[HOT] What is a HOT Project

[Kate Chapman]

Hello Everyone,

We are still collecting ideas on "What is a HOT project?" I think this
is especially important so that when activities happen there are clear
guidelines on calling them "HOT" work. Partially because HOT is an
incorporated entity, but there are other development or disaster
response/presentation related work that is not HOT. Clearly we don't
want to take credit for things that aren't ours and we also don't want
to appear to support projects we don't agree (this hasn't been an
issue yet fortunately).

Anyway if you have any input to what was already added by Chris, Harry
and myself it would be great to get it:
https://hackpad.com/HOT-Projects-J05VKUefBoP

If people think it would be useful we can have a realtime meeting.

-Kate

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> So there is often confusion about "what is a HOT project?" Sometimes
> local country level groups say they are HOT or others are local
> chapters of OpenStreetMap or maybe the projects work through another
> organization.
>
> Let's discuss what this really means.
>
> For example "What is required to say you are a HOT project?" HOT is an
> incorporated institution and with this brings us a certain amount of
> liability and some responsibility (especially if we become tax exempt
> in the United States). So it is important to combine supporting
> amazing efforts in OSM with also making sure the organization is in a
> good place. How do we balance this?
>
> Also what would be expected if something was listed as a HOT project?
> Use of the tasking manager? Blogging on the website? Is there
> something else?
>
> I've created a Hackpad here:
> https://hackpad.com/HOT-Projects-J05VKUefBoP to work out some of these
> ideas.
>
> After we have a few ideas down I'll schedule an IRC meeting to discuss
> even more. If you want to discuss on the mailing list or by contacting
> me that is also okay and we'll work to get the information into the
> document.
>
> Best,
>
> -Kate