[HOT] HOT Community Meeting Summary Notes and Next Steps

2015-03-12 Thread Heather Leson
HI Hotties, The HOT community hosted three community calls this week to talk about the Executive Director Transition and timing. The following is a summary and some actions. Harry, Russell and Heather facilitated these meetings. Notes and audio clips can be below. All: Your support and help duri

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread Dale Kunce
Harry I loved your idea of putting the conflicts into a simple post that can be updated/changed without fear of mucking up the election wiki page. If anyone identifies other conflicts that I haven't noticed please feel free to point them out. As promised I've written my conflicts up. https://www.o

Re: [HOT] What I want from Hot - Response

2015-03-12 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi All I would like to expand a little on one of my remarks yesterday, this is what I said *Board Feedback* *Well, to be blunt, this has to improve to the HOT membership. Unfortunately with Kate’s resignation, it will put a dent in the Board’s ability to address this properly, purely from a prac

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Kate - you're probably correct, we are using the person you referred us to, so there should be no surprises there. On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: > Hi Martijn, > > HOT has a conflict of interest policy prepared by I believe the same legal > expert. It was required to apply

Re: [HOT] Recap of Community Call 2, reminder of CC 3

2015-03-12 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi Russel and all Thanks for you and Harry in facilitating the meetings and putting up minutes, Thanks to all who participated in. It was not possible for me to attend any of the first two CommunityCalls (CC. I put up some notes about them in order to prepare the next #3 Call. - By readi

Re: [HOT] HOT meetup at WCDRR in Sendai?

2015-03-12 Thread Taichi Furuhashi
Hi, Yes, "Asia Resilience Forum" is a part of "Race for Resilience/Code for Resilience", related with OpenStreetMap Community. http://resilienceforum.asia/en/index.html We will make a good meetup chance with OpenStreetMap mappers in the world. See you at WCDRR in Sendai. Taichi 2015-03-11 1:

Re: [HOT] HOT Community Call #3 Audio Recording available

2015-03-12 Thread Blake Girardot
I can never send just one email :) The agenda doc with summary notes that Kristen amazingly generated in real time during the call are here: https://docs.google.com/a/hotosm.org/document/d/1bMNE8IPy3DAAVih60zSfenQ18bs962Lkn2MAZar_uds/edit#heading=h.g9e6w2lzdd00 Cheers, Blake On Fri, Mar 13, 20

[HOT] HOT Community Call #3 Audio Recording available

2015-03-12 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, If you would like to download or listen to the most recent community call you can find it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3e9e8ckalgp7z3/HOT_CommunityCall_3_2015-03-12.mp3?dl=0 If it asks you to make an account or anything, ignore it, you do not need an account to download the file

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread John Crowley
Nico, There is no precedent for HOT board members resigning to ensure the neutrality of HOT. I resigned from the HOT board to ensure that HOT could remain a "vendor" at The World Bank Group under the conflict of interest rules of *The World Bank Group*. If I had remained on the HOT board as a Wor

[HOT] open geology map

2015-03-12 Thread Hazel
Dear All, Can we again discuss putting geological data into OSM? Specifically, I'd like a recommended way to tag fault lines and surface geology polygons. This e-mail assumes the reader knows nothing of geology, apologies to everyone else. First, the usecase: geological data saves lives in

[HOT] Hottie Reminder - Community Call #3

2015-03-12 Thread Heather Leson
HI Folks, a reminder that the next Community Call (#3) starts in 40 minutes Agenda: https://docs.google.com/a/hotosm.org/document/d/1bMNE8IPy3DAAVih60zSfenQ18bs962Lkn2MAZar_uds/edit# heather -- Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com __

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Martijn, HOT has a conflict of interest policy prepared by I believe the same legal expert. It was required to apply for 501(c)(3) status and signed by the board at the time. On the road so can't look it up at the moment. Kate On Mar 12, 2015 12:37 PM, "Martijn van Exel" wrote: > The OSM US

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread Mikel Maron
Please note, HOT does have established Conflict of Interest policies in place. These were first approved by the Board in 2012 as part of the 501(3)c process, and discussed and reviewed most recently last year. These documents are viewable at  https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/?pli=1#folders/0Bz

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread nicolas chavent
Thanks for this Martjin: this would be most helpful in that context on top of the practices within HOT US. Best, Nicolas On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > The OSM US board has just agreed on a COI policy that was prepared by a > legal expert. I can see if I can get you

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
The OSM US board has just agreed on a COI policy that was prepared by a legal expert. I can see if I can get you a copy if that would help? On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Harry Wood wrote: > > I believe conflicts should be handled in the follow 2 basic ways. > > > > 1. Potential conflicts sho

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread Harry Wood
> I believe conflicts should be handled in the follow 2 basic ways. > > 1. Potential conflicts should be talked about and acknowledged well > before any actual conflicts arise. > 2. Board members should completely recuse themselves from any > conversation. They should not listen to or be a part of

Re: [HOT] What I want from Hot - Response

2015-03-12 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi Maning, Zacharia, Althio, Russ, Robert and the Rest of the HOT Community I thought I would be the first board candidate to address these GREAT thoughts and suggestions on the future of HOT. If elected, I will do my best to address at as many of these during my term as I can and possibly help p

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi > In HOT US, there are precedents leading to the resignation of former Board members Robert Soden and John Crowley (World Bank) and Mikel Maron (Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House) This is not a precedent. I resigned from the Board due to Conflict of Issues raised by my employer

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi Dale Thanks for your email and to bring upfront the question of your vision about the handling of conflict of interest in the Board of HOT US tied to partnership and your call for candidates to the Board of HOT US to publish their statements. Speaking about conflict of interests and partnershi

Re: [HOT] Let's make the most of this

2015-03-12 Thread Joseph Reeves
hi Sev, I've seen that you've put your statement forward - as a voting member it's much appreciated. I've got some questions, but don't have the time to type them out right now. I wasn't trying to stigmatize anyone, but was simply asking those that hadn't written their views to try and do so. Of c

Re: [HOT] Let's make the most of this

2015-03-12 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Joseph, I did plan to present my views as a candidate for the board and I did it, and I am sure everyone else has been working on this. The extension allows us to strengthen our texts. Publishing early is your own decision and is not a rule and I do not see the benefit to stigmatize other candi

Re: [HOT] What I want from HOT (was: Re: Let's make the most of this)

2015-03-12 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, Sorry, my comment on diversity got cut off…what I meant to say is this: P.S. Also please goodness let’s working on being more diverse. We’re an international organization and we need a more international, gender-balanced membership. This isn’t something that happens overnight and

Re: [HOT] What I want from HOT (was: Re: Let's make the most of this)

2015-03-12 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, In addition to the comments from Althio, Maning and others (which are excellent), I have a few things I’d like to see from HOT at this moment of transition: 1. Greater clarity on what support to local groups look like. I think everyone agrees that fostering local (HOT) OSM chapt

Re: [HOT] Mayendit task

2015-03-12 Thread Pete Masters
Hello all, Supreme thanks for the effort you made on the Mayendit task. The team has received info that has led them to widen their assessment area. There is a new task in the TM at http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/938 They need the hut / road data today! We have said no promises, but that we will

Re: [HOT] HOT meetup at WCDRR in Sendai?

2015-03-12 Thread Heather Leson
Fantastic. can you each provide us just a sentence or so or a photo afterwards? It would be great to learn about your experiences and see you represent HOT. (only if you have time and are not camera shy) Also, does anyone know if TaiChi will be in Sendai too? I have so much warmth for the Japanese