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Hi all,
This new generation of voting members from such different countries is awesome. It reflects how HOT and involved people enrich each other. Happy to be part of that. About history : From France, I'm 23 and studying general engineering in Nantes (Brittany). I discovered OSM, and more generally open source & open data culture(s) in April 2012. It has been a kind of revelation :) Nico was setting up SENEGAL project and I left France in November for a 6 months field mission in SENEGAL to build an OSM community. It has been a powerful experience and thanks to the deep involvement of many people, it seems that it's working and spreading everywhere around. Currently in my last student year (IT option), I'm going to do my end-of-studies internship from April to September 2014 in IT French Red Cross department doing some data mining. Loving OSM so much because all together we are building something incredibly useful and free. Loving HOT so much because it supports OSM all over the world where it's especially, and still incredibly, useful. Happy new HOT year ! Gus (Augustin Doury)
Jaakko Helleranta.com: Dear all new HOT voting members, FYI all "old" voting members & the HOT community at large,I'm happy to announce that the nominations of and elections for new HOT voting members have resulted in 18 new voting members for HOT! Welcome all! The new voting members list is below. We'll be arranging (first ever) orientations to the new voting members in the next two weeks to make sure that everyone knows what (all things) HOT is, how the organization operates and what is the role of voting members. E.g. we'll be electing a Chair (person) for the organization and a new board in the coming weeks. But we'll contact you separately on all this. .. Should there be "old" voting members who'd like to pitch in to preparing / doing the orientations, please get in contact. So, again, welcome all! And thanks to Boris and Kate for making the nomination/election process happen. If you want you're most welcome to reply with a blurb about you and how you got/are involved with HOT, your HOT story, if you may. I wrote mine at the bottom for a sort of an example. In fact, thinking about it, I think it wouldn't be a bad thing is also some (other) old members also feel inclined to write their HOT story. Good to know who's who in this zoo and where are people coming from :) . Perhaps we could even post these stories someone online - under an About us section at our website? Just a thought.. But now: The new voting members of HOT! *New voting member* Amadou Ndong Andrew Buck Augustin Doury Awa Laye Dia Bass Thiam Claire Halleux Dale Kunce Emir Hartato François-Xavier Lamure Tardieu Jorieke Vynche Maning Sambale Rafael Ávila Coya Russell Deffner Sam Larsen Samuel Paul Alce Stéphane Henriod Will Skora Yohan Boniface That is quite an impressive list, eih!? My "HOT story": Originally from Finland, moved to the US (DC) over 10 years ago. I got involved with HOT during the Haiti earth quake of 2010 and when I lived in Haiti for 3 years. I've done most of my mapping<http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?jaakkoh>in Haiti and Dominican Republic and I've worked in the field with HOT (in Haiti) and pitched into developing some new projects for HOT. Currently living in Nicaragua trying to learn Spanish and getting engaged with the local mapping community (http://mapanica.net). HOT is hot because I think that (it's obvious by now that) Open(Street)Mapping can have a huge positive impact in humanitarian work and making (economic) development work better. http://osm.org/user/jaakkoh & http://about.me/jaakkoh What's your HOT story? With welcoming regards, -Jaakko -- jaa...@helleranta.com * Skype: jhelleranta * Mobile: +505-8845-3391 (Nicaragua) * Voice(mail) / SMS / What's app: +1-202-730-9778 * http://about.me/jaakkoh |
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