Agenda & Notes January 26, 2010

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Upcoming Camps This Weekend

• NYC - Lead Anna Curren annapembertoncurran (at) gmail.com
• DC - Lead Heather Blanchard/Andrew Turner (Noel is in Miami) heatherleeblanchard (at) gmail.com
• Toronto - Lead: Heather Leson heatherleson (at) gmail.com
• London - Alan McNeil Jackson alan (at) aptivate.org and Barry obazas (at) googlemail.com
• Chicago - Deborah Shaddon dshaddon at) comcast.net
• Montreal - Lorraine Craig crisiscampmontreal (at) gmail.com

Schedule of Needs

• Wednesday Night - Draft email with information on evergreen projects (OSM, RSS), communication means (IRC) and connecting with city organizers
• Thursday Night - Project Calls
• Friday Night - Wrap Up

Evergreen Projects

• • Open Street Map - Background: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti - Lead: filbertk (at) gmail.com (Location - DC)
  • RSS Collection - Background: http://www.crisiscommons.org/node/36 - Lead: Chris Penn cantormath (at) gmail.com, Roger Rustad scubacuda (at) gmail.com, Sean Yamana sean.yamana at) gmail.com (Location: CA)
  • Diaspora (Haitian Voices & Open Solace - should they be combined?) - joe (at) intridea.com and chris (at) intridea.comto work with annapembertoncurran (at) gmail.com
  • TechAid (Project ticket system & volunteer database): http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/TechAid Leads: East Coast: Son Tran @sont West Coast: Chad Catacchio @chadcat Skype: chadcat
  • CrisisWiki - Background: http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/index.php?title=Crisis_Wiki Lead - Andy Carvin (acarvin (at) npr.org)
  • Usability - Lead: hunter (at) hunterwhitney.com
  • Governance - Lead: Heather Blanchard heatherleeblanchard (at) gmail.com

CrisisCommons Development

• Input into the Vision, Mission, Governance to develop CrisisCommons

Notes from the call - Please contribute below here

• Heather from TO will be reaching out to TechAid - virtual workgroup
• Project Mgt Team created a new form, will look at the PDF forms to incorporate - will get this out tomorrow
• Interest in pre-game information for the camps, especially projects and attendees skill sets
• Virtual volunteers - need to do more to highlight these beyond the camps
• Hunter Whitney will be leading up a mini-camp on Usability this Saturday in Silicon Valley
• Governance - needs to be a cradle to grave review of the development lifecycle and governance structure associated with projects
• There are rapid develop usability tools - also non-tech folks are great resources for usability
• There will be a bug tracking tool deployed