This year I had an amazing opportunity to participate in the HOT Data Quality Intership, being chosen to participate in these twelve weeks was the best thing that happened to me this year, I felt as if all my work on OpenStreetMap was recognized at that moment. I would like to thank everyone who shared their knowledge in the trainings and also to the project coordinators Sam and Becky thank you very much!

Without a doubt it was an experience that I will take for life, I met incredible people from many different countries…

No doubt it is a unique program for OpenStreetMap mappers and helps the community to grow, giving this opportunity to inspire and support young people like me to learn more about OSM and the ecosystem around us is priceless, I imagine that like me my colleagues continued to contribute to OSM in their local communities…

Here I must emphasize the importance of programs like Data Quality Intership in being able to fund and impact local communities around the world, perhaps it would be interesting to expand the program to the mapping hubs.

The future of OSM is not in closed teams maintained by companies that often do not know the reality of what they are mapping, the future of OSM is in funding the work of young volunteers and their communities giving them the opportunity to learn and improve their skills, well structured local communities know what is missing on the map and what they want to map, they know the region better.

For the future I intend to continue to apply what I learned during these 12 weeks and help the Brazilian community, I intend to continue mapping with the projects in TaskManager, I am still planning to have a more solid base for 2022 but I intend to continue with my work mapping cities in my state.

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