[HOT] HOT tutorship program for supporting OSM communities in the developing countries

[Pierre Béland]

I love this idea!

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Pierre 



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> De : Séverin MENARD <severin.menard at gmail.com>
>À : hot at openstreetmap.org 
>Envoyé le : Mercredi 22 août 2012 17h16
>Objet : [HOT] HOT tutorship program for supporting OSM communities in the developing countries
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>Hi,
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>Nicolas and I would like to find ways to facilitate connections between global mappers and new communities in the developing countries. We thought about starting a HOT tutorship program in which active members from the community would make contact with the emergent communities we helped or will help to start: 
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>	* the communities in Haiti and Kenya and the rising one in Senegal
>	* the future ones in the African countries (Cad, Burundi and Central Republic of Africa, as well as Kenya) concerned by the EUROSHA program that will start in October, to support both the program volunteers and the OSM community they will aim for creating
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>Experienced mappers could provide a great support regarding OSM techniques, remote mapping, imagery setting, quality assurance, communication (OSM wikipages, social media, etc.). Of course on a voluntary basis, according to their chosen field and kinship towards such or such country. 
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>Basically, this would be a different approach of what is done so far through OSM lists where the help/advices are often limited to a specific request. Here both sides would be presented, the local communities through their story, members, skills, and project(s) and the tutorsthrough their background and their OSM experience. 
>So far it is a general idea for which we would like that the HOT community provide creative inputs to sketch it in more details. I will create an OSM Wikipage as a starting point so that everyone can contribute. 
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>Sincerely,
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>Severin MENARD
>Current HOT Acting Project Director
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