[Belgium] Mapping facilities for homeless people - Save the date : 27/02/2016

[Dirk Frigne]

Maelle,

I like the "create additional bridge between associations and citizens"
part. This is real 'community' building.

Dirk.

On 02-02-16 12:05, Maelle Vercauteren wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> As you know, we are planning our 'Mapping party for homeless people' on
> Saturday, February 27. This reflects the first concrete step following
> our meeting on December 2 in order to bring our expertise to
> organizations helping homeless people.
> 
> Concretely this event type Citizen ' Mapathon' aims to map out
> (OpenStreetMaps) useful resources for people in precarious situations.
> 
> 
> This is a first Brussels collaborative experience in this thematic,
> admittedly imperfect, but which following long-term vision :
> 
> - Create additional bridge between associations and citizens
> 
> - Cooperation- collaboration to avoid doingsolitarily what could be done
> together
> 
> - Maximize the use of existing free resources
> 
> - Production of well-organized resources to minimize update and
> maintenance tasks
> 
> and so contributing directly to many organizations, similar (but
> different) to what is done by the HOT team to NGOs like the Red Cross
> and MSF
> (https://www.cartong.org/news/collaboration-hotmsfcartong-guinea-crisis). The
> significance of this day is to evaluate if this initiative is working
> and realize its opportunities but also its limitations, and if necessary
> make adjustments ((in-) training, drafting a charter, development of new
> tools ...).
> 
> 
> To provide training for field workers, we would start the day with an
> introduction of the given tool by 1-2 people from OSM. Once this step is
> completed, volunteers may begin adding new data (cue points, fountains,
> toilets, etc.), Making the map a valuable tool...
> 
> 
> Do not hesitate to give your feedback before Wednesday 3, the idea is to
> launch official invitations Thursday, February 4th.
> 
> 
> 
> More information on the shared document:
> https://mypads.framapad.org/mypads/?/mypads/group/cartopartie-27-02-2015-k331q7cd/pad/view/cartopartie-27-02-2015-z632q762
> 
> 
> Once the version is finalized, we could translate it into NL and ENGL
> and put it on the wiki OSGeo and ...
> 
> 
> For the board, is it ok to put on the OSGeo Wiki that there is a
> OSGeo.be collaboration with Poppy and Dewey?
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance for your return and nice afternoon to all of you,
> 
> 
> Maë//e
> 
> 2016-01-22 12:19 GMT+01:00 Maelle Vercauteren <mavercau at ulb.ac.be
> <mailto:mavercau at ulb.ac.be>>:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     The « mapping party for homeless people » will take place in
>     Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles,
> 
>     on Saturday, February 27.  
> 
>     Save the date!!!
> 
> 
>     As a reminder, we would like to help mapping of Brussels facilities
>     and services for homeless people. You can find a digest based on the
>     first meeting with people from la Strada, Médecins du Monde, the
>     Red-Cross, l'Association des Maisons d'Accueil, Sant'Egidio & Street
>     nurses (full document available upon request).
> 
>     More details will come soon !
> 
> 
>     Christophe (Poppy <http://www.my-poppy.eu/>), Gaël (OSGeo.be
>     <http://OSGeo.be>), Mathieu (Dewey <http://maps.dewey.be/>), Maë//e
>     (OSGeo.be <http://OSGeo.be>) and Victor (Dewey <http://maps.dewey.be/>)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Maëlle VERCAUTEREN DRUBBEL
> Coordinatrice du stage SIG Libres ARES
> 
> Université Libre de Bruxelles - 
IGEAT (CP 130 / 03)

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