Severin - this sounds very interesting.
How do you see an engagement between a tutor and a community work? Would a tutor travel in country (partly), how long would he/she engage with a community? Are you seeing opportunities to sponsor tutors by development programmes, governments or companies? On Aug 22, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Séverin MENARD <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Nicolas and I would like to find ways to facilitate connections between > global mappers and new communities in the developing countries. We thought > about starting a HOT tutorship program in which active members from the > community would make contact with the emergent communities we helped or will > help to start: > > • the communities in Haiti and Kenya and the rising one in Senegal > • the future ones in the African countries (Cad, Burundi and Central > Republic of Africa, as well as Kenya) concerned by the EUROSHA program that > will start in October, to support both the program volunteers and the OSM > community they will aim for creating > > Experienced mappers could provide a great support regarding OSM techniques, > remote mapping, imagery setting, quality assurance, communication (OSM > wikipages, social media, etc.). Of course on a voluntary basis, according to > their chosen field and kinship towards such or such country. > > Basically, this would be a different approach of what is done so far through > OSM lists where the help/advices are often limited to a specific request. > Here both sides would be presented, the local communities through their > story, members, skills, and project(s) and the tutors through their > background and their OSM experience. > > So far it is a general idea for which we would like that the HOT community > provide creative inputs to sketch it in more details. I will create an OSM > Wikipage as a starting point so that everyone can contribute. > > > Sincerely, > > > > > > > > Severin MENARD > Current HOT Acting Project Director > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
