Thanks Tyler. This community truly inspires with offline and online connections.
Thanks everyone Heather Heather Leson [email protected] Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Tyler Radford <[email protected]> wrote: > This week is National Volunteer Week in the US and Canada (I'm extending > it to all of you, regardless of where you live). As we close out the week, > I'd like to take a moment to say thank you to each of you for being part of > the HOT global community. We are incredibly unique and fortunate to have > such dedicated volunteers. In fact, volunteers account for more than 99% of > our global team -- 20,000 of you have contributed to HOT activities since > 2010. Mapping alone accounted for an estimated 165,000 hours of volunteer > time [1] over the years! > > I often hear terms like "virtual volunteers" or "digital volunteers". > While "digital" may describe the way we work, it most certainly does not > describe you -- the very real volunteers in our global community. You are > real people, making real things take place, and having real positive impact > on people's lives. No matter how you contribute -- whether it's through > mapping remotely or on the ground, participating in or leading one of our > working groups, organizing mapathons, helping new contributors, publishing > research, spreading the word about HOT, utilizing HOT-generated data, or > donating funds or equipment -- we rely on you! > > Thank you for giving your time and energy to HOT. > Tyler > > [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dekstop/diary/37841 > > *Tyler Radford* > Executive Director > [email protected] > @TylerSRadford > > *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* > *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* > web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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