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

[Mikel Maron]

This is a great idea. It's essentially what I, and a few others, end up doing a lot of the time. It's really rewarding, but also time consuming when you're spread among several groups. 

Also agree that we should ensure that these mentor discussions fed back into the broader community. OSM diaries by mentors would be a good start. I think we'd also want to have monitoring and curating of those posts, into periodic Summary posts (similar to the OSM summary posts on OpenGeoData), as well as improvements directed to other documentation and processes as fitting.

-Mikel
 
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> From: Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com>
>To: Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> 
>Cc: Séverin MENARD <severin.menard at gmail.com>; hot at openstreetmap.org 
>Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [HOT] HOT tutorship program for supporting OSM communities in the developing countries
> 
>Severin,
>
>I really like this idea.
>
>One thing I'd be interested in seeing is how we would make sure there
>would still be really good information available publicly.  It is easy
>sometimes to answer a question in an email or IM, but not have it make
>it out to others. Meaning that then someone else would have to ask the
>same question later.
>
>It would be great to have some blogs for these types of efforts, which
>could serve as "how tos" for specific topics.
>
>-Kate
>
>On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Severin -
>>
>> this sounds very interesting.
>>
>> How do you see an engagement between a tutor and a community work? Would a tutor travel in country (partly), how long would he/she engage with a community? Are you seeing opportunities to sponsor tutors by development programmes, governments or companies?
>>
>> On Aug 22, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Séverin MENARD <severin.menard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>       • 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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 tutors through 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Severin MENARD
>>> Current HOT Acting Project Director
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