MINUTES OF FEB 6 CONF CALL

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Notes were to be taken by Heather Leson (Toronto). (There was one other note taker from Chicago. (Hope they add more notes))
Attendees: Barry (UK), Hunter (Silicon Valley), Chris Nicholson, Heather Blanchard, Heather Leson and a few others (we should all wiki our attendance next time)


  • All agreed in principle to the written Input into the Vision, Mission, Governance to develop CrisisCommons
  • We discussed how to determine which NGO/NFO to work with. The current list is about 120 approved signatories. What about local, national, or other NFOs? What are the crisis commons requirements for determining the 'legality/validity/need/' of the requestor organization.
  • We agreed that we all need to work on this to be sure that Crisis Commons manages our relationships and serves the greater good.
  • There was much discussion between Barry, Chris Nicholson, Heather Blanchard and all about the role and mandate for CrisisCommons in relation to the World Bank including some geopolitical comments.
  • The terms ICT [1] and VTC [2] were used to try and define the type of NFO CrisisCommons will be.
  • Heather Blanchard is filing papers for the NFO this week. There are some funding considerations and sponsorship opportunities in the works.
  • Team was keen to develop CrisisCommons.org activities for peace time and have additional ongoing projects to build the unique offering that Crisiscommons.org contributes
  • Heather Blanchard advised that there will be CrisisCommons.org virtual organization meetings during the first week of March. CC.org will be at SXSW March 17 and 18 after SXSWi for a CrisisCamp. In addition, Heather mentioned that there will be an annual CrisisCommons.org meeting in Washington the first weekend of June (June 4- 6) More details incoming.
  • team agreed that CrisisCommons.org should and must review projects before they are submitted. This process needs to be refined. What are the requirements from a CrisisCommons perspective, what are the technical requirements, and basic project management elements.
  • there should be a section for "reviewed and approved" projects, but there should also be an opportunity for individuals, cities or other to submit proposals based on their knowledge.
  • We discussed the divergent tools that people are using and talked about what might be best practices. How to organize the organizers while keeping it light and open source. Suggestions: tie sugar crm, trac, drupal, techaid, basecamp, and everything else into one big discussion about tools and how to build Crisiscommons.org.
  • heather leson suggested that we could have a team that work the technology community to drive their volunteer support of the NGOs. For example: charity websites might need extra bandwidth during emergencies. What if Crisis Commons had an Internet emergency risk management team that reviewed NGOs and helped them plan their scale for the traffic and social media needs? What if Crisis Commons leveraged our volunteers and our technology community partners/friends to help the NGOs better?

Team determined the following:

  • We need some separate committees to focus on the next steps to build CrisisCommons.org

ACTION LIST

  1. Heather Blanchard will arrange Legal/IP, Infrastructure and potentially communications teams to separate work on the various mandate components for CrisisCommons.org
  2. research required for NFO organization standards for UK(Barry) and Canada (Heather Leson)
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