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## HOT Summit - Community and collaboration checkin
# Reflections - Updates Community health, Diversity and Inclusion

Event: Monday, November 22, 2021 1600 UTC/ 1600 CET   HOT - https://www.hotosm.org/

**Background**
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Etiquette

**About this document:**
* it is a public, shared docoument. We will write a blog post about the insights, outcomes
* instruction: we will ask people to type in the chat or in this document. Also ask people to join the stage to talk 



# ** Agenda in 4 parts **
1. Introduction and updates LCCWG Sub-committee (brief), HOTOSM and beyond. 
2. We are a global community - share your quick examples - what inspired you in this community this year? Share some highlights on how you think diversity and inclusion has improved  
2. What are some of the things that we need to improve? eg. localized governance, shared leadership etc. 
3. Close and next steps - what can we do next individual, network

 
**NOTES**
# Examples of inspiration
How many people care about diversity & inclusion in OSM!
Steven Johnson's map along sessions
Community Working Group webinars
HOT Data Quality internship (their discussions in Slack, the variety of training they have, etc)
Mapping with children! (Mapswipe, Map roulette, Street Complete, what about doing some kind of OSM map based scavenger hunt?)
@esopenstreetmap twitter account live tweeting en Espanol 
Asia Pacific Mappy Hour
OSM Africa mapathons - rooms in english, french, arabic, swahili
Etiquette guidelines, moderators, in OSM community

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    more online conversations/webinars

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    more pairing/mentoring/peers

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    improve contributor /user experience

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    language/timezones

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    tools/processes

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    fun - games/learning

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7.programs focused on gender


# What can we improve
Localisation - including more languages!
TECHNOLOGY - much much easier ways to map are needed
Contributor and user experience-- "service design approach"
do we have any kind of newbie welcome guide? how do guidelines get adapted to different people/users
Is there a mechanism by which one could request a "mapping along" session with some experienced mapper that happens to be online? >> examples https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidojo 
How do we get people more excited about governance?
linking members to local hubs and communities
What inspires me about HOT is that it found the sweet spot between the digital and on-the-ground response
help lobby for more internet access for our communities/ and create data access /packages as part of your projects


# What can we do next to help this journey? 
OSM map based scavenger hunt for children (Mikko Tamura knows a bit about this)
OSM Jeapordy game
Some OSM-centric version of things like [Everything is connected](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_of_the_Everything_is_connected_puzzle_From_poppies_to_New_York_City.png) or the [Wikidata Guessr](https://guessr.morr.cc/) or geocaching
connecting people for pair mapping via slack groups: donut.com/
use open source tools
optimizing channels for different people: better ways of communication (that don't rely on reading loads of slack updates or need loads of time)
voting member engagement
Captioning /transcription on everything that is video based. This not only helps for language and translation, but also for hard of hearing people, as well as for people who can't afford the data to stream video meetings.
engaging with corporations join.osmfoundation.org/welcome-to-the-openstreetmap-foundation/

**Summary**
How can we keep fostering dialogue and actions to improve OSM and HOT. A group of us have co-hosted a session at the HOT summit for years on diversity, inclusion, and community health. Many people were involved in the Call to Action memo and the subsequent 'LCCWG subcommittee on etiquette'. We will share some highlights of past efforts to keep this dialogue moving and then request input into the future. This session would be an open dialogue space to keep the momentum and keep improving. The recommendation is to give positive,concrete next steps. 

Background
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Etiquette

**Theme relevance:**

Local community in global ecosystem - how to improve diversity and inclusion


** Short bio of the (main) speaker(s) ***

I can cohost - they want a human focal point. But will state as 'co-curated'
Would prefer it is listed as geochicas, lccwg and community network 