[Board] Congratulations and Future collaborations - Board2Board

[Mark Iliffe]

Dear Miriam and OSGeo Friends,

Firstly, I want to make it very clear that I offer these thoughts on a personal basis and hold zero position of leadership in the OSGeo apparatus, bar charter membership and membership of the Conference Committee :-)

That being said… Congratulations on your election!! I believe that yours and HOT’s success in your ‘audacious’ goals will ultimately bring a new generation of mappers to the fore! In the coming years, I truly hope that we collectively can deliver on the promise that, hopefully, we started to collectively define at FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es Salaam. 

Your proposal to convene a "Board to Board" is a very interesting one, especially as we have unique challenge in front us; I hope that it is an event that it would be possible to participate as an observer :-). Wishing you the very best in your new role and really hope that we can bring the communities closer together :-)

Best,

Mark 

[1]  http://ggim.un.org/meetings/GGIM-committee/10th-Session/documents/Covid-19_Ready-to-Respond.pdf <http://ggim.un.org/meetings/GGIM-committee/10th-Session/documents/Covid-19_Ready-to-Respond.pdf> 


> On 16 Dec 2020, at 09:07, Miriam Gonzalez <miriam at hotosm.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear fellow OsGeo Board Members,
> 
> First of all I hope this email finds you and your loved ones healthy. 
> On behalf of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Board I would like to congratulate you for the recent elections and having a diverse Board full of talented people (that personally I admire so much!!!).
> 
> As you might know in HOT we have the goal to map during the next 5 years 1 billion people who live in 94 countries which face different challenges. Some of the discussions we are having are related  to how we can make sure the data created is linked with tools (specially Open Source) that can change people's realities.
> 
> I would like to have a first approach Board to Board to introduce ourselves and find a way to collaborate together in the future. 
> 
> If you like this idea, I would like to hear your thoughts and set up some tentative dates to meet. 
> 
> Looking forward to start a collaboration,
> 
> 
> Miriam González
> President Board of Directors
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap 
> miriam at hotosm.org <mailto:miriam at hotosm.org>
> @mapanauta
> 
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