ColoradoCamp20100116Report
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[edit] January 16th Camp Report
- Author: Jamaica Jones
Congrats and kudos to each of you. Yesterday was a huge success, both within our camp in Denver and nationwide. As a whole, the national CrisisCamp effort made tremendous progress yesterday - progress that is already being utilized in direct ways to help citizens and crisis workers in Haiti.
A recent and remarkable example is this: Apple approved within a matter of hours an edition of Gaia GPS that provides maps of the earthquake zone. The maps can be downloaded by folks on the ground, and used offline. http://www.gaiagps.com/news/article/Haiti%20Gaia%20GPS%20Approved%20Right%20Away
Kate has worked with members of the national coordinating team to create two spots in Github where code from yesterday can be shared. Those are:
The first one is a clone of the TwitagSearch code. The second repository is a combination of Lee Becker's code + the code being worked on at CrisisCampSV.
For those of you working on the Language and Translation project, the XML Creole/English dictionary can be found at http://github.com/rikace/creole-english-dictionary.
If you continue to work, please document your progress on the wiki. I myself will continue to research images and rights into for the picto-speak cards, and will update the wiki accordingly.
As a final note, I am haunted by Natabara Rollosson's words about celebrating the history and culture of Haiti, hopefully guarding against the typically short attention span afforded to struggling countries and communities crushed by crises. If any of you have thoughts about how we might pool our collective intelligence and skills in effort to advocate for Haiti over the long term, I'd love to chat.
You all did an incredible thing yesterday. I hope you each appropriately proud, and that you were as inspired as I was by the day's events. Thanks again - I look forward to seeing you again soon.
