- 08-20, 09:30–10:30, Workshops and Loop-Cinema - Room 103
- 08-20, 16:30–17:30, Online Workshops
All times in Europe/Rome
Across OpenStreetMap there are ways to get involved from working groups to events to boards. How can we increase and deepen participation across the world? What is the current state of engagement/governance in OSM? What do we need to do to improve? What are some of the lessons from other open organizations?
In person hosts - session 9:30 CEST - Kate Chapman, Allan Mustard, Geoffrey Kateregga, Chad Blevins, and Miriam Gonzalez
Online/Virtual Session hosts - 4:30 CEST - Heather Leson and special guest, Liz Barry, Community Council Member, GOSH (Gathering Open Science Hardware) and
Director of Community Development, Public Lab
https://publiclab.org/wiki/plots-staff
https://openhardware.science/
Proposed Outcomes
-Inspire people to join and play a more significant role in OSM - working groups, boards, governance
-Engage a larger discussion about diversity, equity, and inclusion with a shared leadership approach
-Infuse the OSM network with insights from other ‘open projects’ on their insights
Notes
We want to make this as accessible and inclusive as possible. Thus - calling it ‘governance’ won’t build participation. For years, there have been sessions on ‘working groups’ and ‘meet the board’ or ‘weeklyosm’. These are valuable, but we need to go broader and deeper.
How can we learn about our shared network and build momentum in participation /engagement and leadership?
engagement, community, leadership, governance,
Workshop requirements –no requirements. we will have sticky notes and online shared notes.
we will have two events - one online and one in person. The online one has to be later in the cest timezone as kate is in pst/ the other one can be during the daytime in cest.
Subtitle –How can we increase and deepen participation across the world?
We are a group of people
Heather Leson is driven by a world where everyone lends a hand. At the intersection of social impact, strategy, technology, and open principles, she delivers innovative products and experiences with global networks. As an Open Ambassador (Red Hat), Heather writes and advocates for open organizational values to support governance shifts and strategic global community engagement. A leader in the open space: she has represented and worked for many open organizations including serving as the Board Member of both the OpenStreetMap Foundation (2 years) and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (4 years).
Geoffrey Kateregga is the Community Manager at the Open Mapping Hub for Eastern and Southern Africa. He is an active member of the OpenStreetMap Africa community - a network of local OpenStreetMap communities from all over Africa organizing the State of the Map Africa conference and joining hands to share resources and collaborate to grow and produce a complete and well-detailed map of Africa on OpenStreetMap in order to advance the quality, completeness and sustainability of geospatial data in Africa.
Chad is the Social Sector Industry Lead within Locana and has been applying OSM data to development and humanitarian challenges for over the past decade. As a co-founder of YouthMappers, Chad’s work focusing on leveraging the latest technology, creating partnerships, and building scalable geospatial capacity within the development industry and local communities.
