The humanitarian OpenStreetMap Community Working Group has taken the decision to revisit our scope and purpose.

We want to better serve…

• OSM communities in places vulnerable to humanitarian crisis or experiencing multidimensional poverty
• Communities or orgs that use (or want to use) OSM for social impact
• People that want to show solidarity with these communities through collaboration and support.

…and be less focused on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) specifically.

In order to work out how to evolve, we would like to invite interested people to join us in one hour workshops to try and understand what scope, principles and objectives will serve this new purpose. We would love to have a diversity of people and perspectives inform this work.

The insights from these workshops will be used to inform a draft of the working group’s new terms of reference, which will be published in advance for consultation.

It does not matter if you have engaged with the working group in the past or whether you plan to in the future (although you are always more than welcome).

There are two one-hour workshops available if you would like to share your perspectives:

• 11 February, 20:00 UTC
• 12 February, 08:00 UTC

If these times available aren’t convenient for you, but you would like to give your opinion, please feel free to leave a comment or email me at pete.masters @ hotosm.org and we can organise an alternative.