<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448931842527_137413"></span>I started to contribute to the OSM project with the Haiti Earthquake in jan. 2010. I was pleased last week to be in Port-au-Prince and contribute from the field, organizing training sessions.<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448931842527_137462" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448931842527_137463" dir="ltr">I am quite proud of what we have built collectively including the humanitarian responses like for Haiyan, Ebola and Nepal.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448931842527_137466" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448931842527_137579" dir="ltr">But at the same time, many of you are aware of constant fights inside HOT to control the Board and HOT orientations. For the last three elections at HOT, it was not possible to discuss orientations, people from the majority of the Board have preferred to constantly make libellous statements against people that dont share their orientations, and in particular against the french community and projects to develp the OSM local communities in Africa.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448931842527_138038" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448931842527_138074" dir="ltr">I am not on the FOSM discussion and cannot follow all the discussions. But let me say that from the experience of the last three years at HOT, I am not confident that providing more power to people closed to the HOT Board would contribute to a sane development of FOSM. Diversity is an important factor of success of OSM. Let's maintain this. Both HOT and FOSM can work independantly while collaborating for the success of OSM.<br></div><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448931842527_137399"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448931842527_137601" dir="ltr">regard <br></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448931842527_137398" class="signature"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"> <br><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </font><br></span></div></div></body></html>