Congratulations. :)
On 29 January 2016 at 09:12, Katy Love <klove(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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 <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
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 <laurentius.wiki(a)gmail.com>
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/Wikim…
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