Haitian Voices

From CrisisCommons Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search
Haitian Voices
Icon for Haitian Voices

Contents

Overview

Overview: The Haitian community has requested that CrisisCommons create a capacity for survivors to tell their story of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. They would like to post information for survivor stories, saying thank you to the world. A construct where there would be a "wall" feature where people can go and post survivor stories. They would want to filter so that the open space is not abused. There has been an outpouring of all the communities in the world. They have been hearing so many stories. The community believes its important to capture these stories now as it is" a defining moment in our history." This would be called "Haitian Voices."

Site location: http://www.haitianvoices.org/

Developer chat: #haitianstories on irc.freenode.net

Status

This project was started in the week prior to the 1/23 camps. We have the domain name registered and a rough framework working now. Priorities for 1/23 will be:

  • feature addition - see GitHub project issues
  • adding automated test coverage
  • re-skinning
  • possible integration with Open Solace Haiti Project
  • possible mobile team involvement, though this would likely happen after an API is available

Coordinator

Coordinators:

, chris@intridea.com

, joe@intridea.com

City-specific coordinators:

  • Washington DC - Chris Selmer, Joe Grossberg
  • if your city is interested in helping on this project, please enter coordinator info here

Goals Purpose

  • Survivors can share their stories with the world.
  • Supports long term recovery by maintaining interest, supporting fundraising and linking to recovery organizations.
  • Be the archive of this crisis and recovery process.

See : Haitian Voices: Goals and Requirements

Website Production

See : Draft Site Map

See : Final Site Map

See : Al Leandre's Design Feedback for HaitianVoices.org

Issues

Because of the literacy rate in Haiti, I'm wondering if we wanted to push a multimedia component, which would be like oral histories. Perhaps setup a Google Voice number, and people could narrate their stories in audio form, and have volunteers help translate them.

For a list of issues, see here: http://github.com/cselmer/HaitianVoices/issues

IRC

We'll be using IRC to help coordinate between different camps and remote devs.

Social Media

Socia Media Links:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/haitianstories/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/46856467@N03/

http://www.youtube.com/user/HaitianVoices

http://twitter.com/HaitianVoices

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Haitian-Voices/425675890231?ref=ts

Nick Troiano and Project Manager have passwords.

Source Code

When accepting an issue to work on, please add your twitter id to the front of the ticket so we do not duplicate efforts.

http://github.com/cselmer/HaitianVoices

Interested Contributors

We have need for Ruby developers, as well as design / front-end. If you're interested, please enter your info below

NOTE: if there are additional project that require Rails developers, we may spin off a team to help.

Name Organization Location Available Twitter Skill set Email
T K Ohearn Prosemuse Indianapolis/Fort Wayne, Indiana Now and later Editing Haitian voices/intellectual property specialist tkohearn@facebook.com
Vaibhav Bhawsar San Francisco (remote) 1/23 @voybhav interaction/graphic design,dataviz,html,css vaibhav -at- recombine -dot- net
Kerrie Radtke Washington DC 1/23 assisting with project management for website production kerrie_radtke@yahoo.com
Adam Bair Intridea Maine (remote) 1/23 @adambair Ruby/Rails
Alex Hornstein boston 1/23 @enjrolas Twilio/Google voice/dumb-phone integration
Renae Bair Maine (remote) 1/23 @renaebair Ruby/Rails
Jeremy Flores Pittsbugh (remote) 1/23 @j_n_f Ruby/Rails, UI engineering, Prototype/Scripty/jQuery, Postgres/MySQL
Andrew Lih Los Angeles 1/23 @fuzheado Drupal, wikis, multimedia production/editing, podcasting
Jonathan Nelson Intridea Atlanta (remote) 1/23 @jonathannelson graphics, Rails, SEO
Lara Weithorn Los Angeles 1/23 @Laraisme documentary/multimedia producer/shooter
Paul Barry Baltimore/DC 1/23 @pjb3 Ruby/Rails, iPhone/Obj-C mail@paulbarry.com
Gleb Tulukin Bethesda/DC 1/23 @glebtulukin Ruby/Rails, iPhone, J2EE
Michael Bleigh Intridea Michigan (remote) 1/23 @mbleigh Ruby/Rails, Javascript, Illustrator, Photoshop
Steven Haddox Baltimore/DC 1/23 @stevenhaddox Ruby/Rails, Javascript (jQuery/Prototype/native), XHTML/CSS
Dave Lester Washington, DC 1/23 and beyond @digitalhumanist PHP / Phonegap / Javascript
Joe Grossberg Washington, DC 1/23 @grossberg Rails, JS, HTML, CSS joe@intridea.com
Gwynne Kostin Washington, DC 1/23 @gwynnek web strategy, program development
Nick Troiano Washington, DC 1/23 @nicktroiano Social Media, Outreach troiano.nick@gmail.com
Robert Phelps Washington, DC 1/23 Ruby/Rails, Javascript bobbert0476@gmail.com
Carline Cazeau Altimax Solutions, LLC Columbia, MD Concept, Long Term Site Maintenance, Haitian Perspective ccazeau@altimaxsolutions.com
Alland Leandre Vyalex Inc Columbia, MD Concept, Long Term Site Maintenance, Haitian Perspective aleandre@vyalex.com

January 30, 2010 - City report (Toronto)

  • These are not tools created native to the Haitian communities in Canada. Our team spent much time trying to determine outreach for the projects and how to have people use them.
  • For these projects to be embraced by the Haitian communities in our CrisisCamp (Haiti) cities, we need to consider connecting directly with the aid organizations and trying to see if a. they fit and would used and b. what would they like CrisisCamp (Haiti) to do for them in the technology/social media space.
  • The Toronto Haitian Action Committee (BC Holmes) spoke with all the teams about the potential collaboration we could offer.
  • Our Team ventured to work with each of the Haitian voices, Haitian stories and Open solace projects.
  • Kreyol speaking UofT students published their story

(February 6, 2010: Heather Leson (city coordinator) was on a Tweeting Haiti panel with haihaito.com. We talked about how to connect with the Haitian Diaspora and the community in Haiti. Daphnee (volunteer for haihaito and Haitian Diaspora offered to introduce me to other folks within the Haitian community. We will continue to find ways to have our community connect and help this project.)

Project summary

Project Twitter hashtag: #cchv

The Haitian community has requested that CrisisCommons create a capacity for survivors to tell their story of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. They would like to post information for survivor stories, saying thank you to the world. A construct where there would be a "wall" feature where people can go and post survivor stories. They would want to filter so that the open space is not abused. There has been an outpouring of all the communities in the world. They have been hearing so many stories. The community believes its important to capture these stories now as it is" a defining moment in our history." This would be called "Haitian voices."

  • Project Lead: Chris Selmer (tech lead) @cselmer, chris (at) intridea.com
  • Customer: Al Leandre / Carline Cazeau
  • Location of Lead: DC
  • Cities Interested:
  • Assigned Project Manager(s) Across all Cities:
  • Interested participants:
Retrieved from "http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Haitian_Voices"
Personal tools