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[edit] January 25, 2010
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[edit] January 24, 2010
[edit] January 23, 2010
- CrisisCamp Day!
- A new channel for CrisisCamp leaders has been created called #crisiscampleads which you can access through http://irc.rhok.org
[edit] January 22, 2010
- Two new press releases were put out today, announcing the camps and explaining projects. See the media page on Crisiscommons.org
- Watch Current TV's detailed profile of CrisisCamp Los Angeles [1]
- Sahana has put out a call for help to CrisisCommons volunteers to help plot hospital locations on a map http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php/haiti:geolocatehospitalchallenge
- Conference calls planned for today:
- RSS Feed Challenge call: 1130am Eastern, 830am Pacific (1-218-486-3848, conference id 314158)
[edit] January 21, 2010
- Nightly conference calls will start splitting into project-related calls, at 9pm Eastern. Awaiting details on breakdown and calling instructions.
- Haiti OSM Garmin GPS maps are being used by Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue team in Haiti http://bit.ly/658vo1
- Google has granted permission for OpenStreetMap volunteers to trace from 15cm imagery covering Port-au-Prince, allowing identification of a large number of camps that were missed in imagery previously available.
- There are now 11 CrisisCamps set for Saturday. See: [2], including Bogota, Colombia; Montreal and Toronto in Canada.
- The first major project completed by CrisisCamp Haiti: We Have We Need at http://www.wehaveweneed.org/
- This evening's conference call was at 7pm Eastern.
[edit] January 20, 2010
- More international CrisisCamps added. Bogota, Colombia and Montreal added to the list
- Atrium site deprecated. During conference call today, group decided not to use this site anymore: http://haiti.crisiscommons.org/atrium/home
- IRC changed. The Internet address for the IRC server changed from irc.rhok.org to irc.rhok.net. This might have messed up peoples' client configurations, so this link is now the operational one: irc.rhok.net.
- London CrisisCamp added. London's Thursday CrisisCamp has been added to the list of the camps at http://crisiscommons.org
- REQUEST: RSS news feeds. We still need much help on creating a definitive list of news sources for Haiti earthquake news. Please see the wiki page to help out: Haiti_RSS_Feed_Challenge.
- Daily conference call. The daily conference call continues at 5pm Eastern US time (2pm Pacific US Pacific). (619) 276-6333 PIN is 411911, 5:00EST European Rondee Bridge (Germany): +49 157-02488180 UK and Canada added see Telecommunications section in Wiki
This is to help people keep in touch with what's going on in the project. Please post high signal, informative messages. Started by User:Fuzheado (Andrew Lih)
