Re: [HOT] mission creep

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:30:19 -0800

As my client (webmaill) refuses to thread due to Flintstone's era handling of header content ... this relates to posting http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2011-October/001236.html ...

I want to try and understand what you are speaking to.  I agree that there is a definite distinction between Aid Workers using mapping resources and HOT creating mapping resources.  I think, though, that HOT has managed to maintain a clear distinction between these two.  Are you considering the notion that the barrier between Aid Providing and Aid Enabling has been breached?  Or are you merely casting a cautionary gaze in this direction?

--OSM contributor ceyockey
-----Original Message-----
From: moira walsh
Sent: Oct 1, 2011 10:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HOT] mission creep

Hello All.  I have a very general, but strong, opinion to offer.  Aid work, whether emergency relief or development is incredibly hard to get right.  For that reason most of the aid organizations, even those with good reputations, are not doing a very good job of it.  The need is great, so good people take on more than they can deliver well; and things go badly.   One way to improve your chances is to specialize as much as possible, and to scale up only when most all the wrinkles have been smoothed out.  It's true the division between emergency and development is somewhat artificial, but that division is there to allow organizations to focus on what they hope to do well.   
2 cents please : )
Moira
 
 
Moira Walsh
P.O. Box 1074
Faribault, MN  55021
[email protected]
www.waterinanutshell.us
 
 
 
 
 
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