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CrisisCamp Silicon Valley (DMI) is currently focussing on the floods in Pakistan - see the PKfloods pages for more information.

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CrisisCampSiliconValley Pakistan - Around the world Marathon Sept 3

CrisisCampSV volunteers supporting the Pakistan Flooding Relief projects at Mozilla in Mountain View, CA on 3 September 2010

Blog: Blog by Richard Barber (kd6kxr)about Pakistan Flood Aid Projects http://pk.r42.us

Where: Mozilla HQ, 650 Castro St. Mountain View ,CA

Eventbrite:http://ccsv-pkfloodmarathon.eventbrite.com/

Who: Leader: Jeannie Stamberger jeannie.stamberger@sv.cmu.edu @cmusv_dmit, Atul Varma (Leader in training; Mozilla), Melanie Swan, Richard Barber, Andrew Carmain, Hunter Whitney, Sumathi Lingappa, Kiran Vaka, Jono (Mozilla), Sara Yapper (Mozilla), Clint Talbert (Mozilla), Dr.KRS Murthy, Nagendra (Google).

Activities:

We are primarily working on Pakreport crowdflower including: 

categorizing the message backlog

We have been updating and spreading information about PakReport.org Crowdflower. Turns out there are a bunch of useful resouces listed here: http://groups.google.com/group/PakReport-volunteers/web/mapping-links On here you will find spreadsheets with lists of cities and lat and long. There are at least 4 different spreadsheets with data of different levels of authorship and authentication, so keep looking!

and another one is on line and has different people and organization controibuting to it

Finding villages is a problem, so there is a short discussion about use of postal codes: [9:54:50 PM] Faisal Chohan says: http://www.pakpost.gov.pk/postcode/postcode.html [9:55:19 PM] Faisal Chohan says: there is excel file with complete list of postal codes [9:55:52 PM] Faisal Chohan says: 2394 postal codes [9:57:00 PM] Toni McNulty says: Jeannie - postal codes http://www.pakpost.gov.pk/postcode/postcode.html

Here is the latest Tweet syntax ala Tweak the Tweet: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~starbird/pkfloods_instructions.html

News from the Pakreport Crowdflower channel: http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=50302

PakReport Crowdflower To get the improved version Go to http://github.com/toolness/pakreport-jetpack This was created by Atul Varma Add-on - add chat channel on a side-bar to make the experience instantly social

Kiran, Neha translate Urdu BBC:

1. Bridges and Roads are flooded at لوئردیر (luyedir?) http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/multimedia/2010/09/100902_flood_dir_bridges.shtml Most of the damage due to floods at لوئردیر is to roads and bridges. Khazana Bypass bridge..the pillars are damaged. The bridge at Balampad is half submerged in water. People are walking a long distance after the bridge has broken. People are complaining that the bridge is not being re-built, and it is extremely tough to cross using vehicles. In Kalangai area, there is another bridge called 'Japan Bridge', which is broken. There are long lines of vehicles trying to cross over the few bridges not affected. Jagtara's Markesi bridge is like the backbone of the region. There has been a lot of traffic on this bridge for the last two weeks. People are complaining that the main bridges need to be in good condition, as they are the lifelines. People have to wait for hours to cross the bridges due to the rush. The lines on both sides of the bridges can be upto 3-4 km; the vehicles are let out from each side at intervals of 15-20mins.

2. People affected and looking for relief from flood's devastation http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2010/08/100824_pak_floods_as.shtml Khairpur Nathan Shah zyrab in Sindh is very much affected by the floods. Juhi Dadu district has received a warning to vacate. Kot and Dadu in Sindh districts are affected. Rawalpindi division of Punjab, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas, Sindh - more rain is expected.

CrisisCampSiliconValley Pakistan August 27

Thanks for coming/joining virtually! Here is information for getting started tonight:

Task list for tonight:

http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Pakistan/2010_Floods/Tasks We found some of the quick starts listed in the Task list confusing, so here is a simpler one for OSM.

Quick Start for OSM:


Quick Start for Pakreport.org

The tech lead for Pakreport.org (george - notgeorge on skype - george@stayready.net) is here right now with projects for geeks and non-geeks. We're tracking the projects that we're working on on our developer wiki - [1]

Geeks

  • You'll want to have a version of Ushahidi running - see [2] or installing it.
  • Take a look at our list of bugs and features on the dev wiki

Non-Geeks

  • Help us categorize and geolocate reports. Click here [3]


Communication:

My blog, which will be less exciting: http://cmusv-dmi.blogspot.com/

About:

Rock your Friday night by coming to the bar camp/working group to blog and code to aid disaster response and recovery for the 15 million people displaced in the recent Pakistani floods.

When: Friday August 27, 5pm-10pm

Where: # Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley Campus, NASA Research Park, Bldg. 23 (MS 23-11), Moffett Field, CA 94035-0001

Register: http://ccsv-pkfloods.eventbrite.com/

About: We will be addressing needs requested by on-the-ground partners in Pakistan, collated by CrisisCamp London and updated here: http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Pkfloods_situation_report_18-08-2010.

Specifically, we will focus on:

1) “Tasks for everyone, anytime” (see below).

This requires non-techies with laptops, to do: Pashtun translation, data entry, blogging, text editing, classifying messages, user-interface testing, collating web-based news updates, etc.

2) Technical Tiger Teams

We will create technical tiger teams to provide Silicon Valley-located expertise to CrisisCommons projects managed by camps around the world. These project involving mapping, databases, crowd-sourcing, coding, user-centered design, etc.

This requires: techies with laptops: Range of coding skills (python), geo-, and user interface skills are required. Check out the specific task lists to find a project where your expertise applies (http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Pkfloods_situation_report_18-08-2010).


Details 

   * NOTE: We are located on the NASA Research Park. A valid government-issued picture ID (e.g., driver’s license or passport) is required to get onto the NASA Research Park.
   * Directions:
         o http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/about-us/directions.html
         o Tip: The address doesn't plot correctly on Google maps. So after reaching the main gate, to get to Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley (Building 23), continue straight
         o on Clark Road make a hard right onto Westcoat road, then a left into the first parking lot you see. That is the parking lot for Carnegie Mellon.
         o If you have questions, ask the guards at the Main gate.
   * If you will be hungry/thirsty, bring something to share.
   * Bring your laptop and power strip
   * This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required for planning purposes.
   * For event questions and sponsorship, please contact Jeannie Stamberger at jeannie.stamberger@sv.cmu.edu.

Welcome to CrisisCamp Silicon Valley

What is a Crisis Camp? Watch a brief video on the London Crisis Camp

Communication

, * @cmusv_dmi

Upcoming Events

  • September 24, 2010, Exercise 24, Disaster scenario (earthquake in San Diego with broken off shore oil wells) with global virtual participation. University of San Diego. Exercise 24 Home Exercise 24 Facebook

Past Silicon Valley Camps

  • July 23, 2010, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley | NASA Research Park, Bldg. 23 (MS 23-11), Moffett Field, CA. Prepping future projects.
  • Jan. 16, 2010, CrisisCampHaitiSiliconValley, at SuperHappyDevHouse (SHDH) #36, Microsoft SV, Mtn Vw.

Notes/Links

  • Original sign up: [4]

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