Pete, Thanks for all your efforts to make Missing Maps a great resource and congratulations on your new job.
Best, Clifford Snow On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Pete Masters <pedrito1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello all, I hope you are well... > > Apologies for using the mailing list to send a personal message, but I > feel like (and hope) it isn't inappropriate. > > My time as coordinator for Missing Maps at MSF is coming to an end - last > week I accepted a new position within MSF working on innovation process and > how we better approach field problems and opportunities. I wanted to let > this community know personally for a few different reasons.... > > Firstly, to say thanks for the education. It has been an absolute pleasure > to work with such a varied bunch of dedicated, passionate and clever > people. I have been an MSF fanboy for a long time and I am now a HOT and > OSM fanboy too. My job over the past two and a half years has been to try, > as much as possible, to find the overlaps and opportunities between these > two (very different) organisations and communities. As I hope you have > noticed, I have tried to connect the dots between what the HOT and Missing > Maps community can do for MSF and the impact that that volunteering has on > real people (both our staff in the field and our patients). What you > probably don't know is that I also evangelise HOT / OSM within MSF - not > just for the mapping, but for the principles of openness and teamwork and > sharing that make mapping and collaborating on such a scale possible. > > Secondly, because you should know that what you have accomplished during > this past two and a half years through HOT activations and Missing Maps > projects is pretty unprecedented in MSF. Operational people and medical > people within MSF now *expect* to be able to rely on Missing Maps and HOT > to deliver data for decision making in the places we work. The quality of > your work and the dedication you show (often at very short notice) has > taken the project from a suspiciously viewed, disruptive, unorthodox and > often misunderstood project in MSF into a tool that the people delivering > aid on the ground value and want. That's huge. > > Thirdly, I appreciate that there are massive challenges ahead. Discussion > started by Fred on validation is high up that list. As is the scale of the > supply and demand from organisations like MSF. As is how we leverage the > data these organisations are collecting on the ground as part of their > day-to-day to enrich the OSM database (but including how we do that in a > resposible and sustainable way). I have no doubt that together we (I fully > intend to stay a part of the HOT community despite the change in day job) > can address these challenges and whatever comes after. I would like to > offer this opportunity to feed back to me any thoughts you may have on the > future of Missing Maps and MSF or any other feedback you may have. > > Lastly, there is going to be a very cool job available at MSF UK. Not an > easy job by any means (the phrase jack of all trades doesn't do it > justice), but a massively fulfilling one. Knowing the talent available > amongst you, I'd strongly encourage you to take a look when the job is > advertised. > > That's it really. It's not goodbye by any means and I look forward to > continuing these discussions beyond the end of my MSF Missing Maps job... > Apologies for the lack of brevity! > > Cheers, > > Pete > > > -- > *Pete Masters* > Missing Maps Project Coordinator > +44 7921 781 518 <+44%207921%20781518> > > missingmaps.org <http://www.missingmaps.org/> > > *@pedrito1414* <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps> > *@theMissingMaps* <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps> > *facebook.com/MissingMapsProject* > <https://www.facebook.com/MissingMapsProject> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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