[HOT] HOT activities needing volunteers ?

[Jean Millerat]

I am considering proposing some French consultancies I work with to 
donate some work time to the HOT activities. But I don't know if such 
work time could be made any useful to the HOT. Would you help me 
identifying areas (if any) where this could be made useful ?

Here are the characteristics of the volunteers (employees) these firms 
might donate. The volunteers would :

1) represent about a couple of full-time equivalents to start with (more 
later if successful)

2) work full-time during a couple of weeks or months, during the period 
of time between two successive customer assignments (which is called 
"bench time"/"beach time" in the services/consulting industry)

3) stop their individual intervention without notice or delay, as soon 
as they are assigned back to some lucrative customer assignment (this 
would be a lower priority assignment for their employer)

4) start without any knowledge about GIS, humanitarian work or OSM

5) speak French and some technical English (no fluency)

6) have the professional skills of an employee of an Information 
Technology firm (for instance : ERP consultant, AS/400 developer, 
hotline manager, management consultant, ... but almost no web developer)

7) be located anywhere in France and be operating remotely

8) be equipped with some specific collaborative tools if needed (issue 
tracker, wiki, mailing list, CMS, ...) which I provide

9) be assisted by me (and you whenever possible) on a daily basis

More information available in French here http://www.wecena.com/apropos
or just ask.

Is some match possible between such volunteers and the real needs and 
priorities of the HOT/OSM community ? Or does it rather deserve a "No 
thanks" from your side ? What do you think ?

Thanks.

-- 
Jean Millerat
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