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Contents 1 The Event 2 Sign Up and Get Involved 3 Getting Connected at the Camp 4 Organizers 5 Sponsors 6 Connecting with Projects 6.1 Experience with Ruby 6.2 Experience with Python 6.3 Experience with PHP 6.4 Experience with GEO/GIS 6.5 Experience with Drupal 6.6 Misc. Development Languages, Yahoo Pipes 6.7 Experience with Interaction Design / UX 6.8 Experience with Mobile 6.9 Experience with SugarCRM or CiviCRM 6.10 General Software Testing 6.11 Experience with French or Creole Language 6.12 Emergency Preparedness / Disaster Preparedness 6.13 Projects for Everybody 7 City Reports 7.1 Mid-Day (12:30 pm MST) 7.2 End-of-Day (5:30 pm MST)

[edit] The Event

• Date: Saturday, January 23rd
• Time: 10am - 5pm MST
• Meet us at the 8z / COhomfinder office, in south Boulder
• 4041 Hanover Ave, Boulder, 80305

[edit] Sign Up and Get Involved

• Please Sign In to the Google Doc Spreadsheet click here to sign in
• Please join the Google Group for discussion, planning, and updates.

[edit] Getting Connected at the Camp

• Sign-in Google Doc
• Main projects list
• IRC: IRC chat - irc.rhok.org
  • Recommended IRC clients: Colloquy (Mac), mIRC (Windows), xchat (X Windows/Linux) or just use the web interface
  • Most projects will run a project-specific chatroom, e.g., #ccrssa for RSS Aggregator, #cchhcf for Haiti Hospital Capacity Finder
  • Join #ccboulder for the camp-specific chat

[edit] Organizers

Jamaica Jones - (jones DOT jamaica AT gmail DOT com) Corey Snipes - (corey AT twomile DOT com) - twitter: @yessoprince - skype: coreysnipes

[edit] Sponsors

These people have given generously, to help make this camp happen. Please support and thank them!

• 8z / COhomfinder - Space!
• Arabseque - a middle eastern cafe on Walnut @ 16th - Snacks!
• Dan Moore Moore Consulting - Lunch!

[edit] Connecting with Projects

We have identified several projects that have real audiences, and need help on Saturday. See the skills/areas list below, for pointers to project info.

[edit] Experience with Ruby

• Haitian Voices needs coders
• Tweak the Tweet needs coders

[edit] Experience with Python

• Hospital capacity project
• Sahana

[edit] Experience with PHP

• Check with standing Drupal projects (crisiscommons.org, RSS Aggregator)

[edit] Experience with GEO/GIS

• Haiti Basemap needs lots of help improving the basemap
• OSM: improving humanitarian tags needs more technical help with the OSM toolset

[edit] Experience with Drupal

• Crisiscommons.org needs frequent updates and tweaks - join #crisiscommons on IRC

[edit] Misc. Development Languages, Yahoo Pipes

• UN RSS Aggregator

[edit] Experience with Interaction Design / UX

• Pict o Speak Mobile - Talk to Jamaica
• Sahana test and improve UX/design
• Good people to connect with: Gavin (gavin_t) in IRC, Chris Blow (chrisblow in IRC, @unthinkingly)
• Testing and UX/Design recommendations for Disaster Accountability Public Database
• Haitian Voices needs design review and recommendations
• CrisisWiki may need help; connect with Hunter Whitney (@hunterwhitney)
• UN RSS Aggregator needs usability review and recommendations

[edit] Experience with Mobile

• See cross-camp mobile devs team - Mobile 4 Crisis
• World Bank - Disaster Assessment Mobile app
• Android - testing mobile version of peoplefinder

[edit] Experience with SugarCRM or CiviCRM

• open-source required
• CrisisCommons needs a system to manage volunteer contact info
• May complement or be part of the TechAid effort

[edit] General Software Testing

• Disaster accountability project (Austin)

[edit] Experience with French or Creole Language

• See "language and translation" project
• Ushahidi (esp 4636.ushahidi.com) (Red Cross and other orgs on the ground)
• Sahana localization
• Pict-o-speak
• UN RSS Aggregator may need language guidance for international feeds

[edit] Emergency Preparedness / Disaster Preparedness

• CrisisWiki (NPR)

[edit] Projects for Everybody

• Project List and Overview
• Haiti Basemap enrichment See esp. the intro video
• People Finder http://www.haitianquake.com/converter
• Extraordinaries tagging: http://www.beextra.org/haiti

[edit] City Reports

[edit] Mid-Day (12:30 pm MST)

• POC: Corey Snipes - coreysnipes in IRC, corey AT twomile.com
• 18 in-person attendees.
• Project teams are formed and working, everyone else on independent research and assistance with other teams
• We had some signups for remote help, but were not able to engage them this morning. Currently no remote helpers active.

Project Teams:

• Spinoff from Tweak the Tweet team, social media + family connections
• Spinoff from Haiti Timeline: time-based and other visualization of Haiti information, may incl. aggregated RSS
• Pict-o-speak (part of Language and Translation), taxonomy development

Also independent work on:

• Personfinder data entry
• Android testing
• Tweak the Tweet rails development

[edit] End-of-Day (5:30 pm MST)

• (Compiling this evening, will post Sunday 1/24/2010)