[HOT] HOT 2013 Board Election Results--Congratulation from OSM/OpenDRI Nepal Community

[Nama Budhathoki]

Hi,

I am writing this from Nepal. First of all, I would like to congratulate
the newly elected HOT team members and the HOT community as a whole.
Second, I am taking this opportunity to introduce some humanitarian OSM
works we have started here in Nepal.

As many of you are aware, Nepal is at high risk from earthquakes. Please
have a look at this report:
http://nepalitimes.com/news.php?id=16720#.UPn-fOh8OpI. Unfortunately, we do
not have online maps for preparedness or rescue works in case we are hit by
an earthquake.

With The World Bank's support under its Open Data for Resilience Initiative
(OpenDRI), we are aggressively expanding OSM Nepal community to collect
major POIs and urban structural data including building footprints. We have
started this from Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. We reach out to
schools, colleges, and community groups to talk about and train them in
OSM. Since other sources of GIS data are difficult to find, expensive to
buy, and often outdated here in Nepal, people get excited when we talk
about OSM.

One major hindrance has been existing images, which makes it too difficult
to digitize building footprints. We are working to get better resolution
images and hoping to have those soon for Kathmandu Valley. Once we have
that, we will seek your help with tasks that can be done remotely including
digitizing building footprints. If you are interested to come to the ground
or are coming to Nepal for any other purpose, lets know so that we can
organize a mapping meetup and exchange our learning. For those who are
thinking to go for vacation, Nepal has great hiking/trekking sites. Here,
you can take mapping and hiking together!

Congratulations once again. We look forward to work together and help each
other.

Nama
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Nama R. Budhathoki




On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Dane Springmeyer <dane at dbsgeo.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> The HOT board election voting period has ended and I'm pleased to present
> the results:
>
> 35      Schuyler Erle
> 30      Mikel Maron
> 28      Harry Wood
> 27      Nicolas Chavent
> 25      John Crowley
> 24      Pierre Béland
> 21      Joseph Reeves
> 18      Heather Leson
> 18      Severin Menard
> 9       Jean-Guilhem Cailton
> 9       Todd Huffman
>
> I would like to welcome newly elected members Pierre Béland and Joseph
> Reeves to the board.
>
> So the board now consists of:
>
> Schuyler Erle
> Mikel Maron
> Harry Wood
> Nicolas Chavent
> John Crowley
> Pierre Béland
> Joseph Reeves
>
> Thanks to everyone that voted and ran for election!
>
> I regret that I could not continue serving, but I'm heartened to see a
> great crew of leaders here.
>
> Dane
>
>
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