[HOT] Just saw the tweet: We are only $182 from our micro-grants stretch goal!

2016-12-30 Thread Blake Girardot
Wow, really cool! Help us push this over the stretch goal too!! We all can look forward to a 2017 connected even more closely to folks around the world, on the ground, making a difference in their communities according to their priorities and achieving their goals! https://donate.hotosm.org/

Re: [HOT] Dealing with future growth: three recommendations to organisers (my SotM16 talk)

2016-12-30 Thread Tyler Radford
Hi Martin, a very late thank-you for these points and summary. Blake, glad to hear the core suggestions are now up on github. Tyler *Tyler Radford* Executive Director tyler.radf...@hotosm.org @TylerSRadford *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response &

[HOT] Off-Topic: Medical textbook "Parasitic Diseases, 6th Edition" available for free

2016-12-30 Thread Blake Girardot
New Year's Greetings! This might be of interest to some in the HOT community, although not directly related to mapping, it is related to one of most common reasons we do map, public health. The latest edition of a leading medical textbook on parasite caused diseases (like malaria) was published