<div dir="ltr">Kate has been a dear friend and an incredible mentor over the many years we've now known each other. I will miss her at HOT but I'm so excited for her new opportunity! <div>Working with Kate has been incredible. I've learned so much about leadership and dedication, and I hope to carry on her calm, kind demeanor into my own work with HOT. </div><div>Thank you for all of your hard, dedicated work Kate! You've help guide and build HOT into an incredible organization and I couldn't be more proud to work for such an entity.</div><div>All my best wishes,</div><div>Kristen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Alex Barth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@mapbox.com" target="_blank">alex@mapbox.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">Kate thanks for all your hard work and leadership to support and grow the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team. Much luck for the new challenge, I'm glad you're not going far, staying in the open source mapping realm!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Kate Chapman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kate.chapman@hotosm.org" target="_blank">kate.chapman@hotosm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><span><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dear HOT community</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">In January 2010 HOT came to me during a transition period in my life. As I look back over the past 5 years I can’t even imagine where I’d be today without the HOT community. With this in mind it is now time for me to transition again into a different role within HOT. It is time for my time as a paid staff member to end, though I will still be contributing as a volunteer. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I have accepted a position with a new organization (so new it is currently nameless) as their Chief Technology Officer, I’ll be working to build an open-source land rights mapping system. This mean I am stepping down from my Executive Director role at HOT. I will be remaining a participant in the HOT community as both a Voting Member, administrator for the Outreachy internship program, and within the Missing Maps Project and OpenAerialMap. I hope to see many of you at the HOT Summit as well. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I will assist the Board of Directors of HOT in both a handover plan and documentation of my role at the organization. The Board will be following up with instructions and next steps in the next day. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">If you have any questions or just even want to talk please contact me directly. The Board is also available to answer questions as needed, they can be reached at </span><a href="mailto:board@hotosm.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">board@hotosm.org</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">. To keep in touch with me personally, please update your address book for </span><a href="mailto:kate@maploser.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">kate@maploser.com</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The HOT community is strong and I can’t wait to see what we will do in the future.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Thank you,</span></p><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">-Kate</span></span><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><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></div>
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