[HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

Mon Mar 9 16:59:16 UTC 2015

Hi everyone
I work with Jorieke for three weeks in a country in West Africa on OSM.
I can tell you that his method of working with local communities is
impressive. It has easy contact with communities and is very attentive and
passionate about his work.
I think that HOT gain much to have person like in CA

forgive all sins (excusez toutes fautes)

2015-03-09 15:06 GMT+00:00 Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com>:

>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is great news! Thank you so much for running for Board member Jorieke!
>
> Jorieke is exactly the kind of person I think we will be lucky to have sit
> on our Board. She is an enthusiastic supporter of local OSM communities and
> backs up her talk with action and field work!
>
> Her on the ground experience empowering local groups and helping build
> capacities around the world will be priceless to HOT as we work to increase
> out support and encouragement of local HOT and OSM groups.
>
> One does not need to work with Jorieke for very long to appreciate her
> dedication, enthusiasm and professionalism.
>
> Jorieke I look forward to seeing you on the HOT Board and working with you
> to help make your vision for HOTs priorities a reality whether I am on the
> Board or not.
>
> It is my pleasure to nominate Jorieke Vyncke for the Humanitarian
> OpenStreetMap Team Board of Directors.
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
>
> On 3/9/2015 11:12 AM, Jorieke Vyncke wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> After seeing all the discussions, mails and reflecting a long time, I
>> finally decided.
>>
>> To run.
>>
>> Not to run away, but to run for the board.
>>
>>
>> In my eyes the heart of HOT is the community, not the board. Because in
>> the community, that’s where things are happening: all the remote
>> volunteers mapping for an ebola task, people on a Missing Maps Mapathon,
>> data collection with motorbikes by the Togolese OSM-community,
>> translating LearnOSM into Indonesian, giving a presentation on a
>> conference, coding to improve the Tasking Manager, … and this to work
>> towards our common goal of humanitarian aid and local development
>> everywhere in the world.
>>
>>
>> This is what the board in my eyes needs to facilitate, to support and to
>> make decisions towards.
>>
>>
>> How would I try to work towards this as a board member?
>>
>>   * We need to support local OSM-communities in every way we can. This,
>>     by among others setting up projects to support and create local OSM
>>     communities everywhere in the world. Big budget, but also very low
>>     budget.
>>
>>   * We need to support individual and group projects popping up in our
>>     HOT-community. Some magnificent examples: MapLesotho, Missing Maps,
>>     Projet EOF, Mapazonia, … This we can do by sharing the tools we
>>     made, exchanging ideas and sharing advice, knowledge and experiences.
>>
>>   * We need to give the membership and the broader HOT community a
>>     bigger voice by more transparency and the creation of discussion on
>>     the direction and vision of HOT. Democracy is more than a yearly
>>     election.
>>
>>   * We need to outreach more towards atypical mapper profiles, like
>>     mine. In addition to the development of tools and software, we need
>>     to stimulate and support the organization of social mapping events.
>>     In this way we can create a bigger diversity in our community.
>>
>> My vision on what direction the board has to go, flows directly out of
>> my experiences of volunteering remotely, but most important out of my
>> experiences of going and mapping on the field. I did several field trips
>> the last three years, to build and support local OSM communities in the
>> Central African Republic, Cameroun, Senegal, DRC and Bangladesh [1].
>> This resulted also in a good knowledge of the field of humanitarian and
>> development organizations: big international NGOs and local
>> universities, organisations of the UN-system and small local
>> associations …. Isn’t this an advantage to have in the board too?
>> Further I will be based in Africa the next one or two years. I’m leaving
>> in a big week for Mali to work as a GIS officer for the Belgian
>> Development Agency. So I’ll have the opportunity not only being a HOT
>> volunteer, but also using the data we create and giving feedback from a
>> user side.
>>
>>
>> Now you know a little bit more what you will get if I’m elected. :-)
>>
>>
>> I know I’m a little late with presenting myself, but you still have some
>> time to ask me everything you want (the last day of the election is the
>> 27^th of march). Also after the election I’m open for discussions,
>> questions and just chatting, because this is how we move forward!
>>
>>
>> Jorieke
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] More on my OSM profile <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jorieke%20V
>> >
>>
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Fofana B. Bazo,
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