[HOT] HOT activities needing volunteers ?

[Mikel Maron]

Jean

I think ideally we could direct this kind of offer towards high volume, low 
intensity tasks, which could be trained online. However, at the moment, I'd say 
someone volunteering with HOT would need to be directly trained and self 
motivated to make a contribution. 


So either some of them could take it apon themselves to get involved, or we wait 
until we're more in position to take on this kind of offer.

Best
Mikel

 == Mikel Maron ==
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From: Jean Millerat <Jean.Millerat at wecena.com>
To: hot at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Sun, August 15, 2010 7:34:53 PM
Subject: [HOT] HOT activities needing volunteers ?

I am considering proposing some French consultancies I work with to donate some 
work time to the HOT activities. But I don't know if such work time could be 
made any useful to the HOT. Would you help me identifying areas (if any) where 
this could be made useful ?

Here are the characteristics of the volunteers (employees) these firms might 
donate. The volunteers would :

1) represent about a couple of full-time equivalents to start with (more later 
if successful)

2) work full-time during a couple of weeks or months, during the period of time 
between two successive customer assignments (which is called "bench time"/"beach 
time" in the services/consulting industry)

3) stop their individual intervention without notice or delay, as soon as they 
are assigned back to some lucrative customer assignment (this would be a lower 
priority assignment for their employer)

4) start without any knowledge about GIS, humanitarian work or OSM

5) speak French and some technical English (no fluency)

6) have the professional skills of an employee of an Information Technology firm 
(for instance : ERP consultant, AS/400 developer, hotline manager, management 
consultant, ... but almost no web developer)

7) be located anywhere in France and be operating remotely

8) be equipped with some specific collaborative tools if needed (issue tracker, 
wiki, mailing list, CMS, ...) which I provide

9) be assisted by me (and you whenever possible) on a daily basis

More information available in French here http://www.wecena.com/apropos
or just ask.

Is some match possible between such volunteers and the real needs and priorities 
of the HOT/OSM community ? Or does it rather deserve a "No thanks" from your 
side ? What do you think ?

Thanks.

-- Jean Millerat
Wecena, rendre vos informaticiens fiers d'améliorer le monde
Jean.Millerat at wecena.com   +33 1 77 455 344  Jean.Millerat at gmail.com

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