Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-16 Thread Simon Poole
I don't think that it is really any of our business what HOT does with its funds. I do consider it slightly ironical that HOT is approaching non-HOT OSM for funds to distribute to what are in the end OSM groups though, surely we can do that ourselves if it should be done at all.  Wouldn't we

Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2017-12-16 17:04 GMT+01:00 Eugene Alvin Villar : > > And surely saying that the decision-making process is "completely > intransparent" is just being plain lazy. Here are several blog posts and > documents providing quite a bit of detail into the process and results that > can

Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Saturday 16 December 2017, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > I'm not sure if you are aware of how the microgrant system is run, > but local OSM communities, such as OSM Zambia, submit grant proposals > which are then selected by HOT. This is what is meant by Tyler when > he wrote "OSM community

Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2017, Tyler Radford wrote: > > [...] big-impact projects conceptualized by OSM community leaders. > > I had hoped that HOT learned from the tasking manager problem a few > months back that

Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-14 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Thursday 14 December 2017, Tyler Radford wrote: > [...] big-impact projects conceptualized by OSM community > leaders. I had hoped that HOT learned from the tasking manager problem a few months back that properly referring to OSM in a way that clarifies the difference between HOT and OSM is

[OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-14 Thread Tyler Radford
Dear all, In 2016 hundreds of you supported the dream of starting a small grants program to grow and sustain the activities of emerging OSM communities. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) was proud to administer this "Microgrants" program, distributing more than $38,000 to 9 small-scale,