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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings HOT,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We had a great meeting with a handful of OSM community members to discuss what if anything we wanted to propose for this round of the Knight Prototype Fund. Which in hindsight was basically a mini-meeting of the HOT Fundraising working group, so I’ve added the meeting documents to the FWG wiki-page: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Fundraising">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Fundraising</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We actually had 7 really great ideas and ‘voted’ on priorities, 2 ideas we were able to combine and the resulting top two priority ideas are: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1) An OSM/HOT Quality Assurance Tool (including Humanitarian Data Model improvement)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2) An OSM/HOT Microtasking Tool<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We’ll be drafting applications the rest of the week, so feel free to give us feedback and of course we will keep everyone informed of the progress.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=Russ<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Russell Deffner<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:Russell.Deffner@hotosm.org">Russell.Deffner@hotosm.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://hotosm.org/">http://hotosm.org</a><u><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>