Well done, all! It is really impressive to see such excellent
collaboration between free knowledge open source communities. Everyone
should take a bow.
Risker/Anne
On 28 January 2016 at 23:16, Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/Wikim…
> >
> >
> >
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