Re: [HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

2015-03-09 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, This is great news! Thank you so much for running for Board member Jorieke! Jorieke is exactly the kind of person I think we will be lucky to have sit on our Board. She is an enthusiastic supporter of local OSM communities and backs up her talk with action and field work! Her

Re: [HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

2015-03-09 Thread FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA
Hi everyone I work with Jorieke for three weeks in a country in West Africa on OSM. I can tell you that his method of working with local communities is impressive. It has easy contact with communities and is very attentive and passionate about his work. I think that HOT gain much to have person

Re: [HOT] 10 Years of OSM + HOT?

2015-03-09 Thread James Conkling
Hey Mikel et al, Glad to see there's work being done on a TM API. I've been trying to load the tasks.json file into an external app so I can monitor the progress of some HOT projects (the API docs https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/wiki/API#tasks suggest this should be exposed now,

Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

2015-03-09 Thread Kristen Egermeier
Kate has been a dear friend and an incredible mentor over the many years we've now known each other. I will miss her at HOT but I'm so excited for her new opportunity! Working with Kate has been incredible. I've learned so much about leadership and dedication, and I hope to carry on her calm,

Re: [HOT] 10 Years of OSM + HOT?

2015-03-09 Thread Mikel Maron
Huh I had thought that CORS was enabled for the OSMTM api ... is that not the case Drazen or Pierre? * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Monday, March 9, 2015 1:36 PM, James Conkling james.lane.conkl...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Mikel et al, Glad to see there's work

Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

2015-03-09 Thread Alex Barth
Kate thanks for all your hard work and leadership to support and grow the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team. Much luck for the new challenge, I'm glad you're not going far, staying in the open source mapping realm! On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Kate Chapman kate.chap...@hotosm.org wrote: Dear

[HOT] Executive Director transition plans

2015-03-09 Thread Harry Wood
Dear Hotties, With Kate’s announcement, we have a busy few weeks ahead and we very much want to ask for your help in pursuing next steps. And, we want to assure you that the HOT Board is here to make this transition go well. First off, Kate, from all of the current board members, let me say

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-09 Thread Denis Carriere
Hey Ahasanul, Here's an example of a project that was created during an OpenData hackathon in Canada at CODE [1]. http://ecotrust-canada.github.io/hypochondriapp/ It shows you regional wide statistical data from a country using boundary files, you could replicate this type of application for

Re: [HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

2015-03-09 Thread Heather Leson
Merci Fofana. Jorieke, Thank you for you dedication to local communities. And welcome as a fellow nominee. Heather On Mar 9, 2015 8:01 PM, FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA fofana.13b...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone I work with Jorieke for three weeks in a country in West Africa on OSM. I can tell you

[HOT] 907 Malawi Floods 2015

2015-03-09 Thread Andrew Patterson
I currently working in Task 241 and would welcome some advice about tagging or even plotting a feature. Running more or less across the middle of the Task square is a very wide and meandering feature, which if it had been full of water, I would have identified as a river. Having followed the

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-09 Thread Ahasanul Hoque
wow!!! its an amazing app Denis. Thank you very much for the links. I have decided that we will go for point data for households. Take care Ahasan On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Denis Carriere carriere.de...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Ahasanul, Here's an example of a project that was created

Re: [HOT] Executive Director transition plans

2015-03-09 Thread Pierre Béland
Harry, It is not to the Board to intervene in the Nomination process and I dont agree that the process should be revised with Kate announcing today her choice.    Pierre De : Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk À : hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 9 mars 2015

Re: [HOT] Installing JOSM on Mac OS

2015-03-09 Thread john whelan
Thanks John On 9 March 2015 at 14:41, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I emailed the user with instructions to upgrade Java on OS X Leopard. Basically a special app is needed to install Java on older systems. Pacifist, www.charlessoft.com, has an app to install the jdk7.x.dmg file

Re: [HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

2015-03-09 Thread Jorieke Vyncke
Hi Blake, Fofana, Heather and all, Thanks a lot for your support and lovely words!! And if you have questions, please don't hesitate! Best greetings, Jorieke 2015-03-09 18:05 GMT+01:00 Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com: Merci Fofana. Jorieke, Thank you for you dedication to local

Re: [HOT] Executive Director transition plans

2015-03-09 Thread Harry Wood
That's very brief email Pierre. I can try to read between the lines but... would it be too much to ask for you to explain *why* you don't agree? Are you saying that Kate should not have announced her choice today? The timing of today's announcement was a bit of tricky decision (discussed and

Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

2015-03-09 Thread john whelan
I think that radomised controlled trials might well be useful. Perhaps we could see which projects are successful and pick out those that the mappers are more satisfied with but only on the premise that happy mappers are less likely to drop out. I haven't expressed that well but I seethe

[HOT] Birth of a New E-Mail List - HOT Announcements Only

2015-03-09 Thread Blake Girardot
Announcing the HOT Announce E-mail List We have gotten several requests for an easy way for volunteers, donors, supporters and other people interested in HOT's activities to keep up-to-date with activations, programs, events, fundraising drives and other important news related to the Humanitarian

Re: [HOT] Canaan Haiti Mapping

2015-03-09 Thread FredM
Hello Dale, very good initiative to have a massive use of Mapillary. For OSM Haiti side, We just finished processing of the drones images ( February 2015 including infrared). We still have a lot of cleaning to do, because we want to extract the land cover and height of the building. Concerning

[HOT] Extension to the HOT Board/Chair Nomination Period

2015-03-09 Thread Russell Deffner
Greetings HOT, I, on behalf of the 2015 Board and Chair Election Committee, announce an extension to the nomination period. The updated election timeline is now: - Nomination period began 23 February 2015 and will now conclude at 23:59 UTC on 12 March 2015. - Campaign/Ballot/voting period

[HOT] HOT meetup at WCDRR in Sendai?

2015-03-09 Thread maning sambale
Probably some of you will join the WCDRR [0] in Sendai this weekend. I will be in the Asia Resilience Forum [1]. Might be good to informally meet fellow HOTties. [0] http://www.wcdrr.org/ [1] http://resilienceforum.asia/ -- cheers, maning --

Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

2015-03-09 Thread Harry Wood
Many people will know that Kate has been at the core of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team from the beginning, doing a very professional job of building the organisation as a whole, and particularly the side of the organisation which does things like giving staff contracts and salaries,

Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

2015-03-09 Thread Heather Leson
HI Kate, thank you very much for all your dedication. The first time I really understood the potential of HOT was viewing your video right after the Haiti earthquake. Your efforts to build the organization and support the community have been inspiring. HOT has become a successful digital

[HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

2015-03-09 Thread Jorieke Vyncke
Hi all, After seeing all the discussions, mails and reflecting a long time, I finally decided. To run. Not to run away, but to run for the board. In my eyes the heart of HOT is the community, not the board. Because in the community, that’s where things are happening: all the remote