[HOT] 1st Activation Working Group meeting report

[Fran Boon]

On 16 March 2012 13:36, Séverin MENARD <severin.menard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Soory I missed this chat but will be present to the next one.
> Remote response apart, what should be our potential ground deployment ?  I
> think a ground team who would activate and train quickly the local
> communities, could drive the HOT remote support, provide imagery feedbacks
> (precise GPS coordinates, interpretation, etc.) or even imagery itself taken
> by a drone (some tests are ongoing in Haiti) would make sense. IMHO HOT's
> kind of uniqueness is to be able to provide coordinated ground and remote
> response.

Hi Severin,

What you outline sounds great, however it requires an essential
element which remote support doesn't: $
A remote support can be done using relatively little volunteer time to
set up & then it's up to the community how much they're able to engage
in the actual work - as HOT we cannot be responsible for that - we
just set up the infrastructure and make the call (being careful not to
abuse this so we don't get volunteer fatigue).

Ground support would either require HOT to have it's own funds or else
to have the requesting Organisation sponsor it (even if the time was
all donated).
I agree that we should have a clause in about this and this can start
by saying 'As HOT has no funds of it's own, a ground support request
would require the requesting organisation to find funds for this'
What else do we need to define around this?
* Role descriptions (I know Kate has done this)
* Being sure we don't send people out uninsured?
* Being sure that people we send out are suitably qualified?
* Being sure that people we send out are suitably equipped? (which
might not require very much)

Anything else?

F


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>> Hello Team,
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>> Today we had the first meeting of the HOT Activation Working Group on the
>> IRC channel.  The meeting lasted an hour. Pierre Beland, Fran Boon, Andrew
>> Buck, Robert Banick, Harry Wood, and I participated.
>>
>> The stated objective of the working group is to develop a strategy and
>> tactics for optimally allocating HOT's resources in response to humanitarian
>> crisis. We noted that humanitarian crises range quite widely in severity and
>> in level of international response, and that HOT's response should be
>> commensurate with the degree to which our services will be used by
>> responders on the ground.
>>
>> The substance of the discussion today revolved around identifying HOT's
>> possible responses to crisis (including documenting data sources, acquiring
>> imagery, setting up volunteer tasking services, and mobilizing volunteers),
>> and working backwards to identify the triggers for those activities.
>>
>> We also discussed at length the distinction between "activation", and
>> simply responding to requests made by partner organizations. We agreed (I
>> believe) that prompt and reliable response to partner inquiries should be a
>> priority for HOT and should be taken up as a subject for discussion and
>> recommendation by the working group.
>>
>> I think that the working group members agreed to start documenting some of
>> these ideas on the OSM wiki for further discussion. We also agreed after
>> talking for an hour to pick up the discussion again one week from today, at
>> 14:00 UTC on Thu 22 Mar 2012.
>>
>> The IRC log for today's meeting is here:
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>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OpenStreetMap_Team/Activation_Working_Group_22_Mar_2012
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>> Hope to see those of you who are interested in the subject on #hot next
>> Thursday! I'll send out a reminder a couple days ahead of time. Cheers!
>>
>> SDE
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