Pete, Count me in. I'll be happy to pass on learnings from #MapLesotho and to learn from others
Dave > Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:13:19 +0000 > From: Pete Masters<pedrito1...@googlemail.com> > To:"hot@openstreetmap.org" <hot@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: [HOT] HOT Summit panel / talk proposal > Message-ID: > <CABetw9fRdWpUE8939bYUFJ5jk7=kpbbzkgn617jjannrjqn...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi all, > > I'd like to propose a talk or panel for the HOT Summit on the subject of > large scale, virtual mapathons. > > The way the HOT community responds in waves following a crisis, or a > request from an NGO, is incredible. Truly impressive. > > The Missing Maps project obviously benefits from this capacity and > commitment and many of you have contributed to Missing Maps tasks. > > Missing Maps has had considerable success in bringing new people into HOT > via the tasking manager at mapathons. We think that, at the London Missing > Mapathons alone, we have had over 500 people attending and contributing and > the vast majority of these are new to HOT. At a physical event, we are able > to train and support these new mappers in order to try and maintain high > quality data. > > This is great, but we are faced with the problem of scaling this model of > participation. In London, we can't find venues big enough to cope with > demand (last month, 80 places were booked in less than three hours) and we > do not have the capacity within MSF, the British Red Cross and the local > HOT community to significantly increase the number of mapathons we host. > > There are more and more Missing Maps events happening independently of > (although supported by) the organisations involved, which is hugely > welcome. > > But, the fact remains that there is appetite for involvement from many more > places than there are mapathons. One of the potential ways to feed this > appetite (and by extension, expand the capacity of HOT) is to organise > regular, large scale remote mapathons, with training, context, tasking and > support built in. > > I would love to explore this possibility with you guys and thought the > summit might be a good place to start the conversation. Is anyone up for > joining me in presenting this idea for discussion? > > I am not sure yet whether a panel, a talk or a workshop is the most > appropriate and I don't claim to be an expert (although I would love to > share our London experiences with you), so it would be great to collaborate > on this. > > If anyone is interested, please drop me a line. > > Cheers, > > Pete _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
