Humanitarian OSM Team/February2011ConfCall
Past event. We had a HOT conference call on Wed 16th Feb 2011
It's been an amazing year for OpenStreetMap and the H.O.T. community. We've supported humanitarian efforts and built capacities on every continent. Starting this month, there are almost 40 Haitians working on OSM full-time supporting the cholera response as the result of efforts by the community. We've incorporated HOT as a formal organization and are in the final stretch of obtaining 501c3 certification. Thanks to a partnership with SPOT we have increased access to raw imagery and there are ongoing conversations with a few other providers that will hopefully provide an even greater range of options soon. But there's a lot of work left to be done. Many goals which we've set out for ourselves that we haven't yet reached. The great news is that there are a lot of people who would like to be more involved.
A few of us thought an open conference call would let members of the community share what they've been working on, prioritize a few projects that could use some extra hands, and find some general consensus on how to best move forward.
Draft Agenda
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- Update on Haiti
- Sections communales Boundaries to revise and Populated places to complete
- Other Responses (Colombia, Pakistan, Cote d'Ivoire, Brazil)
- SPOT and other imagery providers
- The Humanitarian Data Model, ETL Services, and Symbology
- Website, help with design and content needed
- The HOT Wiki pages, need updating
- Documentation and Training Materials need review and translation
- Activation Protocols for coordination and interacting with other responders
- Simulation/Training Sessions. Review of previous (MapAction, Standby Task Force, Camp Roberts), and further possibilities.
- Technical Needs, there are many coding opportunities (Collaboration tools. Toolkits for setting up wiki pages in activation. Tasking server. Imagery portioner. Mobile data collection. Mapsomatic customization)
Call in details
The call will be on Wednesday, Feburary 16th at 12:00pm EST. Conf call line is being provided by CrisisCommons; dial in details are posted to http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Telephone_Bridge. We will have a backchannel on irc.oftc.net, channel #hot. You can post your questions and comments there during the call, and the facilitator will bring you into the discussion.