London/meetings/28-August-2010
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Thank you for volunteering to help with the CrisisCamps response to the Pakistan floods crisis. This is the second London CrisisCamp since the #pkfloods response started, and its focus is on coordinating the technology response to #pkfloods.
There are no other CrisisCamps running today but there are lots of people working virtually around the world. CrisisCampSV finished a five-hour shift a few hours ago.
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Schedule
- 08:30 Tutti's Cafe Plotting and caffeine
- 09:30 Start setting up
- 10:00 Registration and welcome
- 10:00:01 Newbies: Intro
- 10:00:01 Old hands: what's happened since last time - projects for today
- 10:30 Projects start
- 11:30 Project checkin
- 12:55 Project checkin
- 13:00 Lunch
- 14:55 Project checkin
- 16:00 Start tidying up projects
- 16:30 Project checkin
- 17:00 Go to pub (The Duke (of York), Roger Street, WC1N 2PB OpenStreetMap)
Post-camp: 6pm PK_floods_Conference_Call_28-08-10 on Telephone Bridge with CrisisCommons.
What's happened since last camp
Tasks for today
See Pakistan/2010 Floods/Tasks for tasks needed to support people affected by #pkfloods.
- OpenStreetMap - find that village! Bisha
- Ushahidi data entry (+ OpenStreetMap/Sahana where needed) - Jo, Amy, Ashleigh
- Pakistan end of #pkfloods pages (i.e. where to find help and our questions about how this happens) - Ally, Anne
- Pkfloods wiki tidy - Sara
- VirtualCamp desk - Spike
Sara's Tasks:
- Check how much of Haiti action can be transferred directly to pkfloods. (Sara Farmer)
- Contact CDAC re radio broadcasts (Sara Farmer)
- Contact IEEE to tell their members that they can do more than just hand over money (Sara Farmer)
- Contact BarCamp event insurer contact re UK camps (Sara Farmer)
12:00am Check-in
- OpenStreetMap: Bisha/Spike. Logged in, going through tutorial.
- Ushahidi: Jo, Amy, Ashleigh. Logged in and getting on with it.
- Pakistan end of SWEDOW checks: Ally, Anne. Putting together a list of questions to ask about this.
- VirtualCrisisCamp/ Facilitation: Spike, Sara. Getting on with it.
1pm Check-in
- OpenStreetMap - Bisha. Starting to map missing things.
- Ushahidi - Jo, Amy, Ashleigh. Difficult to find anything but district names. If can't find villages then are listing it as district, with coordinates set to coords of district headquarters. Putting notes about this onto Tool/Ushahidi wikipage.
- Swedow checks - Anne, Ally. Two A4 pages of questions done. Braindumping questions then checking that answers/ info exist, and communicating CrisisCamp work on the ground. Next work: externally facing volunteer recruitment page.
Publicity - for London camp. Need to think about numbers, e.g. put a waiting list onto EventBrite.
3pm Check-in
- OpenStreetMap - Bisha. Mapping. Looking at flood area maps/ overlays. Need to ask Harry (OSM) about OSM overlays.
- London site rebuild. Ally & Anne. Need to have a user-friendly place for people to come to. Figuring out content needed to recruit and support volunteers and quantify how they can contribute.
- Facilitation: Sara & Spike. Lurking.
4:30pm Check-in
Note that this was a holiday weekend in the UK.
- OpenStreetMap - did mapping. Will carry on mapping.
- Webpages - two things in draft (welcome page and monitoring&evaluation questions), and a skeleton for the site drafted out too. Have also done OV1 diagram of the system, in narrative form (turns out that everything hangs around Ushahidi).
- Facilitation. Still doing. Is very quiet out there. Kate Starbird has launched TweakTheTweet into GoogleMaps (via project Epic).
End of day Chat
Pluses
- More new people came!
- People are very friendly
- Nice that it's about getting it done rather than ego-tripping.
- Food was good (thanks Angela!)
- Lovely quiet venue: very calm.
- Useful having the "better to register than not turn" message this week. This came out of last week's plusses and deltas.
- Sign up nagging via Twitter/ email was good.
Deltas
- Working on improving external comms and wikipage
- Need to make it easier for people from outside to engage with the group, i.e. need to explain our work to new people and 'lay' people.
- Maybe need to lose half the slides from the introductory powerpoint presentation - but is good to give context. Lose 1/3 of the slides instead.
- Might have issues with getting people into the room - but it's not really a hassle.
- Need to publicise camp more widely, e.g. by sending to everyone who's been to an earlier camp. Need a charm campaign, and a good 'product' page to point people at.
- Too much traffic on London list - need to set up a London announce list. Spike/Sara to set up a global attendee list and invite them to the announce list. CrisisCampUK-announce: watch this space!
