<p dir="ltr">Those of you with concerns have you by chance done any research into NGO/Charity presence on LinkedIn. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Considering just about every Red Cross in the world, UNICEF and other UN groups, Habitat for Humanity, USAID, Oxfam, Amnesty international, various health research organisations (cancer, heart) etc etc etc (seriously, there are shedloads) all maintain a presence, indicates that this is a non-issue with the exception of personal misgivings of a select few. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Dave<br>
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1. Ebola Activation : Task for Kindia Prefecture, Guinea<br>
(Pierre Béland)<br>
2. Re: Need Suggestions: Union Mapping (Ahasanul Hoque)<br>
3. Re: Need Suggestions: Union Mapping (Pierre Béland)<br>
4. Re: Need Suggestions: Union Mapping (Mikel Maron)<br>
5. Get Involved - OSM Training Assistant in Tanzania (Jeff Haack)<br>
6. Ebola Outbreak Mapathon, Burlington, VT (noah ahles)<br>
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8. New GitHub repository for HOT Project Ideas (Mhairi O'Hara)<br>
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<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Pierre Béland" <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>><br>To: HOT Openstreetmap <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Cc: <br>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:28:41 +0000 (UTC)<br>Subject: [HOT] Ebola Activation : Task for Kindia Prefecture, Guinea<br><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>I setup a new task for MSF yesterday night. And what a surprise for me this morning. Without any previous announce of the task, there are 16 contributors presently working on it. Thanks to the group that participate to this action.</div><div dir="ltr">See <a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/892" target="_blank">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/892</a><br></div><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,191);font-weight:bold">Pierre <br></span></div></div></div><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Ahasanul Hoque <<a href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a>><br>To: Pete Masters <<a href="mailto:pedrito1414@googlemail.com">pedrito1414@googlemail.com</a>><br>Cc: "<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:01:08 +0600<br>Subject: Re: [HOT] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping<br><div dir="ltr">Many thanks Pierre and Pete for your helpful suggestions. Much appreciated. We already started to draw the features using JOSM as much as possible. I would follow that methods used in Kamrangir char in last Missing Maps Project. Trying to collect some more GPS/androids. Lets see. <br><br><b>Would I get support from HOT (as in Kamrangir Char of Missing maps Project) to upload all the road and major features what will be collected initially by 1/2 GPS holder to track all possible roads and features ?</b><br><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Ahasan</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Pete Masters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pedrito1414@googlemail.com" target="_blank">pedrito1414@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Ahasan, great news, man... Do the volunteers not have their own android phones. In the final days mapping hazaribagh and Kamrangirchar, they were using osmand on their own devices. Also, I think there might some gps units around that Jorieke left the previous time she was there.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In addition to the tracing, the technique that worked well in Kamrangirchar was to send one mapper out for the day on a rickshaw, making sure they go down every road to the end. We gave them a gps unit and a a phone and used the combination of tracks to edit the road network (which HOT helped add) ahead of field mapping with surveys. This worked well there because tracing was hard due to the density of buildings.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Good luck and look forward to hearing how it went....!</p><span><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">Pete</p></font></span><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 9 Feb 2015 21:09, "Pierre Béland" <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div>Hi Ahasan,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">We will be pleased to support you for this action.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I would suggest that you first organize a remote mapping session with your local experienced mappers, trace the map in detail (roads + buildings) and add as much infos as you can. This will greatly facilitate the field work later. There is good Bing and Mapbox imagery available. This should facilitate tracing buildings an roads.<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Infos such as street, locality, neighbourhood names and important infrastructures such as hospitals, etc. will help later people to locate them when doing the field work. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We often prefer to use the JOSM editor since it is possible to work even in the context of bad internet connection. There is also a building plugin that facilitate tracing the buildings.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">In the preparation of the Field work, it would help that you test your field work methodology, including adding the information to OSM later. While some people are mapping some areas, you could alternate and do some field work collection to test your methodology both using phones and paper. Since you only have 3 phones and 1 gps, it will be important to also use FieldPapers. Phones and gps could be used to trace streets and compare with the map made from aerial imagery. There are also questionnaires available that help document the infrastructures.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>1. Phone Android applications such as OsmAnd with an offline map do not require access to internet</div><div dir="ltr"> (If it was possible to have more phones it would help I think)<br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>2. FieldPaper printouts where people can take notes.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">regard<br></div></div><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,191);font-weight:bold">Pierre <br clear="none"></span></div><br clear="none"> <div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">De :</span></b> Ahasanul Hoque <<a href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com" target="_blank">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">À :</span></b> Jorieke Vyncke <<a href="mailto:jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com" target="_blank">jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com</a>>; Pete Masters <<a href="mailto:pedrito1414@googlemail.com" target="_blank">pedrito1414@googlemail.com</a>>; "<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>> <br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Envoyé le :</span></b> Lundi 9 février 2015 13h51<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Objet :</span></b> [HOT] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div><br clear="none"><div><br><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Jorieke/ Pete and all,</div><div>Hope you are fine. I would like to inform you that we (WSP-World Bank) collaboration with CARE Bangladesh has intended to map (house hold level) an union of Nilphamari District named Botlagari starting from end of this month. Though in the OSM data this remote area almost blank. Do you have any suggestion what might help me to finish this union in a easiest way ?. FYI, this union have almos 9000 households. We will have 16 trained local mappers and we have 3 androids and 1 GPS. Looking for your urgent suggestions:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>Please see the union in below umap link: </div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/botlagari-union-of-sayedpur-upazila-of-nilphamari-_28405#13/25.8052/88.8945" target="_blank">https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/botlagari-union-of-sayedpur-upazila-of-nilphamari-_28405#13/25.8052/88.8945</a><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thanks and Regards</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Ahasan<br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.63636302948px"><font color="#76a5af">.....................................................................................</font></span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0)" clear="none"><span style="font-size:13.63636302948px;color:rgb(64,127,0)"><span style="font-weight:bold">Ahasanul Hoque</span></span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0)" clear="none"></font><font style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><b><b><span><b><b><span><span><font color="#6aa84f" size="1">GIS & Environmental Data Mgt Specialist<br clear="none"><span>WSP, </span></font></span></span></b></b></span></b></b></span></font><b style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><b><b><font color="#6aa84f" size="1">The World Bank.</font></b></b></b></b></div><div><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,255,128)"><span style="color:rgb(195,190,113)"><b>Contact: </b></span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;outline:none" target="_blank">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a><span style="color:rgb(195,190,113)">; </span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:ahasan_17@gmail.com" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;outline:none" target="_blank">ahasan_17@yahoo.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(192,255,128)"> <span style="color:rgb(195,190,113)">| </span></span><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,190,113)">Web: </span><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,153,0)"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://ahasanulhoque.com/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;outline:none" target="_blank"><b>ahasanulhoque.com</b></a></span><br clear="none"></div><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(195,190,113);font-size:10px">Skype: </b><span style="font-size:10px"><font color="#3d85c6">ahasan4u | </font></span><b style="color:rgb(195,190,113);font-size:10px">Linkedin: </b><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#3d85c6" size="1"><u><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp</a> </u></font></span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="Trebuchet MS"><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><font><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div>
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<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Pierre Béland" <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>><br>To: Ahasanul Hoque <<a href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: "<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:56:25 +0000 (UTC)<br>Subject: Re: [HOT] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping<br><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Hi Ahasan,</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">As far as you lead the operation and communicate regularly about this action, you should have support from the HOT contributors following this email list and reading the various <a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot.openstreetmap.org</a> Blog updates. We can help you to create Task Manager jobs for remote mapping and invite contributors to participate.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Note that their are key factors for a constant participation of remote contributors to these actions. This is a technical and humanitarian community and we connect through internet and need to know each other, make interesting the volunteer participation. Communication about the objectives and the work done in the field is essential to motivate participants. This is also more fun and motivating for both the remote mappers and field contributors to build together such actions, discuss about methodology and progress, to feel that we are a global community and experimenting interesting new approaches. A broad community follows these discussions and are interested to learn how we build these actions and experiment themselves.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Good communications can be done both from this list and with some Blog updates with pictures. See for example an update about Lubumbashi <a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-04-01_a_week_in_lubumbashi_drc" target="_blank">http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-04-01_a_week_in_lubumbashi_drc</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,191);font-weight:bold">Pierre <br></span></div><br> <div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">De :</span></b> Ahasanul Hoque <<a href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com" target="_blank">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">À :</span></b> Pete Masters <<a href="mailto:pedrito1414@googlemail.com" target="_blank">pedrito1414@googlemail.com</a>> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc :</span></b> Pierre Béland <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>>; "<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>>; Jorieke Vyncke <<a href="mailto:jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com" target="_blank">jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Envoyé le :</span></b> Mercredi 11 février 2015 9h01<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Objet :</span></b> Re: [HOT] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping<br> </font> </div> <div><br><div><div><div dir="ltr">Many thanks Pierre and Pete for your helpful suggestions. Much appreciated. We already started to draw the features using JOSM as much as possible. I would follow that methods used in Kamrangir char in last Missing Maps Project. Trying to collect some more GPS/androids. Lets see. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><b>Would I get support from HOT (as in Kamrangir Char of Missing maps Project) to upload all the road and major features what will be collected initially by 1/2 GPS holder to track all possible roads and features ?</b><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Ahasan</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
<br clear="none"><div><br><br></div><div><div>On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Pete Masters <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:pedrito1414@googlemail.com" target="_blank">pedrito1414@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Ahasan, great news, man... Do the volunteers not have their own android phones. In the final days mapping hazaribagh and Kamrangirchar, they were using osmand on their own devices. Also, I think there might some gps units around that Jorieke left the previous time she was there.</div>
<div dir="ltr">In addition to the tracing, the technique that worked well in Kamrangirchar was to send one mapper out for the day on a rickshaw, making sure they go down every road to the end. We gave them a gps unit and a a phone and used the combination of tracks to edit the road network (which HOT helped add) ahead of field mapping with surveys. This worked well there because tracing was hard due to the density of buildings.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Good luck and look forward to hearing how it went....!</div><span><font color="#888888">
</font></span><div dir="ltr">Pete</div><div><div>
<div>On 9 Feb 2015 21:09, "Pierre Béland" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div>Hi Ahasan,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">We will be pleased to support you for this action.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div>I would suggest that you first organize a remote mapping session with your local experienced mappers, trace the map in detail (roads + buildings) and add as much infos as you can. This will greatly facilitate the field work later. There is good Bing and Mapbox imagery available. This should facilitate tracing buildings an roads.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Infos such as street, locality, neighbourhood names and important infrastructures such as hospitals, etc. will help later people to locate them when doing the field work. <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">We often prefer to use the JOSM editor since it is possible to work even in the context of bad internet connection. There is also a building plugin that facilitate tracing the buildings.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">In the preparation of the Field work, it would help that you test your field work methodology, including adding the information to OSM later. While some people are mapping some areas, you could alternate and do some field work collection to test your methodology both using phones and paper. Since you only have 3 phones and 1 gps, it will be important to also use FieldPapers. Phones and gps could be used to trace streets and compare with the map made from aerial imagery. There are also questionnaires available that help document the infrastructures.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>1. Phone Android applications such as OsmAnd with an offline map do not require access to internet</div><div dir="ltr"> (If it was possible to have more phones it would help I think)<br clear="none"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>2. FieldPaper printouts where people can take notes.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">regard<br clear="none"></div></div><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,191);font-weight:bold">Pierre <br clear="none"></span></div><br clear="none"> <div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">De :</span></b> Ahasanul Hoque <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com" target="_blank">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">À :</span></b> Jorieke Vyncke <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com" target="_blank">jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com</a>>; Pete Masters <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:pedrito1414@googlemail.com" target="_blank">pedrito1414@googlemail.com</a>>; "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>> <br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Envoyé le :</span></b> Lundi 9 février 2015 13h51<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Objet :</span></b> [HOT] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Jorieke/ Pete and all,</div><div>Hope you are fine. I would like to inform you that we (WSP-World Bank) collaboration with CARE Bangladesh has intended to map (house hold level) an union of Nilphamari District named Botlagari starting from end of this month. Though in the OSM data this remote area almost blank. Do you have any suggestion what might help me to finish this union in a easiest way ?. FYI, this union have almos 9000 households. We will have 16 trained local mappers and we have 3 androids and 1 GPS. Looking for your urgent suggestions:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>Please see the union in below umap link: </div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/botlagari-union-of-sayedpur-upazila-of-nilphamari-_28405#13/25.8052/88.8945" target="_blank">https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/botlagari-union-of-sayedpur-upazila-of-nilphamari-_28405#13/25.8052/88.8945</a><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thanks and Regards</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Ahasan<br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.63636302948px"><font color="#76a5af">.....................................................................................</font></span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0)" clear="none"><span style="font-size:13.63636302948px;color:rgb(64,127,0)"><span style="font-weight:bold">Ahasanul Hoque</span></span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0)" clear="none"></font><font style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><b><b><span><b><b><span><span><font color="#6aa84f" size="1">GIS & Environmental Data Mgt Specialist<br clear="none"><span>WSP, </span></font></span></span></b></b></span></b></b></span></font><b style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><b><b><font color="#6aa84f" size="1">The World Bank.</font></b></b></b></b></div><div><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,255,128)"><span style="color:rgb(195,190,113)"><b>Contact: </b></span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;outline:none" target="_blank">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a><span style="color:rgb(195,190,113)">; </span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:ahasan_17@gmail.com" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;outline:none" target="_blank">ahasan_17@yahoo.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(192,255,128)"> <span style="color:rgb(195,190,113)">| </span></span><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,190,113)">Web: </span><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,153,0)"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://ahasanulhoque.com/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;outline:none" target="_blank"><b>ahasanulhoque.com</b></a></span><br clear="none"></div><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(195,190,113);font-size:10px">Skype: </b><span style="font-size:10px"><font color="#3d85c6">ahasan4u | </font></span><b style="color:rgb(195,190,113);font-size:10px">Linkedin: </b><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#3d85c6" size="1"><u><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp</a> </u></font></span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="Trebuchet MS"><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><font><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div>
</div></div></div></div><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">HOT mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>
</div></div></blockquote></div></div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Mikel Maron <<a href="mailto:mikel.maron@gmail.com">mikel.maron@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "Pierre Béland" <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>>, Ahasanul Hoque <<a href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: "<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:14:37 +0000 (UTC)<br>Subject: Re: [HOT] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping<br><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><span>Ahasan</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr">I've added this project area to the HOT Bangladesh overview map at <a href="http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/bangladesh-mapping-projects_26815#8/24.355/89.193" target="_blank">http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/bangladesh-mapping-projects_26815#8/24.355/89.193</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-Mikel</div><div></div><div> </div><div><div>* Mikel Maron * <a href="tel:%2B14152835207" value="+14152835207" target="_blank">+14152835207</a> @mikel s:mikelmaron</div></div> <div><br><br></div><div style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:58 AM, Pierre Béland <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px"> <br><br> <div><div><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Hi Ahasan,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">As far as you lead the operation and communicate regularly about this action, you should have support from the HOT contributors following this email list and reading the various <a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot.openstreetmap.org</a> Blog updates. We can help you to create Task Manager jobs for remote mapping and invite contributors to participate.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Note that their are key factors for a constant participation of remote contributors to these actions. This is a technical and humanitarian community and we connect through internet and need to know each other, make interesting the volunteer participation. Communication about the objectives and the work done in the field is essential to motivate participants. This is also more fun and motivating for both the remote mappers and field contributors to build together such actions, discuss about methodology and progress, to feel that we are a global community and experimenting interesting new approaches. A broad community follows these discussions and are interested to learn how we build these actions and experiment themselves.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Good communications can be done both from this list and with some Blog updates with pictures. See for example an update about Lubumbashi <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-04-01_a_week_in_lubumbashi_drc" target="_blank">http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-04-01_a_week_in_lubumbashi_drc</a><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,191);font-weight:bold">Pierre <br clear="none"></span></div><br clear="none"> <div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">De :</span></b> Ahasanul Hoque <<a href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com" target="_blank">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">À :</span></b> Pete Masters <<a href="mailto:pedrito1414@googlemail.com" target="_blank">pedrito1414@googlemail.com</a>> <br clear="none"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc :</span></b> Pierre Béland <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>>; "<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>>; Jorieke Vyncke <<a href="mailto:jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com" target="_blank">jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com</a>> <br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Envoyé le :</span></b> Mercredi 11 février 2015 9h01<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Objet :</span></b> Re: [HOT] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div><div><br clear="none"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Many thanks Pierre and Pete for your helpful suggestions. Much appreciated. We already started to draw the features using JOSM as much as possible. I would follow that methods used in Kamrangir char in last Missing Maps Project. Trying to collect some more GPS/androids. Lets see. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><b>Would I get support from HOT (as in Kamrangir Char of Missing maps Project) to upload all the road and major features what will be collected initially by 1/2 GPS holder to track all possible roads and features ?</b><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Ahasan</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div><div>On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Pete Masters <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:pedrito1414@googlemail.com" target="_blank">pedrito1414@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Ahasan, great news, man... Do the volunteers not have their own android phones. In the final days mapping hazaribagh and Kamrangirchar, they were using osmand on their own devices. Also, I think there might some gps units around that Jorieke left the previous time she was there.</div>
<div dir="ltr">In addition to the tracing, the technique that worked well in Kamrangirchar was to send one mapper out for the day on a rickshaw, making sure they go down every road to the end. We gave them a gps unit and a a phone and used the combination of tracks to edit the road network (which HOT helped add) ahead of field mapping with surveys. This worked well there because tracing was hard due to the density of buildings.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Good luck and look forward to hearing how it went....!</div><span><font color="#888888">
</font></span><div dir="ltr">Pete</div><div><div>
<div>On 9 Feb 2015 21:09, "Pierre Béland" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div>Hi Ahasan,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">We will be pleased to support you for this action.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div>I would suggest that you first organize a remote mapping session with your local experienced mappers, trace the map in detail (roads + buildings) and add as much infos as you can. This will greatly facilitate the field work later. There is good Bing and Mapbox imagery available. This should facilitate tracing buildings an roads.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Infos such as street, locality, neighbourhood names and important infrastructures such as hospitals, etc. will help later people to locate them when doing the field work. <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">We often prefer to use the JOSM editor since it is possible to work even in the context of bad internet connection. There is also a building plugin that facilitate tracing the buildings.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">In the preparation of the Field work, it would help that you test your field work methodology, including adding the information to OSM later. While some people are mapping some areas, you could alternate and do some field work collection to test your methodology both using phones and paper. Since you only have 3 phones and 1 gps, it will be important to also use FieldPapers. Phones and gps could be used to trace streets and compare with the map made from aerial imagery. There are also questionnaires available that help document the infrastructures.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>1. Phone Android applications such as OsmAnd with an offline map do not require access to internet</div><div dir="ltr"> (If it was possible to have more phones it would help I think)<br clear="none"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>2. FieldPaper printouts where people can take notes.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">regard<br clear="none"></div></div><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,191);font-weight:bold">Pierre <br clear="none"></span></div><br clear="none"> <div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">De :</span></b> Ahasanul Hoque <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com" target="_blank">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">À :</span></b> Jorieke Vyncke <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com" target="_blank">jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com</a>>; Pete Masters <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:pedrito1414@googlemail.com" target="_blank">pedrito1414@googlemail.com</a>>; "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>> <br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Envoyé le :</span></b> Lundi 9 février 2015 13h51<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Objet :</span></b> [HOT] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Jorieke/ Pete and all,</div><div>Hope you are fine. I would like to inform you that we (WSP-World Bank) collaboration with CARE Bangladesh has intended to map (house hold level) an union of Nilphamari District named Botlagari starting from end of this month. Though in the OSM data this remote area almost blank. Do you have any suggestion what might help me to finish this union in a easiest way ?. FYI, this union have almos 9000 households. We will have 16 trained local mappers and we have 3 androids and 1 GPS. Looking for your urgent suggestions:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>Please see the union in below umap link: </div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/botlagari-union-of-sayedpur-upazila-of-nilphamari-_28405#13/25.8052/88.8945" target="_blank">https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/botlagari-union-of-sayedpur-upazila-of-nilphamari-_28405#13/25.8052/88.8945</a><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thanks and Regards</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Ahasan<br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.63636302948px"><font color="#76a5af">.....................................................................................</font></span><br clear="none" style="color:rgb(51,204,0)"><span style="font-size:13.63636302948px;color:rgb(64,127,0)"><span style="font-weight:bold">Ahasanul Hoque</span></span><br clear="none" style="color:rgb(51,204,0)"></font><font style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><b><b><span><b><b><span><span><font color="#6aa84f" size="1">GIS & Environmental Data Mgt Specialist<br clear="none"><span>WSP, </span></font></span></span></b></b></span></b></b></span></font><b style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><b><b><font color="#6aa84f" size="1">The World Bank.</font></b></b></b></b></div><div><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,255,128)"><span style="color:rgb(195,190,113)"><b>Contact: </b></span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:hoque.ahasan@gmail.com" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;outline:none" target="_blank">hoque.ahasan@gmail.com</a><span style="color:rgb(195,190,113)">; </span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:ahasan_17@gmail.com" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;outline:none" target="_blank">ahasan_17@yahoo.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(192,255,128)"> <span style="color:rgb(195,190,113)">| </span></span><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,190,113)">Web: </span><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,153,0)"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://ahasanulhoque.com/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;outline:none" target="_blank"><b>ahasanulhoque.com</b></a></span><br clear="none"></div><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(195,190,113);font-size:10px">Skype: </b><span style="font-size:10px"><font color="#3d85c6">ahasan4u | </font></span><b style="color:rgb(195,190,113);font-size:10px">Linkedin: </b><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#3d85c6" size="1"><u><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp</a> </u></font></span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="Trebuchet MS"><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><font><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div>
</div></div></div></div><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">HOT mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>
</div></div></blockquote></div></div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><br><div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">HOT mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Jeff Haack <<a href="mailto:jeff.haack@gmail.com">jeff.haack@gmail.com</a>><br>To: hot <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Cc: <br>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:32:13 -0600<br>Subject: [HOT] Get Involved - OSM Training Assistant in Tanzania<br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hi All,</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>HOT is beginning a project with the World Bank in Tanzania and there is a junior position available. The position is for three weeks in March-April 2015. Please submit your application by February 23rd. Full details are here:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org/get_involved/openstreetmap_training_assistant_in_tanzania" target="_blank">http://hot.openstreetmap.org/get_involved/openstreetmap_training_assistant_in_tanzania</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>Jeff<br><br></div></div>
<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: noah ahles <<a href="mailto:noah.ahles@gmail.com">noah.ahles@gmail.com</a>><br>To: hot <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Cc: <br>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:06:43 -0500<br>Subject: [HOT] Ebola Outbreak Mapathon, Burlington, VT<br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hi All,</span><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Lab is hosting another OpenStreetMap, mapathon event this Sunday, February 15th from 10AM-4PM in Burlington, VT. Here is the event page:</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://ebolaoutbreakmapping.splashthat.com/" target="_blank">http://ebolaoutbreakmapping.splashthat.com/</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Best,</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Noah</div></div>
<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: nicolas chavent <<a href="mailto:nicolas.chavent@gmail.com">nicolas.chavent@gmail.com</a>><br>To: hot <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Cc: <br>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:16:56 +0100<br>Subject: [HOT] Northeast Nigeria Crisis activation<br><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all, <br><br></div>As discussed in the last Activation Working Group meeting, a short note about this first job (#884) [1] of the Northeast Nigeria Crisis activation that will be coordinated by Rafael and I.<br><br>The
Northeast Nigeria has been affected for years now by a complex
humanitarian crisis fueled by the insurgency of the Boko Haram group
which has gradually gained in intensity and impact affecting over the
past months its neighbouring countries and turning into a regional
crisis (check 6-Feb OCHA Report over the security situation in the State
of Borno [2]).<br>Baseline data (places, residential areas and building
as well as road networks) over this large affected region are needed
for the various actors engaged in the response of this complex regional
emergency. Several OSM initiatives have been lead in some areas (Nigeria
e-Health data import, mapping by local OSM groups from Niger and
Cameroun, as well as the efforts of individual efforts) and individual
efforts are still continuing.<br>Discussions with humanitarian actors
highlighted the relevance of OSM data in this crisis and a continued
effort but stressed at the same time the need to operate in a discrete
mode given the political conflict dimension of this crisis. <br><br>Best, <br>Nico<br><br>[1] <a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/884" target="_blank">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/884</a><br>[2] <a href="http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/borno-state-situation-report-no-2-6-february-2015" target="_blank">http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/borno-state-situation-report-no-2-6-february-2015</a><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Nicolas Chavent<div>Projet OpenStreetMap (OSM)<br>Projet Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)<br></div><div>Projet Espace OSM Francophone (EOF)<br></div><div><div>Mobile (FRA): <a href="tel:%2B33%20%280%296%2052%2040%2078%2020" value="+33652407820" target="_blank">+33 (0)6 52 40 78 20</a><br><a href="mailto:nicolas.chavent@hotosm.org" target="_blank"></a></div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:nicolas.chavent@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicolas.chavent@gmail.com</a><br>Skype: c_nicolas<br>Twitter: nicolas_chavent<br></div></div></div></div>
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<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Mhairi O'Hara" <<a href="mailto:mhairi.ohara@hotosm.org">mhairi.ohara@hotosm.org</a>><br>To: HOT <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Cc: <br>Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:17:10 +0800<br>Subject: [HOT] New GitHub repository for HOT Project Ideas<br><div dir="ltr">Hello hotties,<div><br></div><div>With the onset of the Google Summer of Code and the Outreachy program, we are reaching out to the community to propose project ideas. Most of you probably know about the programs, but for those of you that don't, here is a little information:</div><div><br></div><div><i>'Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. Who have worked with the open source community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer.' </i>[1]</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">'Outreachy is a program that aims to help people from
groups underrepresented in free and open source software get involved. Providing a supportive community for beginning to contribute any time throughout
the year and offer focused internship opportunities twice a year with a number
of free software organizations. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i>The upcoming round of internships is
open to women (cis and trans), trans men and genderqueer people, and all
participants of the Ascend Project regardless of gender '. </i>[2]</span></p></div><div><br></div><div>HOT would like to participate as a free and open source software organisation that will offer internships to both the GSoC [3] and Outreachy [4] program. And in light of all the project ideas being proposed, HOT has decided to create a HOT-Project-Ideas GitHub repository [5] where this can be done, while ensuring that the workflow is organised, structured and efficient. </div><div><br></div><div>A GitHub wiki page for GSoC [6] and Outreachy [7] have been created, containing information on how to propose ideas, while the ideas themselves are listed and can be discussed as issues [8]. So please keep contributing to project ideas at the new GitHub repository. </div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Mhairi</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015" target="_blank">http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/" target="_blank">https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WCPF_cSfIwIPB_KbFKaduyk6iQFrRpFAP4GnqXhtyQ0/edit#" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WCPF_cSfIwIPB_KbFKaduyk6iQFrRpFAP4GnqXhtyQ0/edit#</a><br></div><div>[4] <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GUiycqF14MQ8I5isdNqFmvDt5xgNqOfQacauHHFqv-A/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GUiycqF14MQ8I5isdNqFmvDt5xgNqOfQacauHHFqv-A/edit?usp=sharing</a><br></div><div>[5] <a href="https://github.com/hotosm/HOT-Project-Ideas" target="_blank">https://github.com/hotosm/HOT-Project-Ideas</a><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">[6] </span><a href="https://github.com/hotosm/HOT-Project-Ideas/wiki/GSoC-2015" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">https://github.com/hotosm/HOT-Project-Ideas/wiki/GSoC-2015</a><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">[7] <a href="https://github.com/hotosm/HOT-Project-Ideas/wiki/Outreachy-2015" target="_blank">https://github.com/hotosm/HOT-Project-Ideas/wiki/Outreachy-2015</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">[8] </span><a href="https://github.com/hotosm/HOT-Project-Ideas/issues" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">https://github.com/hotosm/HOT-Project-Ideas/issues</a><br></div></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div>-- </div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Mhairi O'Hara</span><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#888888">Technical Project Manager<br></font><div>Email: <a href="mailto:mhairi.ohara@hotosm.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">mhairi.ohara@hotosm.org</a><br>Indonesian Mobile: <a value="+6282123068370" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">+62 822 4701 1475</a></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><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></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: nicolas chavent <<a href="mailto:nicolas.chavent@gmail.com">nicolas.chavent@gmail.com</a>><br>To: Mark Cupitt <<a href="mailto:markcupitt@gmail.com">markcupitt@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: "HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)" <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 12:25:56 +0100<br>Subject: Re: [HOT] HOT is now on LinkedIn<br><div dir="ltr">Hi Mark, <br><div><br></div><div>Thanks for getting back on this thread but the underlying question which is at steak is about the relevance <i>tout court</i> of a HOT presence in LinkedIn which seems to be implicit and somehow beyond qestion. <br><br></div><div>Well there is nothing neutral for the NGO HOT US Inc to be present on Linkedin, this has been pointed out by Gus in a previous email left un_answered. Paul in his email was questionning the Company page with regard to respect of the OSM trademark. <br><br></div><div>HOT as a project is not a business and HOT as the US NGO incorporated as HOT US Inc is not a business (for a significant part of its members) and according to a majority of its members an organization which is not only working as business. <br><br></div><div>The Linkedin anchorage by overstressing the company/for business side of HOT US Inc is not respectful of the hybrid nature of HOT and its use of business scheme as one of the means towards the achievement of its mandate : apply the principles and practices of OSM and open source and open data in the field of Humanitarian action and economic development. <br><br></div><div>Such decision which has an impact on the image/nature of HOT has to be discussed into a wider audience than the only Communication Working Group. <br><br></div><div>Reading through your points in favour of Linkedin, I still fail to see the gain in audience since after more than 5 years, both the HOT Project and HOT US Inc (the US NGO) are well established entities not only within the OpenSource and OpenData communities but truly within the Hum/Dev actors. The website, the lists and the social media have a real audience. And specific emails (info@hotosm or individual emails) provide avenues for groups who won't engage through public lists. All those tools have proven to establish connection and build relations with an important ecosystem. <br><br></div><div>If I fail to see the benefits for HOT on being in Linkedin, I can see clearly drawbacks in terms of promoting HOT members and contributors of the HOT communities in the work of the Organization. What comes first, the engagement in the HOT work (member/community) proven into continued volunteerism or a solid track records of professionals who did not pay attention to the HOT project and its supporting organizations after 5 years of action (outreach included). <br></div><div>To a certain extent, the same applies to donors and partners where time, understanding are key to build trust in relations. <br><br></div><div>Thanks in advance for your elements about the points above.<br></div><div>Thanks also for your work in the communication group. <br><br>++<br></div><div>Nico<br></div><div> <br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Mark Cupitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markcupitt@gmail.com" target="_blank">markcupitt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Sev, have tried to address some of your concerns in line .. below <div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><span><div><br></div><div>Mark Cupitt</div><div><br></div><div>"If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence"</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mark_Cupitt" target="_blank">See me on Open StreetMap</a><br></div><div><br></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:54 AM, Severin Menard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:severin.menard@gmail.com" target="_blank">severin.menard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear all,<br><br>Sorry for getting back late on this thread.<br><br></div>Linkedin may be a large social media for professionals, what it has achieved by building its audience by emailing systematically personal contact lists, what makes it one of the most spamming site in the OSM talking lists, from my experience of moderator of a few lists. Therefore Linkedin is not very OSM friendly and reading the email title, I thought it was again one of these Linkedin spams slipping through the net from time to time. Linkedin finally got its point, ha!<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I generally turn this off on my LI account. It does have quite good Opt-Out capabilities on your profile for emails. Open Groups are often a source of this type of Spam .. I do not think LI emails would make it through to the HOT lists, and there is no intention of having any LI auto generated em,ails showing up on this List. I am a moderator, so will make sore of that :)</div><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>I have a few (other) concerns:<br></div><div><br></div></div>1. The description of what is HOT in this page is not very clear about what HOT is. As a Board member, I must admit we did not work yet on defining what the HOT project is, what we have planned to after the HOT in Person meeting but did not take the time yet to work on it. In IMHO it does not emphasize enough that HOT the nGO has been created to coordinate and support the free contribution of hundreds (almost thousands) of volunteers, that are the core of the HOT project.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Waiting for the communication Group to define. Open to suggestions and can change at any time. I would suggest that this should mirror what is on the web site</div><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div><div>2. What is exactly the aim of "to reach out and engage with Humanitarian and Mapping Professionals" with this group. Finding new people volunteering among the professionals or publishing positions every time new ones are available? IMHO again, would be good tfor the two cases to drive the people interested either to the OSM lists or HOT website. But for the second case, it would be better to have people volunteering first before applying to positions<br><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span><div>It is intended to be a way to reach an audience we may not already have contact with. The clear aim is NOT to replicate the HOT List or anything else, but provide a way for people who may not be part of the Open Source Community to become aware of what we do, especially in a Humanitarian context and then join our community. It also may provide possible avenues for Sponsorship with organizations who have never heard of HOT, etc</div><span><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>3. Why the Discussion group, where it seems discussions are planned to be done,
rather than simply linking to existing channels? And this is a closed
group (maybe by definition in Linkedin) so it will not help people volunteering to have a clear picture of what happens if there is this group with discussion behind the scenes<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Open Groups are very prone to the Spam you mention above. The closed group is intended to avoid that. It is purely intended to be an Announce Only group and any questions/discussions will be generally redirected to the HOT List. Also, in some organizations, mail lists like the HOT list IRC Channels are not permitted, by corporate policy, so we still have an opportunity to keep in contact with people via this Group It is just another avenue that may or may not be worthwhile. Also, some people are a little shy about asking initial questions on lists that go to a lot of people, so sometimes a small venue to encourage them can be useful.</div><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div><div>A few minor remarks or questions: I think HOT the NGO has been officially created in 2010 and not
2012, and do not understand well the figure of 51-200 employees. Is it the total number of people that have been contracted since the creation of the organization? <br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span><div>I just guessed the Number, am totally open to suggestions. I would guess it could be either Voting Members or All Volunteers. If you have a figure, let me know will adjust it.</div><span><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div></div><div>Sincerely,<br><br>Severin<br></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Mark Cupitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markcupitt@gmail.com" target="_blank">markcupitt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Dear All<div><br></div><div>The Communications Working Group is pleased to announce that HOT now has a presence on LinkedIn. The objective of this move is to further promote HOT's work to the professional and business community world wide and directly engage with people who may be interested in our activities.</div><div><br></div><div>We have two pages, a Company Page and a Discussion Group</div><div><br></div><div>The Company Page is designed to showcase HOT, what it is and highlight key activities that HOT undertakes.</div><div><br></div><div>The company page is at </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanitarian-openstreetmap-team" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanitarian-openstreetmap-team</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you are a LinkedIn Member, please show your support by following the company page and sharing the page to your contacts</div><div><br></div><div>Hot also has a Discussion Group </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6937224&trk=groups_management_edit_group_info-h-dsc" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6937224&trk=groups_management_edit_group_info-h-dsc</a></div><div><br></div><div>This Group is not intended to replace the main Hot List, rather it is intended as a mechanism to reach out and engage with Humanitarian and Mapping Professionals all over the world as well as promoting HOT Activities and events</div><div><br></div><div>Again, please join the group and share it with all your contacts.</div><div><br></div><div>We are excited about this New LinkedIn Presence! </div><div><br></div><div>LinkedIn has a reach that extends to millions of professionals world wide and we look forward to engaging with people from all over the world and showcasing our work.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Mark Cupitt</div><div><br></div><div>"If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence"</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mark_Cupitt" target="_blank">See me on Open StreetMap</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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