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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

Sign Up and Get Involved

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Please join the Google Group for discussion, planning, and updates.

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

Organizers

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

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.

Experience with Ruby

Haitian Voices needs coders
Tweak the Tweet needs coders

Experience with Python

Hospital capacity project
Sahana

Experience with PHP

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

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

Experience with Drupal

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

Misc. Development Languages, Yahoo Pipes

UN RSS Aggregator

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

Experience with Mobile

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

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

General Software Testing

Disaster accountability project (Austin)

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

Emergency Preparedness / Disaster Preparedness

CrisisWiki (NPR)

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

City Reports

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

End-of-Day (5:30 pm MST)

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