Tom started to collaborate as a volunteer for the HOT/OSM humanitarian responses with the North Mali Activation in early 2013. Tom was part of the very motivated contribtors that joined in weekly to discuss on the HOT IRC with the humanitarians in the field plus the OCHA coordinator. We discussed about the particular context of the Upper Niger Delta and the desertic zones north of Mali and how to adapt mapping to this context. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2012_Mali_Crisis To help contributors classify roads more appropriately in the context of the development countries, we also started the OSM Mali highway tag wiki page that is now renamed Highway Tag Africa. I already had discussions with Tom at the time about his health condition plus his medical treatments. He was too sick to have a constant presence. After various absences, Tom was back in 2015. Other then for the Learning group, Tom contributed to the Nepal response in april and was still contributing in december.
Like for many other volunteers, I am convinced that contributing to humanitarian responses helped him to give more sense to his life, to make it usefull. Yes, Tom had a charming personnality and we will miss him. Pierre
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