Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

[Hazel]

Hello, all,

I think this is a really good point. Anything that helps data quality 
gets my vote, too.


Why not make the interface deliberately flexible and run controlled 
trials, as described here?

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-with-randomised-controlled-trials

Accuracy, speed, and volunteer retention are quantifiable. Are there any 
other characteristics people want?


All the best,
Hazel

On 2015-03-08 23:05, john whelan wrote:
I would much prefer to see an officially approved method.  People can 
give
more thought to it but the basic idea of a workflow for simple tasks 
using
JOSM I think is good.  JOSM is easier than some people it credit for 
but
more to the point we get less area=yes instead of buildings=yes, 
highways

that almost meet, and duplicate buildings and anything that helps data
quality get my vote.

Cheerio John

On 8 March 2015 at 18:51, althio  wrote:


John, Ray,

I think the quick start guide is a very neat idea. I would need to try 
the

workflow and a few variations for myself.

For the time being I only have reservations about the trick "
upload-and-cancel". It would be IMO simpler and better to guide people 
to
use consciously validation instead of faking an upload. (Validation 
window

and/or Shift+V)

I would say this particular aspect of the workflow is not intended for
beginners (and idiots) because it is error-prone. (What if I am still
trying to figure out what needs to be mapped? I am a beginner and do 
not

know or understand the differences between projects and their
instructions... What if I upload bad data? I am an idiot...)

I think you must learn to walk before you can run. This kind of tricks 
is

for people who want to map faster, understand the pros and cons, the
purpose and risks.


Anyway John, I fully agree your post is a nice starting point for this
kind of guide with an "approved" and proposed workflow for simple 
tasks.

Thank you Nick for safekeeping the idea.


althio


On Mar 7, 2015 8:43 AM, "Ray Kiddy"  wrote:



John -

Wow. That was actually an amazing help.

I am not sure how adding a plugin can be made intuitive for someone
doing it the first time without this level of detail.

I also think part of my problem is going from slippy maps, like what 
we

have been using on the web for years, and the iPhone and so on, to
JOSM. The navigation is ... different. I guess control-arrow makes
sense for moving in the map, but I seem to keep looking for a "grab"
tool of some kind. My hands know slippy maps.

And your "hit-update-but-dont" workflow is brilliant, but the fact 
that

it has to be done that way, or is easier done that way Well, it
suggests something is off, but I do not know what. We will see.

I think that, at this point, I can go to the JOSM resources and get
where I need to go.

It is certainly daunting at first but, OMG, for buildings, JOSM is
fantastic.

Well, onward and upward.

- ray


On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 18:30:59 -0500
john whelan  wrote:

> Right the basic idiot guide.
>
> First write down your OSM userid and password.
>
> For task 917 we only care about highways, settlements and buildings.
> Buildings if only because if there is one in isolation sometimes we
> like to map it rather than call it a landuse=residential.
>
> Start JOSM up, in the edit menu you'll find preferences down the
> bottom.
>
> We need to allow HOT to remotely control JOSM to feed it the bit to
> map. So look for the remote control, usually second button up on the
> left. Click enable remote control, ignore the rest.
>
> Now we need to add a plugin, fourth tile down is the plugin button.
> Download the list.  Look for buildings_tool they're in alphabetical
> order, click it and ignore the rest.
>
> go to http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/917
>
> Read the instructions.
>
> Click on a tile, click on start mapping, select edit with JOSM.
>
> Switch back to JOSM and you'll find its pulled in the existing OSM
> map for the tile.
>
> We want to look at the imagery so look across the top, File, Edit etc
> until you reach Imagery, for this one we will be using Bing so select
> Bing.
>
> Now we need to trace over the image.  We'll use two buttons directly
> under file, the top one is select, the second one is draw nodes.
> Hover the mouse over them to display the tags.
>
> Zoom in to the image, generally speaking I zoom so that roughly 90
> meters shows on the scale.  Personally I start at the top right
> corner and use  to scan the image.
>
> The following is not the official way to do things but its fast.  Draw
> round each settlement but don't tag it.  If you're lucky enough to
> find a road joining settlements draw the highway in again don't tag
> it.  As you go draw round each settlement you see on the road.  Stick
> to one type of highway omit the others for the moment.
>
> The upload button is the fourth button from the left near Tools.
>
> When you upload JOSM will give you a warning, cancel the upload.  On
> 

Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

[Heather Leson]

HI Kate, thank you very much for all your dedication.

The first time I really understood the potential of HOT was viewing your
video right after the Haiti earthquake. Your efforts to build the
organization and support the community have been inspiring. HOT has become
a successful digital humanitarian community and organization under your
leadership. We have humanitarian and technology partners. The community and
membership are strong and talented. Staff hired are doing great work. We
are established with successful programmes and partnerships in many places,
including, to name just one, the long standing Indonesia project.

There will always be more to do - more activities to improve, more
conversations to have, more decisions to collaborate, more plans to create
and more maps to make. But now we have the basis to grow. Thank you for
your determination to make a difference and for constantly being an
advocate for HOT's mission around the world.

You will be missed. But you leave us in a position to grow. Truly I want to
congratulate you on your new role. They are lucky to have you. And, I'm
delighted that you will be active in HOT to mentor, share and create in the
future.




For my fellow members, I am consulting with my fellow board members and
membership chair. We will be respond soon on plans and ask for help.


Thanks again,

Heather


Heather Leson
heatherle...@gmail.com
Twitter: HeatherLeson
Blog: textontechs.com

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Kate Chapman 
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Something that was pointed out to me is I did not put the date this change
> is effective in my previous email. My last day working full-time for HOT
> will be April 10th.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Kate
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Kate Chapman 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear HOT community
>>
>> In January 2010 HOT came to me during a transition period in my life. As
>> I look back over the past 5 years I can’t even imagine where I’d be today
>> without the HOT community. With this in mind it is now time for me to
>> transition again into a different role within HOT. It is time for my time
>> as a paid staff member to end, though I will still be contributing as a
>> volunteer.
>>
>> I have accepted a position with a new organization (so new it is
>> currently nameless) as their Chief Technology Officer, I’ll be working to
>> build an open-source land rights mapping system. This mean I am stepping
>> down from my Executive Director role at HOT. I will be remaining a
>> participant in the HOT community as both a Voting Member, administrator for
>> the Outreachy internship program, and within the Missing Maps Project and
>> OpenAerialMap. I hope to see many of you at the HOT Summit as well.
>>
>> I will assist the Board of Directors of HOT in both a handover plan and
>> documentation of my role at the organization. The Board will be following
>> up with instructions and next steps in the next day.
>>
>> If you have any questions or just even want to talk please contact me
>> directly. The Board is also available to answer questions as needed, they
>> can be reached at bo...@hotosm.org. To keep in touch with me personally,
>> please update your address book for k...@maploser.com.
>>
>> The HOT community is strong and I can’t wait to see what we will do in
>> the future.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> -Kate
>>
>> --
>> Kate Chapman
>> Executive Director
>> email: kate.chap...@hotosm.org
>> U.S. mobile: +1 703 673 8834
>> Indonesian mobile: +62 82123068370
>>
>> *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team *
>> *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development*
>> web  | twitter 
>>  | facebook  | donate
>> 
>>
>
>
>
> --
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> Executive Director
> email: kate.chap...@hotosm.org
> U.S. mobile: +1 703 673 8834
> Indonesian mobile: +62 82123068370
>
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> *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development*
> web  | twitter 
>  | facebook  | donate
> 
>
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[HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

[Jorieke Vyncke]

Hi all,


After seeing all the discussions, mails and reflecting a long time, I
finally decided.

To run.

Not to run away, but to run for the board.


In my eyes the heart of HOT is the community, not the board. Because in the
community, that’s where things are happening: all the remote volunteers
mapping for an ebola task, people on a Missing Maps Mapathon, data
collection with motorbikes by the Togolese OSM-community, translating
LearnOSM into Indonesian, giving a presentation on a conference, coding to
improve the Tasking Manager, … and this to work towards our common goal of
humanitarian aid and local development everywhere in the world.


This is what the board in my eyes needs to facilitate, to support and to
make decisions towards.


How would I try to work towards this as a board member?


   - We need to support local OSM-communities in every way we can. This, by
   among others setting up projects to support and create local OSM
   communities everywhere in the world. Big budget, but also very low budget.


   - We need to support individual and group projects popping up in our
   HOT-community. Some magnificent examples: MapLesotho, Missing Maps, Projet
   EOF, Mapazonia, … This we can do by sharing the tools we made, exchanging
   ideas and sharing advice, knowledge and experiences.


   - We need to give the membership and the broader HOT community a bigger
   voice by more transparency and the creation of discussion on the direction
   and vision of HOT. Democracy is more than a yearly election.


   - We need to outreach more towards atypical mapper profiles, like mine.
   In addition to the development of tools and software, we need to stimulate
   and support the organization of social mapping events. In this way we can
   create a bigger diversity in our community.

My vision on what direction the board has to go, flows directly out of my
experiences of volunteering remotely, but most important out of my
experiences of going and mapping on the field. I did several field trips
the last three years, to build and support local OSM communities in the
Central African Republic, Cameroun, Senegal, DRC and Bangladesh [1]. This
resulted also in a good knowledge of the field of humanitarian and
development organizations: big international NGOs and local universities,
organisations of the UN-system and small local associations …. Isn’t this
an advantage to have in the board too? Further I will be based in Africa
the next one or two years. I’m leaving in a big week for Mali to work as a
GIS officer for the Belgian Development Agency. So I’ll have the
opportunity not only being a HOT volunteer, but also using the data we
create and giving feedback from a user side.


Now you know a little bit more what you will get if I’m elected. :-)


I know I’m a little late with presenting myself, but you still have some
time to ask me everything you want (the last day of the election is the 27th
of march). Also after the election I’m open for discussions, questions and
just chatting, because this is how we move forward!


Jorieke



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Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

[Harry Wood]

Many people will know that Kate has been at the core of the Humanitarian 
OpenStreetMap Team from the beginning, doing a very professional job of 
building the organisation as a whole, and particularly the side of the 
organisation which does things like giving staff contracts and salaries, 
negotiating funding via grant proposals, and presenting a professional face to 
partners and funders. i.e. the organised bit of the organisation! There are so 
many of us (myself included) enjoying spare-time volunteering for HOT, which is 
hugely valuable of course, but Kate's contribution has been on another level.


You may be thinking "well she was paid to do all of this", but we didn't pay 
her anywhere near enough, and we treated her badly in lots of other ways. 
Despite this she stuck at it for as long as this, and she performed the 
Executive Director role with dedication, passion, and professionalism.

These will be big shoes to fill, and we will need to have a conversation about 
how to manage a difficult transition, since Kate will be moving on to a new 
full time job elsewhere.

Despite that, I feel happy that for my friend Kate. Happy that she will looking 
after herself for a change. She deserves it.  Thank you Kate, for all your hard 
work!

Harry


From: Heather Leson 
To: Kate Chapman  
Cc: "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
Sent: Monday, 9 March 2015, 9:25
Subject: Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship



HI Kate, thank you very much for all your dedication. 

The first time I really understood the potential of HOT was viewing your video 
right after the Haiti earthquake. Your efforts to build the organization and 
support the community have been inspiring. HOT has become a successful digital 
humanitarian community and organization under your leadership. We have 
humanitarian and technology partners. The community and membership are strong 
and talented. Staff hired are doing great work. We are established with 
successful programmes and partnerships in many places, including, to name just 
one, the long standing Indonesia project. 


There will always be more to do - more activities to improve, more 
conversations to have, more decisions to collaborate, more plans to create and 
more maps to make. But now we have the basis to grow. Thank you for your 
determination to make a difference and for constantly being an advocate for 
HOT's mission around the world. 


You will be missed. But you leave us in a position to grow. Truly I want to 
congratulate you on your new role. They are lucky to have you. And, I'm 
delighted that you will be active in HOT to mentor, share and create in the 
future. 






For my fellow members, I am consulting with my fellow board members and 
membership chair. We will be respond soon on plans and ask for help.



Thanks again,


Heather 

 



Heather Leson
heatherle...@gmail.com
Twitter: HeatherLeson 
Blog: textontechs.com




On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Kate Chapman  wrote:

Hi All,
>
>
>Something that was pointed out to me is I did not put the date this change is 
>effective in my previous email. My last day working full-time for HOT will be 
>April 10th. 
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>-Kate
>
>
>On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Kate Chapman  wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Dear HOT community
>>
>>In January 2010 HOT came to me during a transition period in my life. As I 
>>look back over the past 5 years I can’t even imagine where I’d be today 
>>without the HOT community. With this in mind it is now time for me to 
>>transition again into a different role within HOT. It is time for my time as 
>>a paid staff member to end, though I will still be contributing as a 
>>volunteer. 
>>
>>I have accepted a position with a new organization (so new it is currently 
>>nameless) as their Chief Technology Officer, I’ll be working to build an 
>>open-source land rights mapping system. This mean I am stepping down from my 
>>Executive Director role at HOT. I will be remaining a participant in the HOT 
>>community as both a Voting Member, administrator for the Outreachy internship 
>>program, and within the Missing Maps Project and OpenAerialMap. I hope to see 
>>many of you at the HOT Summit as well. 
>>
>>I will assist the Board of Directors of HOT in both a handover plan and 
>>documentation of my role at the organization. The Board will be following up 
>>with instructions and next steps in the next day. 
>>
>>If you have any questions or just even want to talk please contact me 
>>directly. The Board is also available to answer questions as needed, they can 
>>be reached at bo...@hotosm.org. To keep in touch with me personally, please 
>>update your address book for k...@maploser.com. 
>>
>>The HOT community is strong and I can’t wait to see what we will do in the 
>>future.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>-Kate
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>
>>Kate Chapman
>>Executive Director
>>
>>email: kate.chap...@hotosm.org
>>U.S. mobile: +1 703 673 8834
>>Indonesian mobile: +62 82123068370
>>
>>
>>Humanit

Re: [HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

[Blake Girardot]

Hi everyone,

This is great news! Thank you so much for running for Board member Jorieke!

Jorieke is exactly the kind of person I think we will be lucky to have 
sit on our Board. She is an enthusiastic supporter of local OSM 
communities and backs up her talk with action and field work!


Her on the ground experience empowering local groups and helping build 
capacities around the world will be priceless to HOT as we work to 
increase out support and encouragement of local HOT and OSM groups.


One does not need to work with Jorieke for very long to appreciate her 
dedication, enthusiasm and professionalism.


Jorieke I look forward to seeing you on the HOT Board and working with 
you to help make your vision for HOTs priorities a reality whether I am 
on the Board or not.


It is my pleasure to nominate Jorieke Vyncke for the Humanitarian 
OpenStreetMap Team Board of Directors.


Cheers,
Blake

On 3/9/2015 11:12 AM, Jorieke Vyncke wrote:

Hi all,


After seeing all the discussions, mails and reflecting a long time, I
finally decided.

To run.

Not to run away, but to run for the board.


In my eyes the heart of HOT is the community, not the board. Because in
the community, that’s where things are happening: all the remote
volunteers mapping for an ebola task, people on a Missing Maps Mapathon,
data collection with motorbikes by the Togolese OSM-community,
translating LearnOSM into Indonesian, giving a presentation on a
conference, coding to improve the Tasking Manager, … and this to work
towards our common goal of humanitarian aid and local development
everywhere in the world.


This is what the board in my eyes needs to facilitate, to support and to
make decisions towards.


How would I try to work towards this as a board member?

  * We need to support local OSM-communities in every way we can. This,
by among others setting up projects to support and create local OSM
communities everywhere in the world. Big budget, but also very low
budget.

  * We need to support individual and group projects popping up in our
HOT-community. Some magnificent examples: MapLesotho, Missing Maps,
Projet EOF, Mapazonia, … This we can do by sharing the tools we
made, exchanging ideas and sharing advice, knowledge and experiences.

  * We need to give the membership and the broader HOT community a
bigger voice by more transparency and the creation of discussion on
the direction and vision of HOT. Democracy is more than a yearly
election.

  * We need to outreach more towards atypical mapper profiles, like
mine. In addition to the development of tools and software, we need
to stimulate and support the organization of social mapping events.
In this way we can create a bigger diversity in our community.

My vision on what direction the board has to go, flows directly out of
my experiences of volunteering remotely, but most important out of my
experiences of going and mapping on the field. I did several field trips
the last three years, to build and support local OSM communities in the
Central African Republic, Cameroun, Senegal, DRC and Bangladesh [1].
This resulted also in a good knowledge of the field of humanitarian and
development organizations: big international NGOs and local
universities, organisations of the UN-system and small local
associations …. Isn’t this an advantage to have in the board too?
Further I will be based in Africa the next one or two years. I’m leaving
in a big week for Mali to work as a GIS officer for the Belgian
Development Agency. So I’ll have the opportunity not only being a HOT
volunteer, but also using the data we create and giving feedback from a
user side.


Now you know a little bit more what you will get if I’m elected. :-)


I know I’m a little late with presenting myself, but you still have some
time to ask me everything you want (the last day of the election is the
27^th of march). Also after the election I’m open for discussions,
questions and just chatting, because this is how we move forward!


Jorieke



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Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

[Denis Carriere]

Hey Ahasanul,

Here's an example of a project that was created during an OpenData
hackathon in Canada at CODE [1].

http://ecotrust-canada.github.io/hypochondriapp/

It shows you regional wide statistical data from a country using boundary
files, you could replicate this type of application for BBS.

Cheers,

[1]: http://open.canada.ca/en/blog/code-2015-top-15-apps

*~~*

*Twitter: @DenisCarriere*
*GitHub: DenisCarriere*

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Ahasanul Hoque 
wrote:

> Hello dear Mappers,
> Hope you all are doing great. I need a kind suggestion from you guyz.
>
> Last week I facilitated a OSM training at Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
> (BBS) which is the is the only national Statistical institution responsible
> for collecting, compiling and disseminating statistical data of all the
> sectors of the Bangladesh economy to meet and provide the data-needs of the
> users and other stake holders  like national level planners and other
> agencies of the Govt. Under the auspices of the computer wing of BBS, a
> development project entitled *"Strengthening Capacity of BBS in
> Population and Demographic Data Collection Using GIS"* is being
> implemented. The objective is to prepare digital enumeration area maps for
> conducting various censuses and surveys, aiming to reduce non-sampling
> errors.
>
> I introduced them with OSM, now they want to do a piloting. In that case
> some issues arise like, *How should the House/building draw: rectangle or
> as a point ? *since, In JOSM based task mapping each households mapping
> is difficult.and during field paper mapping to draw the exact shape is
> difficult. That is why people are suggesting to map the households as point
> not rectangle.
>
> Would you please suggest me *what should I do in this case from their
> experience (if have) ? It is very important for OSM, if we can make it
> successful then whole Bangladesh will be mapped in future by BBS.*
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Ahasan
>
> .
> Ahasanul Hoque
>
> *GIS & Data Mgt SpecialistWSP, **The World Bank.*
> MSc in RS and GIS | AIT, Thailand. MSc. in Env. Science| KU, Bangladesh.
> *Diploma in Disaster Mgt & Humanitarian Response* |
> Uni of Hawai-USA, UNU, Keio& Okayama - Japan; AIT-Thailand*.*
> *Contact: *hoque.aha...@gmail.com; ahasan...@yahoo.com
>  | Web: *ahasanulhoque.com*
> 
> *Skype: *ahasan4u | *Linkedin: **http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp
>  *
>
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Re: [HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

[FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA]

Hi everyone
I work with Jorieke for three weeks in a country in West Africa on OSM.
I can tell you that his method of working with local communities is
impressive. It has easy contact with communities and is very attentive and
passionate about his work.
I think that HOT gain much to have person like in CA

forgive all sins (excusez toutes fautes)

2015-03-09 15:06 GMT+00:00 Blake Girardot :

>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is great news! Thank you so much for running for Board member Jorieke!
>
> Jorieke is exactly the kind of person I think we will be lucky to have sit
> on our Board. She is an enthusiastic supporter of local OSM communities and
> backs up her talk with action and field work!
>
> Her on the ground experience empowering local groups and helping build
> capacities around the world will be priceless to HOT as we work to increase
> out support and encouragement of local HOT and OSM groups.
>
> One does not need to work with Jorieke for very long to appreciate her
> dedication, enthusiasm and professionalism.
>
> Jorieke I look forward to seeing you on the HOT Board and working with you
> to help make your vision for HOTs priorities a reality whether I am on the
> Board or not.
>
> It is my pleasure to nominate Jorieke Vyncke for the Humanitarian
> OpenStreetMap Team Board of Directors.
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
>
> On 3/9/2015 11:12 AM, Jorieke Vyncke wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> After seeing all the discussions, mails and reflecting a long time, I
>> finally decided.
>>
>> To run.
>>
>> Not to run away, but to run for the board.
>>
>>
>> In my eyes the heart of HOT is the community, not the board. Because in
>> the community, that’s where things are happening: all the remote
>> volunteers mapping for an ebola task, people on a Missing Maps Mapathon,
>> data collection with motorbikes by the Togolese OSM-community,
>> translating LearnOSM into Indonesian, giving a presentation on a
>> conference, coding to improve the Tasking Manager, … and this to work
>> towards our common goal of humanitarian aid and local development
>> everywhere in the world.
>>
>>
>> This is what the board in my eyes needs to facilitate, to support and to
>> make decisions towards.
>>
>>
>> How would I try to work towards this as a board member?
>>
>>   * We need to support local OSM-communities in every way we can. This,
>> by among others setting up projects to support and create local OSM
>> communities everywhere in the world. Big budget, but also very low
>> budget.
>>
>>   * We need to support individual and group projects popping up in our
>> HOT-community. Some magnificent examples: MapLesotho, Missing Maps,
>> Projet EOF, Mapazonia, … This we can do by sharing the tools we
>> made, exchanging ideas and sharing advice, knowledge and experiences.
>>
>>   * We need to give the membership and the broader HOT community a
>> bigger voice by more transparency and the creation of discussion on
>> the direction and vision of HOT. Democracy is more than a yearly
>> election.
>>
>>   * We need to outreach more towards atypical mapper profiles, like
>> mine. In addition to the development of tools and software, we need
>> to stimulate and support the organization of social mapping events.
>> In this way we can create a bigger diversity in our community.
>>
>> My vision on what direction the board has to go, flows directly out of
>> my experiences of volunteering remotely, but most important out of my
>> experiences of going and mapping on the field. I did several field trips
>> the last three years, to build and support local OSM communities in the
>> Central African Republic, Cameroun, Senegal, DRC and Bangladesh [1].
>> This resulted also in a good knowledge of the field of humanitarian and
>> development organizations: big international NGOs and local
>> universities, organisations of the UN-system and small local
>> associations …. Isn’t this an advantage to have in the board too?
>> Further I will be based in Africa the next one or two years. I’m leaving
>> in a big week for Mali to work as a GIS officer for the Belgian
>> Development Agency. So I’ll have the opportunity not only being a HOT
>> volunteer, but also using the data we create and giving feedback from a
>> user side.
>>
>>
>> Now you know a little bit more what you will get if I’m elected. :-)
>>
>>
>> I know I’m a little late with presenting myself, but you still have some
>> time to ask me everything you want (the last day of the election is the
>> 27^th of march). Also after the election I’m open for discussions,
>> questions and just chatting, because this is how we move forward!
>>
>>
>> Jorieke
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] More on my OSM profile > >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

[Heather Leson]

Merci Fofana.

Jorieke, Thank you for you dedication to local communities. And welcome as
a fellow nominee.

Heather
On Mar 9, 2015 8:01 PM, "FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA" 
wrote:

> Hi everyone
> I work with Jorieke for three weeks in a country in West Africa on OSM.
> I can tell you that his method of working with local communities is
> impressive. It has easy contact with communities and is very attentive and
> passionate about his work.
> I think that HOT gain much to have person like in CA
>
> forgive all sins (excusez toutes fautes)
>
> 2015-03-09 15:06 GMT+00:00 Blake Girardot :
>
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> This is great news! Thank you so much for running for Board member
>> Jorieke!
>>
>> Jorieke is exactly the kind of person I think we will be lucky to have
>> sit on our Board. She is an enthusiastic supporter of local OSM communities
>> and backs up her talk with action and field work!
>>
>> Her on the ground experience empowering local groups and helping build
>> capacities around the world will be priceless to HOT as we work to increase
>> out support and encouragement of local HOT and OSM groups.
>>
>> One does not need to work with Jorieke for very long to appreciate her
>> dedication, enthusiasm and professionalism.
>>
>> Jorieke I look forward to seeing you on the HOT Board and working with
>> you to help make your vision for HOTs priorities a reality whether I am on
>> the Board or not.
>>
>> It is my pleasure to nominate Jorieke Vyncke for the Humanitarian
>> OpenStreetMap Team Board of Directors.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Blake
>>
>> On 3/9/2015 11:12 AM, Jorieke Vyncke wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> After seeing all the discussions, mails and reflecting a long time, I
>>> finally decided.
>>>
>>> To run.
>>>
>>> Not to run away, but to run for the board.
>>>
>>>
>>> In my eyes the heart of HOT is the community, not the board. Because in
>>> the community, that’s where things are happening: all the remote
>>> volunteers mapping for an ebola task, people on a Missing Maps Mapathon,
>>> data collection with motorbikes by the Togolese OSM-community,
>>> translating LearnOSM into Indonesian, giving a presentation on a
>>> conference, coding to improve the Tasking Manager, … and this to work
>>> towards our common goal of humanitarian aid and local development
>>> everywhere in the world.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is what the board in my eyes needs to facilitate, to support and to
>>> make decisions towards.
>>>
>>>
>>> How would I try to work towards this as a board member?
>>>
>>>   * We need to support local OSM-communities in every way we can. This,
>>> by among others setting up projects to support and create local OSM
>>> communities everywhere in the world. Big budget, but also very low
>>> budget.
>>>
>>>   * We need to support individual and group projects popping up in our
>>> HOT-community. Some magnificent examples: MapLesotho, Missing Maps,
>>> Projet EOF, Mapazonia, … This we can do by sharing the tools we
>>> made, exchanging ideas and sharing advice, knowledge and experiences.
>>>
>>>   * We need to give the membership and the broader HOT community a
>>> bigger voice by more transparency and the creation of discussion on
>>> the direction and vision of HOT. Democracy is more than a yearly
>>> election.
>>>
>>>   * We need to outreach more towards atypical mapper profiles, like
>>> mine. In addition to the development of tools and software, we need
>>> to stimulate and support the organization of social mapping events.
>>> In this way we can create a bigger diversity in our community.
>>>
>>> My vision on what direction the board has to go, flows directly out of
>>> my experiences of volunteering remotely, but most important out of my
>>> experiences of going and mapping on the field. I did several field trips
>>> the last three years, to build and support local OSM communities in the
>>> Central African Republic, Cameroun, Senegal, DRC and Bangladesh [1].
>>> This resulted also in a good knowledge of the field of humanitarian and
>>> development organizations: big international NGOs and local
>>> universities, organisations of the UN-system and small local
>>> associations …. Isn’t this an advantage to have in the board too?
>>> Further I will be based in Africa the next one or two years. I’m leaving
>>> in a big week for Mali to work as a GIS officer for the Belgian
>>> Development Agency. So I’ll have the opportunity not only being a HOT
>>> volunteer, but also using the data we create and giving feedback from a
>>> user side.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now you know a little bit more what you will get if I’m elected. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> I know I’m a little late with presenting myself, but you still have some
>>> time to ask me everything you want (the last day of the election is the
>>> 27^th of march). Also after the election I’m open for discussions,
>>> questions and just chatting, because this is how we move forward!
>>>
>>>
>>> Jorieke
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] More

[HOT] 907 Malawi Floods 2015

[Andrew Patterson]

I currently working in Task 241 and would welcome some advice about tagging
or even plotting a feature.

Running more or less across the middle of the Task square is a very wide
and meandering feature, which if it had been full of water, I would have
identified as a river.  Having followed the discussion on Wadis and looking
at the JOSM reference, it would appear that I should be using the tag
waterway = river; intermittent = yes.  However, I notice that it some
places the bed of this feature is under cultivation, and assume therefore
that its inundation is very intermittent.

Given the reason for the mapping it feels as though this feature ought to
be highlighted, not least because if the area is flooded, this feature
could be considerably deeper than the surrounding area.

Is it valid to tag it both in terms of an intermittent waterway, and also
under cultivation ?

As an aside - I was curious that in the Wadi debate the word "Donga" never
came up.  I had been familiar with this work in South Africa - the
dictionary gives its definition as a washed out gulley and its origin as
Afrikaans but borrowed from a pre-bantu source.


Andrew



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Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

[Ahasanul Hoque]

wow!!! its an amazing app Denis.
Thank you very much for the links. I have decided that we will go for point
data for households.

Take care

Ahasan



On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Denis Carriere 
wrote:

> Hey Ahasanul,
>
> Here's an example of a project that was created during an OpenData
> hackathon in Canada at CODE [1].
>
> http://ecotrust-canada.github.io/hypochondriapp/
>
> It shows you regional wide statistical data from a country using boundary
> files, you could replicate this type of application for BBS.
>
> Cheers,
>
> [1]: http://open.canada.ca/en/blog/code-2015-top-15-apps
>
> *~~*
>
> *Twitter: @DenisCarriere*
> *GitHub: DenisCarriere*
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Ahasanul Hoque 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello dear Mappers,
>> Hope you all are doing great. I need a kind suggestion from you guyz.
>>
>> Last week I facilitated a OSM training at Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
>> (BBS) which is the is the only national Statistical institution responsible
>> for collecting, compiling and disseminating statistical data of all the
>> sectors of the Bangladesh economy to meet and provide the data-needs of the
>> users and other stake holders  like national level planners and other
>> agencies of the Govt. Under the auspices of the computer wing of BBS, a
>> development project entitled *"Strengthening Capacity of BBS in
>> Population and Demographic Data Collection Using GIS"* is being
>> implemented. The objective is to prepare digital enumeration area maps for
>> conducting various censuses and surveys, aiming to reduce non-sampling
>> errors.
>>
>> I introduced them with OSM, now they want to do a piloting. In that case
>> some issues arise like, *How should the House/building draw: rectangle
>> or as a point ? *since, In JOSM based task mapping each households
>> mapping is difficult.and during field paper mapping to draw the exact shape
>> is difficult. That is why people are suggesting to map the households as
>> point not rectangle.
>>
>> Would you please suggest me *what should I do in this case from their
>> experience (if have) ? It is very important for OSM, if we can make it
>> successful then whole Bangladesh will be mapped in future by BBS.*
>>
>> Thanks in Advance.
>>
>> Ahasan
>>
>> .
>> Ahasanul Hoque
>>
>> *GIS & Data Mgt SpecialistWSP, **The World Bank.*
>> MSc in RS and GIS | AIT, Thailand. MSc. in Env. Science| KU, Bangladesh.
>> *Diploma in Disaster Mgt & Humanitarian Response* |
>> Uni of Hawai-USA, UNU, Keio& Okayama - Japan; AIT-Thailand*.*
>> *Contact: *hoque.aha...@gmail.com; ahasan...@yahoo.com
>>  | Web: *ahasanulhoque.com*
>> 
>> *Skype: *ahasan4u | *Linkedin: **http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp
>>  *
>>
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Re: [HOT] 10 Years of OSM + HOT?

[James Conkling]

Hey Mikel et al,

Glad to see there's work being done on a TM API.  I've been trying to load
the tasks.json file into an external app so I can monitor the progress of
some HOT projects (the API docs
 suggest
this should be exposed now, even though the rest of the API has not yet
been implemented), but am running into issues with Cross Origin
requests--requesting as jsonp hasn't worked either.  Am I barking up the
wrong tree here, or is this something I should be able to do at this point?
 (code is here
,
in case anyone's interested)

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Mikel Maron  wrote:

> Sam
>
> Some additions to the OSMTM API are in staging, and hopefully will deploy
> soon. Once live, this would allow to grab data on a list of projects.
> https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/wiki/API has a few details.
>
> -Mikel
>
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
>
>   On Friday, March 6, 2015 1:52 PM, Sam Libby  wrote:
>
>
>
>   Hi all, wanted to share this great visualization of ten years of OSM
> edits: https://www.mapbox.com/ten-years-openstreetmap/ in case people had
> not seen it on social media.
>
> A question  for the group – is there an available dataset/API in json,
> geojson, shapefile, etc that shows the locations of all historical and
> current HOT tasks – ideally with dates of creation? I know it’s available
> per-task  as geojson but
> thought it might be available as a big chunk as well.  I think it would be
> a really interesting overlay to add to the 10-year map or other OSM
> visualizations – especially in W. Africa during the Ebola epidemic, you can
> clearly see in the time-based visualization where there were big impacts
> from the HOT community.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
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Re: [HOT] 10 Years of OSM + HOT?

[Mikel Maron]

Huh I had thought that CORS was enabled for the OSMTM api ... is that not the 
case Drazen or Pierre? * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron 

 On Monday, March 9, 2015 1:36 PM, James Conkling 
 wrote:
   
 

 Hey Mikel et al,
Glad to see there's work being done on a TM API.  I've been trying to load the 
tasks.json file into an external app so I can monitor the progress of some HOT 
projects (the API docs suggest this should be exposed now, even though the rest 
of the API has not yet been implemented), but am running into issues with Cross 
Origin requests--requesting as jsonp hasn't worked either.  Am I barking up the 
wrong tree here, or is this something I should be able to do at this point?  
(code is here, in case anyone's interested)
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Mikel Maron  wrote:

Sam
Some additions to the OSMTM API are in staging, and hopefully will deploy soon. 
Once live, this would allow to grab data on a list of projects. 
https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/wiki/API has a few details.
-Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron 

 On Friday, March 6, 2015 1:52 PM, Sam Libby  wrote:
   
 

  Hi all, wanted to share this great visualization of ten years of OSM 
edits:https://www.mapbox.com/ten-years-openstreetmap/ in case people had not 
seen it on social media.    A question  for the group – is there an available 
dataset/API in json, geojson, shapefile, etc that shows the locations of all 
historical and current HOT tasks – ideally with dates of creation? I know it’s 
availableper-task as geojson but thought it might be available as a big chunk 
as well.  I think it would be a really interesting overlay to add to the 
10-year map or other OSM visualizations – especially in W. Africa during the 
Ebola epidemic, you can clearly see in the time-based visualization where there 
were big impacts from the HOT community.    Thanks, Sam 
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Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

[Alex Barth]

Kate thanks for all your hard work and leadership to support and grow the
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team. Much luck for the new challenge, I'm glad
you're not going far, staying in the open source mapping realm!

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Kate Chapman 
wrote:

>
> Dear HOT community
>
> In January 2010 HOT came to me during a transition period in my life. As I
> look back over the past 5 years I can’t even imagine where I’d be today
> without the HOT community. With this in mind it is now time for me to
> transition again into a different role within HOT. It is time for my time
> as a paid staff member to end, though I will still be contributing as a
> volunteer.
>
> I have accepted a position with a new organization (so new it is currently
> nameless) as their Chief Technology Officer, I’ll be working to build an
> open-source land rights mapping system. This mean I am stepping down from
> my Executive Director role at HOT. I will be remaining a participant in the
> HOT community as both a Voting Member, administrator for the Outreachy
> internship program, and within the Missing Maps Project and OpenAerialMap.
> I hope to see many of you at the HOT Summit as well.
>
> I will assist the Board of Directors of HOT in both a handover plan and
> documentation of my role at the organization. The Board will be following
> up with instructions and next steps in the next day.
>
> If you have any questions or just even want to talk please contact me
> directly. The Board is also available to answer questions as needed, they
> can be reached at bo...@hotosm.org. To keep in touch with me personally,
> please update your address book for k...@maploser.com.
>
> The HOT community is strong and I can’t wait to see what we will do in the
> future.
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Kate
>
> --
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> Executive Director
> email: kate.chap...@hotosm.org
> U.S. mobile: +1 703 673 8834
> Indonesian mobile: +62 82123068370
>
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> *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development*
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>  | facebook  | donate
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[HOT] Executive Director transition plans

[Harry Wood]

Dear Hotties, 

With Kate’s announcement, we have a busy few weeks ahead and we very much want 
to ask for your help in pursuing next steps. And, we want to assure you that 
the HOT Board is here to make this transition go well. 

First off, Kate, from all of the current board members, let me say thank you 
very much again, for all your years of leadership with HOT. We have grown to a 
sustainable and productive organisation that is globally recognised on the 
delivery of quality mapping projects for humanitarian and economic development. 
We truly wish you well in your new job.

Fellow Members: 
The timing of Kate's changes and the Board nominations are unfortunately 
coinciding. The original close of nominations was scheduled for midnight UTC 
today (in a few hours time). We talked about this with our advisors and Russell 
as Membership Chair. Our thinking is that it may be best to extend the Board 
nomination period in light of the changes. The intention of that is simply to 
allow time for this news to reach people, allow time for other candidates to 
step forward, and to give the opportunity for current candidates to consider 
this new information. Unless there are strong objections to this, Russell will 
work with the election committee and share more details about the change of 
timeline. 

We are also drafting a job description for an "Interim Executive Director". The 
idea of this would be to get somebody in place, ideally by April 1st to work 
with Kate prior to her formal end date. So although this part of the plan is 
open to discussion too, we do have a tight deadline there. The word "interim" 
means this is not part of a permanent staff arrangement, just a transition.  If 
you would like to be involved in drafting this job description, please let us 
know.

In this time of transition, HOT now has an opportunity to reflect and consider 
our plans for the future. A clear path we anticipate, is that the new board 
will work with the community to transition from Interim Executive Director to 
permanent Executive Director in the coming months. We have grown in the past 
four years. As we seek new leadership, we want to first seek input from the HOT 
community.

To that end, we invite you to join a community call to talk about the next 
steps. To make it possible for the most voices to be heard and for as many as 
possible to participate, we are hosting multiple calls in the coming week:

Community Call #1
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 15:00 GMT/11:00 EST 
Your local time: http://bit.ly/HOTCommunity1

Community Call #2
Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 00:00 GMT / Wednesday, March 11, 2015 19:00 CST
Your Local Time: http://bit.ly/HOTCommunityMeeting2

Community Call #3
Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:00 PST/19:00 GMT
Your Local time:  http://bit.ly/HOTCommunity3

These will take place as voice calls on Mumble. Key notes and comments will be 
collected shared with those that cannot be present. We will also be on IRC for 
those that don’t use Mumble. 

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Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

[Kristen Egermeier]

Kate has been a dear friend and an incredible mentor over the many years
we've now known each other.  I will miss her at HOT but I'm so excited for
her new opportunity!
Working with Kate has been incredible.  I've learned so much about
leadership and dedication, and I hope to carry on her calm, kind demeanor
into my own work with HOT.
Thank you for all of your hard, dedicated work Kate!  You've help guide and
build HOT into an incredible organization and I couldn't be more proud to
work for such an entity.
All my best wishes,
Kristen

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Alex Barth  wrote:

> Kate thanks for all your hard work and leadership to support and grow the
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team. Much luck for the new challenge, I'm glad
> you're not going far, staying in the open source mapping realm!
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Kate Chapman 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear HOT community
>>
>> In January 2010 HOT came to me during a transition period in my life. As
>> I look back over the past 5 years I can’t even imagine where I’d be today
>> without the HOT community. With this in mind it is now time for me to
>> transition again into a different role within HOT. It is time for my time
>> as a paid staff member to end, though I will still be contributing as a
>> volunteer.
>>
>> I have accepted a position with a new organization (so new it is
>> currently nameless) as their Chief Technology Officer, I’ll be working to
>> build an open-source land rights mapping system. This mean I am stepping
>> down from my Executive Director role at HOT. I will be remaining a
>> participant in the HOT community as both a Voting Member, administrator for
>> the Outreachy internship program, and within the Missing Maps Project and
>> OpenAerialMap. I hope to see many of you at the HOT Summit as well.
>>
>> I will assist the Board of Directors of HOT in both a handover plan and
>> documentation of my role at the organization. The Board will be following
>> up with instructions and next steps in the next day.
>>
>> If you have any questions or just even want to talk please contact me
>> directly. The Board is also available to answer questions as needed, they
>> can be reached at bo...@hotosm.org. To keep in touch with me personally,
>> please update your address book for k...@maploser.com.
>>
>> The HOT community is strong and I can’t wait to see what we will do in
>> the future.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> -Kate
>>
>> --
>> Kate Chapman
>> Executive Director
>> email: kate.chap...@hotosm.org
>> U.S. mobile: +1 703 673 8834
>> Indonesian mobile: +62 82123068370
>>
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>> *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development*
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>>  | facebook  | donate
>> 
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Re: [HOT] Executive Director transition plans

[Pierre Béland]

Harry,
It is not to the Board to intervene in the Nomination process and I dont agree 
that the process should be revised with Kate announcing today her choice. 
  
Pierre 

  De : Harry Wood 
 À : "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
 Envoyé le : Lundi 9 mars 2015 14h02
 Objet : [HOT] Executive Director transition plans
   
Dear Hotties, 

With Kate’s announcement, we have a busy few weeks ahead and we very much want 
to ask for your help in pursuing next steps. And, we want to assure you that 
the HOT Board is here to make this transition go well. 

First off, Kate, from all of the current board members, let me say thank you 
very much again, for all your years of leadership with HOT. We have grown to a 
sustainable and productive organisation that is globally recognised on the 
delivery of quality mapping projects for humanitarian and economic development. 
We truly wish you well in your new job.

Fellow Members: 
The timing of Kate's changes and the Board nominations are unfortunately 
coinciding. The original close of nominations was scheduled for midnight UTC 
today (in a few hours time). We talked about this with our advisors and Russell 
as Membership Chair. Our thinking is that it may be best to extend the Board 
nomination period in light of the changes. The intention of that is simply to 
allow time for this news to reach people, allow time for other candidates to 
step forward, and to give the opportunity for current candidates to consider 
this new information. Unless there are strong objections to this, Russell will 
work with the election committee and share more details about the change of 
timeline. 

We are also drafting a job description for an "Interim Executive Director". The 
idea of this would be to get somebody in place, ideally by April 1st to work 
with Kate prior to her formal end date. So although this part of the plan is 
open to discussion too, we do have a tight deadline there. The word "interim" 
means this is not part of a permanent staff arrangement, just a transition.  If 
you would like to be involved in drafting this job description, please let us 
know.

In this time of transition, HOT now has an opportunity to reflect and consider 
our plans for the future. A clear path we anticipate, is that the new board 
will work with the community to transition from Interim Executive Director to 
permanent Executive Director in the coming months. We have grown in the past 
four years. As we seek new leadership, we want to first seek input from the HOT 
community.

To that end, we invite you to join a community call to talk about the next 
steps. To make it possible for the most voices to be heard and for as many as 
possible to participate, we are hosting multiple calls in the coming week:

Community Call #1
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 15:00 GMT/11:00 EST 
Your local time: http://bit.ly/HOTCommunity1

Community Call #2
Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 00:00 GMT / Wednesday, March 11, 2015 19:00 CST
Your Local Time: http://bit.ly/HOTCommunityMeeting2

Community Call #3
Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:00 PST/19:00 GMT
Your Local time:  http://bit.ly/HOTCommunity3

These will take place as voice calls on Mumble. Key notes and comments will be 
collected shared with those that cannot be present. We will also be on IRC for 
those that don’t use Mumble. 

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Re: [HOT] Installing JOSM on Mac OS

[Clifford Snow]

I emailed the user with instructions to upgrade Java on OS X Leopard.
Basically a special app is needed to install Java on older systems.
Pacifist, www.charlessoft.com, has an app to install the jdk7.x.dmg file
downloaded from Oracle.

If he has problems, I work with him to get it working.

Clifford

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Harry Wood  wrote:

> See this wiki page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Mac
>
> Sadly apple and oracle seem to be conspiring to make running java software
> on mac quite difficult. Java version 6 may be easier for some mac users, in
> which case the link to the older version 7000 of JOSM will work.
>
> Harry
>
> 
> From: Richard Welty 
> To: john whelan 
> Cc: "hot@openstreetmap.org" 
> Sent: Sunday, 8 March 2015, 0:25
> Subject: Re: [HOT] Installing JOSM on Mac OS
>
>
>
> On 3/7/15 7:05 PM, john whelan wrote:
>
> The user thinks he has an older version of Mac OS and wondered if it would
> even take JAVA 7.  I'm sure it will get sorted out in time.
> it'd be good to know the version number in question.
>
> java 7 can certainly be installed on older Mac OS X; i ran
> 6 & 7 side by side for a long time on a 2007 vintage Macbook
> pro which was limited to Lion.
>
>
>
>
> richard
>
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Re: [HOT] Executive Director transition plans

[Harry Wood]

That's very brief email Pierre. I can try to read between the lines but... 
would it be too much to ask for you to explain *why* you don't agree?


Are you saying that Kate should not have announced her choice today? The timing 
of today's announcement was a bit of tricky decision (discussed and decided by 
the board more than Kate really). Unfortunate clash of timing with the 
election, and no real ideal time to break the news. We started out planning to 
announce this a bit later on, but decided we should probably get the news out 
sooner. 


As I said...   Our thinking is that it may be best to extend the Board 
nomination period in light of the changes. The intention of that is simply to 
allow time for this news to reach people, allow time for other candidates to 
step forward, and to give the opportunity for current candidates to consider 
this new information.

I guess you could say we are "intervening" by making this suggestion, but... is 
this an unwelcome intervention for any particular reason Pierre?

Harry


From: Pierre Béland 
To: Harry Wood ; "hot@openstreetmap.org" 
 
Sent: Monday, 9 March 2015, 18:32
Subject: Re: [HOT] Executive Director transition plans



Harry,

It is not to the Board to intervene in the Nomination process and I dont agree 
that the process should be revised with Kate announcing today her choice. 

 
 
Pierre 




De : Harry Wood 
À : "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
Envoyé le : Lundi 9 mars 2015 14h02
Objet : [HOT] Executive Director transition plans




Dear Hotties, 

With Kate’s announcement, we have a busy few weeks ahead and we very much want 
to ask for your help in pursuing next steps. And, we want to assure you that 
the HOT Board is here to make this transition go well. 

First off, Kate, from all of the current board members, let me say thank you 
very much again, for all your years of leadership with HOT. We have grown to a 
sustainable and productive organisation that is globally recognised on the 
delivery of quality mapping projects for humanitarian and economic development. 
We truly wish you well in your new job.

Fellow Members: 
The timing of Kate's changes and the Board nominations are unfortunately 
coinciding. The original close of nominations was scheduled for midnight UTC 
today (in a few hours time). We talked about this with our advisors and Russell 
as Membership Chair. Our thinking is that it may be best to extend the Board 
nomination period in light of the changes. The intention of that is simply to 
allow time for this news to reach people, allow time for other candidates to 
step forward, and to give the opportunity for current candidates to consider 
this new information. Unless there are strong objections to this, Russell will 
work with the election committee and share more details about the change of 
timeline. 

We are also drafting a job description for an "Interim Executive Director". The 
idea of this would be to get somebody in place, ideally by April 1st to work 
with Kate prior to her formal end date. So although this part of the plan is 
open to discussion too, we do have a tight deadline there. The word "interim" 
means this is not part of a permanent staff arrangement, just a transition.  If 
you would like to be involved in drafting this job description, please let us 
know.

In this time of transition, HOT now has an opportunity to reflect and consider 
our plans for the future. A clear path we anticipate, is that the new board 
will work with the community to transition from Interim Executive Director to 
permanent Executive Director in the coming months. We have grown in the past 
four years. As we seek new leadership, we want to first seek input from the HOT 
community.

To that end, we invite you to join a community call to talk about the next 
steps. To make it possible for the most voices to be heard and for as many as 
possible to participate, we are hosting multiple calls in the coming week:

Community Call #1
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 15:00 GMT/11:00 EST 
Your local time: http://bit.ly/HOTCommunity1

Community Call #2
Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 00:00 GMT / Wednesday, March 11, 2015 19:00 CST
Your Local Time: http://bit.ly/HOTCommunityMeeting2

Community Call #3
Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:00 PST/19:00 GMT
Your Local time:  http://bit.ly/HOTCommunity3

These will take place as voice calls on Mumble. Key notes and comments will be 
collected shared with those that cannot be present. We will also be on IRC for 
those that don’t use Mumble. 

To help us organize this call, please add agenda items to this document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ROKF4phcsWiXinH2hfaeEu0ol0PTwcLiIDaPH9XtkU/edit#

We look forward to ongoing conversations. 


Thanks again,

Harry on behalf of the board.

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Re: [HOT] Installing JOSM on Mac OS

[john whelan]

Thanks John

On 9 March 2015 at 14:41, Clifford Snow  wrote:

> I emailed the user with instructions to upgrade Java on OS X Leopard.
> Basically a special app is needed to install Java on older systems.
> Pacifist, www.charlessoft.com, has an app to install the jdk7.x.dmg file
> downloaded from Oracle.
>
> If he has problems, I work with him to get it working.
>
> Clifford
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Harry Wood  wrote:
>
>> See this wiki page:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Mac
>>
>> Sadly apple and oracle seem to be conspiring to make running java
>> software on mac quite difficult. Java version 6 may be easier for some mac
>> users, in which case the link to the older version 7000 of JOSM will work.
>>
>> Harry
>>
>> 
>> From: Richard Welty 
>> To: john whelan 
>> Cc: "hot@openstreetmap.org" 
>> Sent: Sunday, 8 March 2015, 0:25
>> Subject: Re: [HOT] Installing JOSM on Mac OS
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/7/15 7:05 PM, john whelan wrote:
>>
>> The user thinks he has an older version of Mac OS and wondered if it
>> would even take JAVA 7.  I'm sure it will get sorted out in time.
>> it'd be good to know the version number in question.
>>
>> java 7 can certainly be installed on older Mac OS X; i ran
>> 6 & 7 side by side for a long time on a 2007 vintage Macbook
>> pro which was limited to Lion.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> richard
>>
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Re: [HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

[Jorieke Vyncke]

Hi Blake, Fofana, Heather and all,

Thanks a lot for your support and lovely words!!
And if you have questions, please don't hesitate!

Best greetings,

Jorieke

2015-03-09 18:05 GMT+01:00 Heather Leson :

> Merci Fofana.
>
> Jorieke, Thank you for you dedication to local communities. And welcome as
> a fellow nominee.
>
> Heather
> On Mar 9, 2015 8:01 PM, "FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA" 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone
>> I work with Jorieke for three weeks in a country in West Africa on OSM.
>> I can tell you that his method of working with local communities is
>> impressive. It has easy contact with communities and is very attentive and
>> passionate about his work.
>> I think that HOT gain much to have person like in CA
>>
>> forgive all sins (excusez toutes fautes)
>>
>> 2015-03-09 15:06 GMT+00:00 Blake Girardot :
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> This is great news! Thank you so much for running for Board member
>>> Jorieke!
>>>
>>> Jorieke is exactly the kind of person I think we will be lucky to have
>>> sit on our Board. She is an enthusiastic supporter of local OSM communities
>>> and backs up her talk with action and field work!
>>>
>>> Her on the ground experience empowering local groups and helping build
>>> capacities around the world will be priceless to HOT as we work to increase
>>> out support and encouragement of local HOT and OSM groups.
>>>
>>> One does not need to work with Jorieke for very long to appreciate her
>>> dedication, enthusiasm and professionalism.
>>>
>>> Jorieke I look forward to seeing you on the HOT Board and working with
>>> you to help make your vision for HOTs priorities a reality whether I am on
>>> the Board or not.
>>>
>>> It is my pleasure to nominate Jorieke Vyncke for the Humanitarian
>>> OpenStreetMap Team Board of Directors.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Blake
>>>
>>> On 3/9/2015 11:12 AM, Jorieke Vyncke wrote:
>>>
 Hi all,


 After seeing all the discussions, mails and reflecting a long time, I
 finally decided.

 To run.

 Not to run away, but to run for the board.


 In my eyes the heart of HOT is the community, not the board. Because in
 the community, that’s where things are happening: all the remote
 volunteers mapping for an ebola task, people on a Missing Maps Mapathon,
 data collection with motorbikes by the Togolese OSM-community,
 translating LearnOSM into Indonesian, giving a presentation on a
 conference, coding to improve the Tasking Manager, … and this to work
 towards our common goal of humanitarian aid and local development
 everywhere in the world.


 This is what the board in my eyes needs to facilitate, to support and to
 make decisions towards.


 How would I try to work towards this as a board member?

   * We need to support local OSM-communities in every way we can. This,
 by among others setting up projects to support and create local OSM
 communities everywhere in the world. Big budget, but also very low
 budget.

   * We need to support individual and group projects popping up in our
 HOT-community. Some magnificent examples: MapLesotho, Missing Maps,
 Projet EOF, Mapazonia, … This we can do by sharing the tools we
 made, exchanging ideas and sharing advice, knowledge and
 experiences.

   * We need to give the membership and the broader HOT community a
 bigger voice by more transparency and the creation of discussion on
 the direction and vision of HOT. Democracy is more than a yearly
 election.

   * We need to outreach more towards atypical mapper profiles, like
 mine. In addition to the development of tools and software, we need
 to stimulate and support the organization of social mapping events.
 In this way we can create a bigger diversity in our community.

 My vision on what direction the board has to go, flows directly out of
 my experiences of volunteering remotely, but most important out of my
 experiences of going and mapping on the field. I did several field trips
 the last three years, to build and support local OSM communities in the
 Central African Republic, Cameroun, Senegal, DRC and Bangladesh [1].
 This resulted also in a good knowledge of the field of humanitarian and
 development organizations: big international NGOs and local
 universities, organisations of the UN-system and small local
 associations …. Isn’t this an advantage to have in the board too?
 Further I will be based in Africa the next one or two years. I’m leaving
 in a big week for Mali to work as a GIS officer for the Belgian
 Development Agency. So I’ll have the opportunity not only being a HOT
 volunteer, but also using the data we create and giving feedback from a
 user side.


 Now you know a little bit more what you will get if I’m elected. :-)


 

Re: [HOT] Canaan Haiti Mapping

[FredM]

Hello Dale, very good initiative to have a massive use of Mapillary. 

For OSM Haiti side, We just finished processing of the drones images (
February 2015 including infrared). We still have a lot of cleaning to do,
because we want to extract the land cover and height of the building.

Concerning Canaan:
This is an informal area it has been built without the help of NGOs.
This is a complex organization and it is important to be careful and involve
as much as possible the people not only the leader ( what we can do on our
side is to organize  mapping ,party/participatory gis, training, if by any
chance somebody has some budget,…)

OSM haiti made some training in 2014 for  the red cross in Cap Haitien,

Mappng party in Cannan :

 OSM Haiti has done some work with communities (16 meeting) to identify
blocks over onaville / Canaan. It is important to be able to support the
process and let the community organizing and thing about the use of this
space with of course local authority.

Remote mapping: Let's see if we can organize a mapping party in Paris, to
support your initiative.

We will need to use the same image or reference, to be sure we have the same
spatial reference during digitizing. 

All the best FredM




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Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

[john whelan]

I think that radomised controlled trials might well be useful.  Perhaps we
could see which projects are successful and pick out those that the mappers
are more satisfied with but only on the premise that happy mappers are less
likely to drop out. I haven't expressed that well but I seethe potential
for the technique within HOT.

Cheerio John

On 9 March 2015 at 04:56, Hazel  wrote:

> Hello, all,
>
> I think this is a really good point. Anything that helps data quality gets
> my vote, too.
>
> Why not make the interface deliberately flexible and run controlled
> trials, as described here?
> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-learn-adapt-
> developing-public-policy-with-randomised-controlled-trials
>
> Accuracy, speed, and volunteer retention are quantifiable. Are there any
> other characteristics people want?
>
> All the best,
> Hazel
>
>
> On 2015-03-08 23:05, john whelan wrote:
>
>> I would much prefer to see an officially approved method.  People can give
>> more thought to it but the basic idea of a workflow for simple tasks using
>> JOSM I think is good.  JOSM is easier than some people it credit for but
>> more to the point we get less area=yes instead of buildings=yes, highways
>> that almost meet, and duplicate buildings and anything that helps data
>> quality get my vote.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> On 8 March 2015 at 18:51, althio  wrote:
>>
>>  John, Ray,
>>>
>>> I think the quick start guide is a very neat idea. I would need to try
>>> the
>>> workflow and a few variations for myself.
>>>
>>> For the time being I only have reservations about the trick "
>>> upload-and-cancel". It would be IMO simpler and better to guide people to
>>> use consciously validation instead of faking an upload. (Validation
>>> window
>>> and/or Shift+V)
>>>
>>> I would say this particular aspect of the workflow is not intended for
>>> beginners (and idiots) because it is error-prone. (What if I am still
>>> trying to figure out what needs to be mapped? I am a beginner and do not
>>> know or understand the differences between projects and their
>>> instructions... What if I upload bad data? I am an idiot...)
>>>
>>> I think you must learn to walk before you can run. This kind of tricks is
>>> for people who want to map faster, understand the pros and cons, the
>>> purpose and risks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyway John, I fully agree your post is a nice starting point for this
>>> kind of guide with an "approved" and proposed workflow for simple tasks.
>>> Thank you Nick for safekeeping the idea.
>>>
>>>
>>> althio
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 7, 2015 8:43 AM, "Ray Kiddy"  wrote:
>>>
>>>
 John -

 Wow. That was actually an amazing help.

 I am not sure how adding a plugin can be made intuitive for someone
 doing it the first time without this level of detail.

 I also think part of my problem is going from slippy maps, like what we
 have been using on the web for years, and the iPhone and so on, to
 JOSM. The navigation is ... different. I guess control-arrow makes
 sense for moving in the map, but I seem to keep looking for a "grab"
 tool of some kind. My hands know slippy maps.

 And your "hit-update-but-dont" workflow is brilliant, but the fact that
 it has to be done that way, or is easier done that way Well, it
 suggests something is off, but I do not know what. We will see.

 I think that, at this point, I can go to the JOSM resources and get
 where I need to go.

 It is certainly daunting at first but, OMG, for buildings, JOSM is
 fantastic.

 Well, onward and upward.

 - ray


 On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 18:30:59 -0500
 john whelan  wrote:

 > Right the basic idiot guide.
 >
 > First write down your OSM userid and password.
 >
 > For task 917 we only care about highways, settlements and buildings.
 > Buildings if only because if there is one in isolation sometimes we
 > like to map it rather than call it a landuse=residential.
 >
 > Start JOSM up, in the edit menu you'll find preferences down the
 > bottom.
 >
 > We need to allow HOT to remotely control JOSM to feed it the bit to
 > map. So look for the remote control, usually second button up on the
 > left. Click enable remote control, ignore the rest.
 >
 > Now we need to add a plugin, fourth tile down is the plugin button.
 > Download the list.  Look for buildings_tool they're in alphabetical
 > order, click it and ignore the rest.
 >
 > go to http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/917
 >
 > Read the instructions.
 >
 > Click on a tile, click on start mapping, select edit with JOSM.
 >
 > Switch back to JOSM and you'll find its pulled in the existing OSM
 > map for the tile.
 >
 > We want to look at the imagery so look across the top, File, Edit etc
 > until you reach Imagery, for this one we will be using Bing so select
 > Bing.
 >

[HOT] Extension to the HOT Board/Chair Nomination Period

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings HOT,

 

I, on behalf of the 2015 Board and Chair Election Committee, announce an
extension to the nomination period. The updated election timeline is now:

- Nomination period began 23 February 2015 and will now conclude at 23:59
UTC on 12 March 2015.

- Campaign/Ballot/voting period until 27 March 2015 23:59 UTC (no change).

- Election concludes at the Annual Meeting of the voting membership (still
week of 29 March 2015).

 

All the details have been updated:

- 2015 Board and Chair Election wiki-page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Board_Elections_20
15 

- 2015 Annual Meeting Details/Agenda:
https://docs.google.com/a/hotosm.org/document/d/1PUyBevgpRxM3EGk7g4FqAYw7mj1
eOTUegJXY6PuVzwY/edit 

- 2015 Board/Chair Election Procedures:
https://docs.google.com/a/hotosm.org/document/d/1K1TUa_847Il1M3eVb1RMlONgqB5
JusuO4HOj2QbspIo/edit#
  

 

Best regards,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Chairperson for the Voting Members

russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ 

 

 

 

 

 

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[HOT] Let's make the most of this

[Joseph Reeves]

*tl;dr *People are always asking for more of a say in HOT. Let's do that
now!

Dear all,

The proposed (accepted?) extension to the nomination process has taken most
of us by surprise. Let's use it as an opportunity.

The original nomination deadline is due to close in less than an hour. With
this extended we have some possibilities. Most obviously, Severin, Nicolas,
Jaakko & Pierre, will you be able to write a proposal for your Board
election before the new deadline? Reading why someone else thinks you're
great is, well, great, but I'd rather hear your views.

In fact, I think this is really important before the new deadline. By
writing your views about HOT, the role of the Board and why you want to be
on it, you give others the opportunity to engage with you and your views.
You give others the opportunity to put themselves or others forward. We've
got the word "Open" in our organisation name; please don't keep your
thoughts from us.

I do admit, however, that the deadline extension is a bit of a nuisance if
you were planning to sneak in at the last minute, not say anything to the
membership and then let the nomination process close behind you. I'm sure
nobody was planning that.

Members, volunteers, interested parties:

if you were thinking of running for the Board, there's still time. Read
what others have written and see if you agree. Tell us what you think of
the organisation. How does the Board fit in there? Why do you want to be on
the Board and not a Working Group? What could you do as a board Member that
you couldn't do as a a community manager or mapping coordinator?

If you weren't thinking of running for the Board, please tell us what you
think anyway. At times in the past we've had great outcries that the
Membership has not been listened to. At this great opportunity, however,
it's depressing that not more people are speaking; the usual verbose email
senders, myself included, have been saying more than anyone else.

You don't have to tell us much. Brief is good. Put in a tl;dr if you like.

This is the most important time for sharing your views.

I'd be interested in, for example, what do you think HOT is? How do the
volunteers, Members and Board fit that view? What needs to change? Where
will we be in a year? 5 years? 10 years? How do we need to get there?

Tell us what you think, please.

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[HOT] Birth of a New E-Mail List - HOT Announcements Only

[Blake Girardot]

Announcing the "HOT Announce" E-mail List

We have gotten several requests for an easy way for volunteers, donors,
supporters and other people interested in HOT's activities to keep
up-to-date with activations, programs, events, fundraising drives and other
important news related to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team so we have
created a low volume e-mail list that is for news, updates and
announcements only.

Subscribing to this new e-mail list will make sure you are always
up-to-date on the happenings in and around the HOT community.

The HOT Announce list will be very low traffic and will not be configured
for replies and discussion, those will still take place right here on the
current main HOT E-Mail Discussion list.

You do _not_ need to subscribe to both the new HOT Announce list and the
current HOT E-mail Discussion list. The current HOT E-mail Discussion list
will also get every post that is sent to the new HOT Announce list.

You can subscribe to the new HOT Announce e-mail list by visiting:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot-announce


If you would like to adjust your subscription options to this HOT E-mail
Discussion list, you can take care of that at this location:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

 If you would like something posted on the announce list, just send the
announcement to communicati...@hotosm.org and one of the friendly HOT
Announce list admins will contact you.

If you have any questions you can contact me or the Communications Working
Group at the above address.

Best wishes,
Blake

Blake Girardot
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Volunteer
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Re: [HOT] Birth of a New E-Mail List - HOT Announcements Only

[Blake Girardot]

Whoops, it looks like my place holder address was in there for the new
announce list url link. Here is the correct url:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot-announce

Cheers,
Blake



On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Blake Girardot 
wrote:

>
> Announcing the "HOT Announce" E-mail List
>
> We have gotten several requests for an easy way for volunteers, donors,
> supporters and other people interested in HOT's activities to keep
> up-to-date with activations, programs, events, fundraising drives and other
> important news related to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team so we have
> created a low volume e-mail list that is for news, updates and
> announcements only.
>
> Subscribing to this new e-mail list will make sure you are always
> up-to-date on the happenings in and around the HOT community.
>
> The HOT Announce list will be very low traffic and will not be configured
> for replies and discussion, those will still take place right here on the
> current main HOT E-Mail Discussion list.
>
> You do _not_ need to subscribe to both the new HOT Announce list and the
> current HOT E-mail Discussion list. The current HOT E-mail Discussion list
> will also get every post that is sent to the new HOT Announce list.
>
> You can subscribe to the new HOT Announce e-mail list by visiting:
>
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot-announce
> 
>
> If you would like to adjust your subscription options to this HOT E-mail
> Discussion list, you can take care of that at this location:
>
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
>
>  If you would like something posted on the announce list, just send the
> announcement to communicati...@hotosm.org and one of the friendly HOT
> Announce list admins will contact you.
>
> If you have any questions you can contact me or the Communications Working
> Group at the above address.
>
> Best wishes,
> Blake
> 
> Blake Girardot
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
> Volunteer
>
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Re: [HOT] Extension to the HOT Board/Chair Nomination Period

[FOFANA]

although I'm not too agree with this change of schedule, I accept it as 
motivation is just to provide hot a management team dedicated to the task.
thank you Russell
Le 09/03/2015 23:13, Russell Deffner a écrit :
> Greetings HOT,
>
>  
>
> I, on behalf of the 2015 Board and Chair Election Committee, announce an
> extension to the nomination period. The updated election timeline is now:
>
> - Nomination period began 23 February 2015 and will now conclude at 23:59
> UTC on 12 March 2015.
>
> - Campaign/Ballot/voting period until 27 March 2015 23:59 UTC (no change).
>
> - Election concludes at the Annual Meeting of the voting membership (still
> week of 29 March 2015).
>
>  
>
> All the details have been updated:
>
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[HOT] HOT meetup at WCDRR in Sendai?

[maning sambale]

Probably some of you will join the WCDRR [0] in Sendai this weekend.
I will be in the Asia Resilience Forum [1].  Might be good to
informally meet fellow HOTties.


[0] http://www.wcdrr.org/
[1] http://resilienceforum.asia/
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Re: [HOT] HOT meetup at WCDRR in Sendai?

[Yantisa Akhadi]

Hello Maning,

Me and Vasanthi will be part of Asia Resilience Forum as well, see you
there then!

Best,

*Yantisa Akhadi (Iyan)*
*Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team*
Tel: +62 81 5787 03388  Email: yantisa.akh...@hotosm.org
hot.openstreetmap.org | openstreetmap.id

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:21 AM, maning sambale 
wrote:

> Probably some of you will join the WCDRR [0] in Sendai this weekend.
> I will be in the Asia Resilience Forum [1].  Might be good to
> informally meet fellow HOTties.
>
>
> [0] http://www.wcdrr.org/
> [1] http://resilienceforum.asia/
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> maning
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