[HOT] Community Working Group kickoff and call for members

[Martin Dittus]

Count me in, I’m up for it as well!

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> On 17 Oct 2015, at 10:39, Justin Temwani Ng'ambi <justinngambi200 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir,
> I totally subscribe to that. I would really be happy to contribute my ideas to the wider community.
> 
> Waiting to discuss this in length at a group level for the sake of progress
> 
> Regards,
> Justin Ng'ambi.
> 
> On Oct 16, 2015 2:27 PM, "Geoffrey Kateregga" <geoffrey.kateregga at hotosm.org> wrote:
> Hi Blake,
> 
> Please count me in, I am part of the community and I think I have something to contribute as well.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Blake Girardot <blake.girardot at hotosm.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> We still need for community members to join the community working group.
> 
> If you even considered it and thought "oh they do not need me." or "I
> do not know what I could contribute" now is the time to reply to me
> and jump in!
> 
> Lets do this! We need YOU, I am not kidding!
> 
> As Heather is fond of saying: "Let's all be awesome together!"
> 
> Cheers,
> Blake
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Blake Girardot
> <blake.girardot at hotosm.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The Community Working Group is going to start have regular projects
> > and meetings and we need you :)
> >
> > This group is going to be working on ways of building our community
> > and will need people who are good at creative fun things to help grow
> > and strengthen the HOT community.
> >
> > I t will also focus on ways of working with partner communities to
> > strengthen our community integration and help support their missions.
> >
> > I imagine it will work closely with the Training WG and the
> > Communications WG to accomplish everyone's goals as well.
> >
> > The working group will follow the typical HOT WG format and be led by
> > two community Co-Chairs. There will also be one Board Member working
> > in the group as well to help with projects and keep the board updated
> > on activities.
> >
> > Everyone has something to contribute to this group because everyone is
> > a member of the HOT community. Besides there will be stickers and
> > badges how can you say no? We need people with a wide diversity of
> > skills (especially language skills) so if you are looking for a good
> > way to build  your real world experience building online communities
> > this is a great opportunity.
> >
> > And I mean real opportunity as HOT's President, Heather Leson will be
> > very involved as the Board member working with the group.
> >
> > If you have not met our President yet, Heather is a pioneer in
> > creating and building this new phenomenon of Digital Humanitarians, a
> > leader in building on line communities and is a sought after speaker
> > at Humanitarian conferences around the world for her expertise and
> > insights into online humanitarian work. Working with her on this is
> > going to be an amazing experience.
> >
> > So if you are at all interested, please contact me as I am helping get
> > it kicked off, and we can talk about it at length. Especially if you
> > have the desire and the capacity for a slightly higher time commitment
> > to be a Co-Chair :)
> >
> > I look forward to speaking with you all more as part of the Community WG !
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Blake
> >
> > --
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Blake Girardot
> > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
> > Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
> > skype: jblakegirardot
> 
> 
> 
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> Blake Girardot
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
> Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
> skype: jblakegirardot
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> Geoffrey Kateregga
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