Facebook Meeting notes to CrisisCamp DC - January 13, 2010 from Heather Blanchard

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CrisisCamp Conference Call Notes
Haiti Disaster Relief Assistance
January 13, 2010

Participants
GISCorps
World Bank
State College of Pennsylvania
ASEAN
Google
Sahana
GeoCommons
Fortius One
CrisisCamp
Hands on Disaster
Yahoo!
Emericus
ESRI
National Public Radio
University of Colorado
Mobile Design
EMPOWER
Institute of Emergency Preparedness

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Toro from the World Bank opened with an operational overview.

Who are we? -Provide effort to describe this commons effort and build a central coordination point.
Email list serv managed by Random Hacks of Kindness (haiti-quake2010@rhok.org)
CrisisCommons Wiki up and running (http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake)
CrisisCommons Website being reworked
Looking into group chat opportunities

Geospatial Efforts:
Open Street Map: Editing data for a base map. Making geospatial data available. Conducting Yahoo! map tracing.
Google: Will have new geospatial data in the next 12/24 hours. Providing KML/MapMaker to the UN agencies.
ESRI: Providing assistance, software and imagery via web site
GISCorps: 1,700 technical volunteers who can assist in geospatial projects. 21 volunteers can speak/write French.
GeoCommons: Open Street Map Wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti) is up as well as the Crisis Commons Wiki
(http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake)

Family Reunification:
Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina; People Finder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_PeopleFinder_Project) is a way to assist
International Red Cross the lead on reunification - Family LInks system (http://www.icrc.org/familylinks)
Unification systems (there will be multiple) do not share data, connect or have common data elements
People Finder Interchange Format: http://zesty.ca/pfif/

Google interested in best way to point people (re: search) who are looking for loved ones

Disaster Resource Systems
- Sahana making a public instance of their software available to the public
- USAR teams will be using Sahana
Relief Web has UN OCHA data, look at this resource: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc100?OpenForm
Relief Web Map Center - (http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/AHAA-7ZP2TK?OpenDocument)
Review/revision opportunity of the Hurricane Information Center Ning (http://gustav08.ning.com/). NPR looking for assistance enhance as a resource Recommended for NGOs to have a domain/Haiti
Hands on Disaster Response (http://hodr.org/) deploying and will be conducting assessments
GeoChat: geochat.instedd.org
Language Challenges
-Paul Berger highlighted that language will be a challenge; How can we begin to look at resources to assist?
-GISCorps (http://giscorps.org/) offered that they have 21 GIS volunteers who speak French.
-Louisiana State University has language assistance in French/Creole.
-Motion Point in Florida may also be a partner.

Connecting to Medical Response
-Would be helpful to learn where medical facilities will be for mapping purposes.
-South Alabama has a Medical Disaster Response Network.
-Offer from children's doctor to engage medical NGOs on technology needs

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Evening Meet Up in Virginia
Participants Insteed
Development Seed
National Defense University
Fortius One
GeoCommons
CrisisCamp
Host Emergency CrisisCamps in NY, DC and CA

There is a proposal to create CrisisCamps in cities where there is interest in bringing together technologists, developers, usability experts and communications (non-technical) volunteers to work on relief projects. These will be free and open to anyone who wants to participate.

To attend DC’s CrisisCamp Haiti this Saturday sign up here: http://crisiscamphaitiwdc.eventbrite.com/

NYC and CA eventbrite to be announced today.
Project Proposals for CrisisCamp Haiti

Base layer map for Port Au Prince: This project would create a new collection of imagery and a new base map for NGOs and relief agencies. Post available imagery to share with the public for open source applications.
Family locator systems: Uniting efforts of interested technologists, developers and communications experts to provide technical assistance.
Tech Volunteer Skill Matrix/Volunteers: Create a role of volunteer as well as
Managing News Aggregator: Provide content channel management to coordinate data feeds
Defining the Collective: Create what we are and conceptualize mission space. Coordinate and post historical timeline/archive for the CrisisCamp efforts.

Don't forget - tomorrow's call is at 5PM EST! See below

Participant joining details International direct dial-in number +1 617 614.2702 US Dial-in number 1 866 800.8648 Passcode: 634 457 61