<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Thanks Norman for your help,<br><br>And be sure we are all appreciating what is done by HOT contributors. With the various armed conflicts, we are faced with a complex humanitarian situation in many areas. As you can see with the last email I sent to the list for Mali Activation, humanitarian organizations and OCHA are asking us to collaborate to the logistic of distributing food and services to these persons. They told us yesterday that they greatly appreciate the efforts done by the HOT contributors. A<span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">nd we are</span> <span class="hps">victims of our own</span> <span class="hps">success. </span></span><br><br>We have now three Activations ungoing. I wrote today on the Crisismappers discussion list inviting others to collaborate.<br><br>And as Kate say, we have to
think about training more people to get them to collaborate.<br><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br></span><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Kate Chapman <kate@maploser.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> Norman Rathmann <info@laxmi-reisen.de> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc :</span></b> HOT@openstreetmap.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Vendredi 1 février 2013 14h49<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re:
[HOT] Mali and Syria<br> </font> </div> <br>Hi Norman,<br><br>Yes that is a good point. I think there are lots of people willing to<br>help. Most times there is a new activation someone emails me asking<br>what they can do.<br><br>If we could have some virtual training to help people get started we<br>would very likely increase the number of people helping.<br><br>Best,<br><br>-Kate<br><br>On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Norman Rathmann <<a ymailto="mailto:info@laxmi-reisen.de" href="mailto:info@laxmi-reisen.de">info@laxmi-reisen.de</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Pierre and Joseph<br>><br>> There are 5 Mali and 3 active Syria and 7 waiting Syria jobs and it seems<br>> they are really important<br>><br>><br>> When i am looking daily how many people are mapping for HOT, i guess it will<br>> take a long time<br>><br>> you never thought of making little promotion to get more active mappers?<br>><br>><br>> i am mapping
daily, but sometime it feels hopeless to finished all of this<br>> jobs in a good time<br>> and i think, that the people need this data soon (maybe i am wrong and time<br>> is enough there)<br>><br>> Norman<br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> HOT mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>HOT mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>