Dear OSM Development Community Members, With the generous support of the USAID GeoCenter, experts in the use of geospatial tools and analysis in a humanitarian context, and the Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, experts in finding new ways to solve problems through their Disaster Management Innovation (DMInnovation) Indonesia program, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is leading a community focused software development project to design, specify, develop and release the next generation of its OSM Tasking Manager software in collaboration with you, the best open source geospatial designers and developers in the world, to produce a user friendly Tasking Manager 3.0 that is focused on engaging users to better connect them with the community.
A HOT Tech Challenge has been released to find the right team of folks to make the most of this opportunity through their skills and experience in OSM, design, community engagement, and code. https://hotosm.org/updates/2016-12-01_hots_osm_tasking_manager_30_tech_challenge The development project is OSM community focused and we are looking forward to involving as many skilled OSM designers, coders and system admin community members as possible. The Tech Challenge we are issuing is designed for collaboration to deliver the final project. If you think you have some needed skills to contribute, you are encouraged to apply, inidividuals, 2 person teams, companies, or consortia. You will be working directly with the Tasking Manager stakeholders throughout the process to support you in agile development. Through this community driven process we will desgn and implement significant improvements to functionality of Tasking Manager 2.0 organized around the 5 key goals for the project, UI/UX improvements, better mapper engagement, improved project creation and management tools, validation and exposing a complete API. A full description of the Tasking Manager 3 project objectives and methods can be found in the project Terms of Reference here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rUiDk4jMiWZ2gXPJPyAM0td4VGCNwhCBo_E-rsBnc1M Comments on that document are open and welcome, please leave any thoughts or comments on it! The 2 main channels for high involvement or closely tracking progress, you have to sign in, but it is worth it: HOT Slack - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ HOT's GitHub - https://github.com/hotosm No sign in required for: IRC: https://webchat.oftc.net/ channel: HOT Working Group Meetings Email [email protected] I am HOT's overall Project Manager for the Tasking Manager 3 development process, please contact me anytime if you have any comment, feedback or questions. Cheers, Blake ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, TM3 Project Manager skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: [email protected] _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
