Awesome summary SDE - thanks for this - extremely valuable to see the progress on this thinking.
On Mar 15, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Schuyler Erle wrote: > Hello Team, > > Today we had the first meeting of the HOT Activation Working Group on the IRC > channel. The meeting lasted an hour. Pierre Beland, Fran Boon, Andrew Buck, > Robert Banick, Harry Wood, and I participated. > > The stated objective of the working group is to develop a strategy and > tactics for optimally allocating HOT's resources in response to humanitarian > crisis. We noted that humanitarian crises range quite widely in severity and > in level of international response, and that HOT's response should be > commensurate with the degree to which our services will be used by responders > on the ground. > > The substance of the discussion today revolved around identifying HOT's > possible responses to crisis (including documenting data sources, acquiring > imagery, setting up volunteer tasking services, and mobilizing volunteers), > and working backwards to identify the triggers for those activities. > > We also discussed at length the distinction between "activation", and simply > responding to requests made by partner organizations. We agreed (I believe) > that prompt and reliable response to partner inquiries should be a priority > for HOT and should be taken up as a subject for discussion and recommendation > by the working group. > > I think that the working group members agreed to start documenting some of > these ideas on the OSM wiki for further discussion. We also agreed after > talking for an hour to pick up the discussion again one week from today, at > 14:00 UTC on Thu 22 Mar 2012. > > The IRC log for today's meeting is here: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OpenStreetMap_Team/Activation_Working_Group_22_Mar_2012 > > Hope to see those of you who are interested in the subject on #hot next > Thursday! I'll send out a reminder a couple days ahead of time. Cheers! > > SDE > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
