I have archived task #1957, per your request. I gave permission to someone from a working group, I don’t remember which one, to archive any open tasks under my username. This was several months ago, and unfortunately I didn’t realize that they had not yet done so. Thank you for letting me know.

I’m still working out my thoughts about the specific term “hOSM”, but it does feel incongruous to me that the term is being used with the positive intent of not associating all things that have to do with humanitarian work + OSM with HOT (which I think is an important goal to pursue), and yet, to my understanding, the term was created and is being used almost solely by HOT staff so far. To me, it seems to have sprung up overnight without any community input. I could be wrong about its origins, and please let me know if I am.

However, if the term was created by and is being primarily pushed by HOT staff, then the introduction of “hOSM” seems to me to be more of HOT’s reaction to criticism that HOT in the past has taken undue credit for humanitarian-related OSM work than something that is driven and requested by any broader community(ies). Hope this makes sense!