Congrats to WMI and Simone! Glad to hear of your recognition and will be excited to see what comes next.
Katy On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 4:51 AM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations Lorenzo, congratulations Wikimedia Italia. It was indeed a > long process, and I recall that this question came up - was it more than > five years ago? I'm curious what the coming years will bring, and I trust > that you will report back about whether it is a satisfying construction or > not. > > Best, > Lodewijk > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Laurentius <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dear all, > > after a long process, today Wikimedia Italia has been officially > > recognized as the Italian OpenStreetMap chapter! > > > > OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project that shares the same value as > > the Wikimedia movement. It's not based on a wiki software and it's not > > in the Wikimedia family, but from many points of views, it's the project > > that is more similar to the Wikimedia ones; indeed, many wikipedians are > > mappers also, and viceversa. > > > > Similarly to Wikimedia, there is an OpenStreetMap Foundation (based in > > the UK) and there are national OpenStreetMap chapters. In Italy, the > > OpenStreetMap community has been talking for years about the creation of > > a chapter. Most people felt that it was important, but also that > > founding yet another association was pointless. Associations are not > > built only on projects, but also, and mainly, on common values and on a > > common vision: Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap share both, and it's just > > natural to work together. > > > > Wikimedia Italy officially started the process of becoming an > > OpenStreetMap chapter in 2013 [1]. The association has supported > > OpenStreetMap even before that (e.g., supporting the Italian > > OpenStreetMap conference), and in the last two years, thanks also to the > > work of many OpenStreetMap users that became members (and among them, > > Simone Cortesi, OpenStreetMap volunteer since the beginning and WMI's > > vicepresident), we have increased our efforts (as described also in > > WMI's annual plan [2]). The recognition process has been quite long, but > > today we've signed the chapters agreement, and now Italy is the second > > country (after Iceland) to have an official OpenStreetMap chapter! (but > > there are actually other unofficial chapters besides these two) > > > > Lorenzo > > > > [1] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-July/127304.html > > [2] > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/Wikimedia_Italia/Proposal_form#OpenStreetMap > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
