Thanks Blake, once we can catch a break it is my intention to update the courses as they are about 2 years old already which is a bit shocking to me. Mainly just wanted to let everyone know my email is [email protected]
Typing this from our small Puerto Rico mapathon here at State of the Map - US, =Russ > On Oct 21, 2017, at 3:39 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > The amount of help you all have provided over the last 6-7 weeks is > outstanding and I have many thanks from major organizations around the > world to pass on to each and everyone of you. My inbox has several > requests to pass on thanks you, everyone who has OSM mapped or helped > with any HOT/OSM activity ever literally. > > So many people have really stepped up and helped, dedicated so much > care and effort to helping in whatever small way we could and several > folks have really stepped up gone above and beyond, probably working > too much. You have all done awesome work and many organizations, some > huge and some small, have used the data you generated to make a > difference in people's lives. > > Which leads me to the topic of this email. > > The HOT Activation teams have really done incredible work, many long > hours for several weeks in a row now, some of them volunteering more > than full time for 7 straight weeks. > > Professionalism, experience, continuity and dedication are critical. > > Self care and community care are just as critical. > > This means, taking breaks, taking time off, making sure you and your > peers are getting enough sleep, food, water. I have the honor of > volunteering alongside you and other dedicated, tops in their field, > people who continually amaze me at their high level of skills, > experience and professionalism making a huge difference to people on > the ground. The only way we can all maximize our impact is by taking > care of ourselves too. 8 hours off is worth so much more than 20 hours > straight. > > So please, let us all take a few moments to make sure we are meeting > all our self care needs and make yourself feel good by taking a break > for a job amazingly done so far. > > But that also means we need people to join the Activation teams so > people can feel even better taking time off for self care. > > In the big picture everyone is part of the activation team, everyone > who maps, edits the wiki, helps or has helped HOT/OSM in any way in > the past (the OSM data has been built over years and every bit of it > is important) is part of the activation team. > > But there is a HOT Activation protocol and there are formal roles that > make a commitment and take on real responsibility for several parts of > an activation. It just takes available time and experience and > knowledge to fill one of the formal roles. HOT has a process to bring > people's skills up in the Activation Coordination process, formal > teams and roles. And you can learn how to get started joining an > activation team by taking the self paced courses that train you to be > a part of an Activation team. > > There are only 2, top level, fully peer endorsed Activation Leads at > the moment. That means they have completed every course in the > Activation Coordination group of courses. And they have gone further > and helped out in every role over the course of a few years, in actual > or simulated activations and earned the edorsement of their peers. > > (There are several of you reading this email who are fully qualified > of course and can step in for any role in any activation, including > Lead, just as you have done for years, you just have not gone through > the courses and requested the peer endorsement. The content of the > course is so good, you want to click through them all. I promise you > it will not be a waste of your time, but it will take a few days to > click through them all. Trust me, it is worth it. Just watch the video > below and you will be able to click through each course in about 20 > mins just as I did in the video, I think there are 11 courses.) > > The online course software is not great, but the content is amazing. > You will learn what you need to know and feel confident contributing > to the world of Activation coordination. HOT/OSM needs you. > > I just took the Community Care course as I know it is something we > needed and I wanted to see what we should be doing. > > I created a 20 minute long, very informal (that means I mumble a lot > and talk too softly) video in American English that shows you how to > use the HOT Courses website to take a course and I walk through the > full content of the Community Care course. The information in the > course itself is something we all need. I encourage everyone to at > least suffer through the video and read along with me as we learn most > of the great material in that important course together. > > The signs and symptoms section and the how to self care parts are the > most important sections to listen to. > > Try to make it through the whole thing as there is important > information throughout the whole video about self care, even if some > parts might not apply to you. Read the video description carefully. > > https://youtu.be/Tlrj84pazIw > > Thank you Russ for making such a great course! > > Any questions or problems taking courses, just contact me or > [email protected] directly. > > As I often say: It is really an honor to be able to say, I look > forward to working with everyone on this list in the future in some > way! > > And literally millions of people around the world thank you for > joining with them as they face the most harrowing of circumstances. > > As Heather likes to say: "Lets all go be awesome together!" > > Respectfully > blake > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------- > Blake Girardot > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
