Hello Blake,
I just checked the Twitter chat link. Is the event for today or did it conclude yesterday? Thanks. best wishes, Soumya > > On March 1, 2017 at 7:00 AM [email protected] wrote: > > Send HOT mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of HOT digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. @DigitalGlobe #opendatachat on twitter today! > (Blake Girardot HOT/OSM) > 2. Re: Leaving my Missing Maps job (Blake Girardot) > 3. Women mapping (Gertrude Hope) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:29:23 +0100 > From: "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" <[email protected]> > To: HOT <[email protected]> > Subject: [HOT] @DigitalGlobe #opendatachat on twitter today! > Message-ID: > <CAJtx3h5A0OAuL1G5uoNM7DiMi9v--hn_nog0xVgG=mcsdqz...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear Friends! > > If you ever wanted to talk to the folks who point satellites and share > with them and hear from others the impact open data has on your > volunteering, your work, your community, etc today is a great chance. > > 12:00 Noon EST > 17:00 GMT > > DigitalGlobe who enable and enhance so much of our work with their > satellite imagery, are hosting a "Twitter Chat" today about #opendata. > > And it is not just DG who will be there, the Director of the UN Office > for Outer Space Affairs Simonetta Di Pippo will be there too! How cool > is that? > > How can you participate? > > Well, that is a good question. I am a total twitter newbie, but I am > told you just need to "follow" the twitter hashtag #opendatachat and > then to ask a question or make a comment, you just tweet and include > that hashtag at the end #opendatachat > > This link will let you "listen" in at least: > https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23opendatachat > https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23opendatachat > > If you google "twitter chat" you will find lots of info and some > applications that make being part of a twitter chat easier. > > I look forward to "seeing" you there and figuring out how to do this > twitter chat thing along with you! > > Cheers > Blake > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Blake Girardot > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > skype: jblakegirardot > HOT Core Team Contact: [email protected] > Live OSM Mapper-Support channel - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:09:55 +0100 > From: Blake Girardot <[email protected]> > To: Pete Masters <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [HOT] Leaving my Missing Maps job > Message-ID: > <CABmB++SjUe3bWPPc1hQ35-REgRcokom=ivbkzk1sgv65kza...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi Pete, > > Congrats on your success making mapping more a part of MSF's work and > on the new gig! > > One of the very best things about volunteering with HOT and Missing > Maps has been the opportunity to meet, hangout and work with you and > through your efforts support MSF's incredible work. > > I am so glad that you will stay a part of the HOT community. > > Best wishes > Blake > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Pete Masters > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello all, I hope you are well... > > > > Apologies for using the mailing list to send a personal message, > > but I feel > > like (and hope) it isn't inappropriate. > > > > My time as coordinator for Missing Maps at MSF is coming to an end > > - last > > week I accepted a new position within MSF working on innovation > > process and > > how we better approach field problems and opportunities. I wanted > > to let > > this community know personally for a few different reasons.... > > > > Firstly, to say thanks for the education. It has been an absolute > > pleasure > > to work with such a varied bunch of dedicated, passionate and > > clever people. > > I have been an MSF fanboy for a long time and I am now a HOT and > > OSM fanboy > > too. My job over the past two and a half years has been to try, as > > much as > > possible, to find the overlaps and opportunities between these two > > (very > > different) organisations and communities. As I hope you have > > noticed, I have > > tried to connect the dots between what the HOT and Missing Maps > > community > > can do for MSF and the impact that that volunteering has on real > > people > > (both our staff in the field and our patients). What you probably > > don't > > know is that I also evangelise HOT / OSM within MSF - not just for > > the > > mapping, but for the principles of openness and teamwork and > > sharing that > > make mapping and collaborating on such a scale possible. > > > > Secondly, because you should know that what you have accomplished > > during > > this past two and a half years through HOT activations and Missing > > Maps > > projects is pretty unprecedented in MSF. Operational people and > > medical > > people within MSF now *expect* to be able to rely on Missing Maps > > and HOT to > > deliver data for decision making in the places we work. The quality > > of your > > work and the dedication you show (often at very short notice) has > > taken the > > project from a suspiciously viewed, disruptive, unorthodox and often > > misunderstood project in MSF into a tool that the people delivering > > aid on > > the ground value and want. That's huge. > > > > Thirdly, I appreciate that there are massive challenges ahead. > > Discussion > > started by Fred on validation is high up that list. As is the scale > > of the > > supply and demand from organisations like MSF. As is how we > > leverage the > > data these organisations are collecting on the ground as part of > > their > > day-to-day to enrich the OSM database (but including how we do that > > in a > > resposible and sustainable way). I have no doubt that together we > > (I fully > > intend to stay a part of the HOT community despite the change in > > day job) > > can address these challenges and whatever comes after. I would like > > to offer > > this opportunity to feed back to me any thoughts you may have on > > the future > > of Missing Maps and MSF or any other feedback you may have. > > > > Lastly, there is going to be a very cool job available at MSF UK. > > Not an > > easy job by any means (the phrase jack of all trades doesn't do it > > justice), > > but a massively fulfilling one. Knowing the talent available > > amongst you, > > I'd strongly encourage you to take a look when the job is > > advertised. > > > > That's it really. It's not goodbye by any means and I look forward > > to > > continuing these discussions beyond the end of my MSF Missing Maps > > job... > > Apologies for the lack of brevity! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Pete > > > > -- > > Pete Masters > > Missing Maps Project Coordinator > > +44 7921 781 518 > > > > missingmaps.org > > > > @pedrito1414 > > @theMissingMaps > > facebook.com/MissingMapsProject > > > > _______________________________________________ > > HOT mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Blake Girardot > OSM Wiki - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot > HOTOSM Member - https://hotosm.org/users/blake_girardot > skype: jblakegirardot > Live OSM Mapper-Support channel - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ > Next best OSM support - https://help.openstreetmap.org/ > BE A PART OF HOT'S MICRO GRANTS: https://donate.hotosm.org/ > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:25:04 +0100 > From: Gertrude Hope <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [HOT] Women mapping > Message-ID: > <CALviEdWhRe=QWQXuaQwdU5=h9mrrc16evpejpwr7vb9ntdy...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello mappers, > > I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all the mapping you > are all doing. As we are celebrating women and girls in the month of March > and for the rest of the year, let's support women by training more women > and girls and also mapping facilities that support women. We are > supporting > this year's theme BE BOLD FOR CHANGE. > > For more information read > https://hotosm.org/updates/2017-02-28_why_women_in_ > mapping_matters_mapping_for_women_and_girls > > -- > Namitala Gertrude > OpenStreetMap Zambia > TruDigital Technologies > [email protected] <[email protected]> > +260-967020779 <+260%2096%207020779> > Skype: trudy.hope2 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/attachments/20170228/e8dad909/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > ------------------------------ > > End of HOT Digest, Vol 85, Issue 1 > > ********************************** >
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