<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>We've received our grant award letter and returned it to Hewlett. <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Now it is time to get into specifics of what we will do over the next year with the support provided towards our Ebola response. As stated before the aim of the grant is to improve our technology and activation capacity. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The HOT Board, activation leads, voting members and myself have begun putting together ideas in a spreadsheet </span>(1). The idea is to get together an idea of what is needed so then priorities can be later ranked and determined what can be done under the umbrella of the $200,000 grant.</div><div><br></div><div>Below is the timeframe of the steps in the consultation. </div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1. Gather initial requirements with activation leads/board (finished)</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2. Consult with voting members (finished)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">3. Consult with community (with live meetings to discuss) (20th October - November 1st)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">4. Rank importance of features with help from tech team and activation team (21st October - 7th November (ongoing as feedback is submitted))</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">5. Create requirements documents for specific items based on importance (7 - 15 November)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">6. Begin putting out HOT Tech Challenges and Contractor requests (15th November until grant money has been allocated)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The community consultations will occur on IRC at the following times. If it is not possible for you to make any of these times please let me know and I'm certainly available to chat at a mutually convenient. time. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-23rd October 2014(2): 3am UTC</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-25th October 2014(3): 6am UTC</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-26th October 2014(4): 3pm UTC</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-29th October 2014(5): 10pm UTC</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-30th October 2014(6):  3pm UTC</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you have any questions please contact me. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Best,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-Kate</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(1) <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vy9Im1jrw9Y1a97OWu29C_L_0BOEDNCPbLpLEVPHWgM/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vy9Im1jrw9Y1a97OWu29C_L_0BOEDNCPbLpLEVPHWgM/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(2) <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Hewlett+Consultation+1+%28%23HOT+on+irc.oftc.net%29&iso=20141022T20&p1=202">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Hewlett+Consultation+1+%28%23HOT+on+irc.oftc.net%29&iso=20141022T20&p1=202</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(3) <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+Hewlett+Grant+Community+Consultation+2&iso=20141024T23&p1=202">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+Hewlett+Grant+Community+Consultation+2&iso=20141024T23&p1=202</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(4) <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+Hewlett+Grant+Community+Consultation+3&iso=20141026T08&p1=202">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+Hewlett+Grant+Community+Consultation+3&iso=20141026T08&p1=202</a></div><div>(5) <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+Hewlett+Grant+Community+Consultation+4&iso=20141029T15&p1=202">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+Hewlett+Grant+Community+Consultation+4&iso=20141029T15&p1=202</a></div><div>(6) <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+Hewlett+Grant+Community+Consultation+5&iso=20141030T08&p1=202">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+Hewlett+Grant+Community+Consultation+5&iso=20141030T08&p1=202</a></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Kate Chapman</span><div><font color="#888888">Executive Director<br></font><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">email: <a href="mailto:kate.chapman@hotosm.org" target="_blank">kate.chapman@hotosm.org</a><br>U.S. mobile: <a value="+17036738834" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">+1 703 673 8834</a><br>Indonesian mobile: <a value="+6282123068370" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">+62 82123068370</a></span></div><div><div><div><div><b style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div><b style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team </b><br></div></div></div><div><font size="1"><font color="#666666" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><div style="display:inline!important">Using OpenStreetMap </div><div style="display:inline!important">for Humanitarian Response </div>& Economic Development</b></font></font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"> </span></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">web</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/hotosm" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">twitter</a> | <a href="http://facebook.com/hotosm" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">facebook</a> | <a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org/donate" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">donate</a></font></div></div></div></div>
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