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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This is excellent Tyler,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Having been part of the brainstorming I can only say that I was beyond impressed with the quality of ideas presented and now that it will basically be ‘out of my league’ since I’m not much of a coder or statistician – I can’t wait to see the prototype!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Congratulations and best wishes for success HOT!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>=Russ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Tyler Radford [mailto:tyler.radford@hotosm.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 03, 2015 11:29 AM<br><b>To:</b> hot<br><b>Subject:</b> [HOT] HOT awarded Knight Foundation Prototype Fund grant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>HOT was recently awarded support from the Knight Foundation for an OSM data quality analysis tool. Thank you to the many HOT folks who worked on drafting and conceptualizing this idea!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/11/3/20-ideas-receive-support-knight-prototype-fund-media-and-information-projects/">http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/11/3/20-ideas-receive-support-knight-prototype-fund-media-and-information-projects/</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#666666'>Tyler Radford</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#666666'>Executive Director</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#666666'>email: <a href="mailto:tyler.radford@hotosm.org" target="_blank">tyler.radford@hotosm.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#666666'>U.S. mobile: +1 617.285.2009</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#CC0000'>Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:#666666'>Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><a href="http://hotosm.org/" target="_blank">web</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hotosm" target="_blank">twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hotosm" target="_blank">facebook</a> | <a href="http://hotosm.org/donate" target="_blank">donate</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>