<div dir="ltr">Hello :)<div><br><div>We are very excited to invite you to the Humanitarian Open Mapping Community Working Group's (WG) upcoming webinar: <b style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><a href="http://bit.ly/CommunitySept3" target="_blank">Local OSM community building: Tips, tricks and challenges on 03 September</a>, 06:00 UTC / 16:00 UTC.</b><br></div></div><div><b style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><br></b></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><b style="box-sizing:inherit">Goal: </b>The webinar aims to provide a space for local OSM communities to share tips, tricks and challenges related to starting and sustaining local OSM communities, and </span><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">to inform contributions to an </span><a href="https://loomio.hotosm.org/d/kIZ1C4GP/building-an-openstreetmap-community-guide-playbook" style="font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures" target="_blank">OSM Community Building Playbook</a><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">.</span><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"> We have invited various local community leaders/members as </span><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">speakers and participants</span><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"> from different OSM local </span>communities<span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><b>Language: </b>The main language of the event is <u>English</u>. Although this webinar will be presented in English, we will be supporting ‘non-English’ language webinars on OSM community building over the remainder of 2021. We are open for collaborations :)</span></div><div><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"> </span><br></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><b style="box-sizing:inherit">Format: </b>The webinar will take place in two time blocks, the earlier block focusing on STARTING LOCAL COMMUNITIES and the later block focusing on SUSTAINING LOCAL COMMUNITIES.</span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><b>RSVP: <a href="http://bit.ly/CommunitySept3" target="_blank">bit.ly/CommunitySept3</a> </b>(please feel free to share :)</span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">If you have any questions, clarifications or comments, please let me know. We hope that you can join us!</span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">bumabati (regards),</span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Arnalie</span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Chair, </span><a href="http://bit.ly/communitywg" target="_blank">Humanitarian Open Mapping Community WG</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="lt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