Round the World Camp 3-4 Sept 2010/CampLog

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Times are in Central Time (sorry, too lazy to do math here with all this)

Contents

FRIDAY (CHICAGO - CENTRAL TIME)

Start: Camp setup and launch

  • 09/03 17:00 TORONTO STARTS (18:00pm local fri) camp doors open
  • 09/03 17:00 SYDNEY STARTS (08:00am local sat) camp doors open
  • 09/03 17:50 Freenode channels identified and setup and brought online - #crisiscamp
  • 09/03 17:50 - Wiki updates happening for communications, including research twitter, ustream
  • 09/03 17:58 *Folks start to show up to freenode, HeatherB, gavin from NZ
  • 09/03 18:15 Freenode: settled on #crisiscamp-nv, #crisiscamp-sahana, #crisiscamp-osm, #crisiscamp-crowdflower
  • 09/03 18:19 - TORONTO camp online (freenode)
  • 09/03 18:20 - Toronto and Sydney connect via Skype. The camp is late starting due to weather. More soon.
  • 09/03 18:44 - TORONTO ustream channel online
  • 09/03 18:46 - SILICON VALLEY online freenode, pre-camp work
  • 09/03 18:59 - SILICON VALLEY on ustream
  • 09/03 19:00 - ALL CITY CONFERENCE CALL STARTS (notes here: http://piratepad.net/pjfk3S688s). Toronto, SV, Some remote volunteers (heatherb, deborah, alex, veena, catherine)
  • 09/03 19:00 - SILICON VALLEY STARTS (17:00pm local fri) camp doors open
  • 09/03 19:30 - SILICON VALLEY and TORONTO drop off all city call.
  • 09/03 19:40 - TORONTO rejoins call
  • 09/03 20:00 - BANGKOK STARTS (08:00am sat local) camp doors open
  • 09/03 20:18 - ALL CITY CONFERENCE CALL ENDS

NEXT

  • 09/03 21:45 - TORONTO reports BANGKOK can't get uStream, Freenode, or Skype to work
  • 09/03 21:56 - BANGKOK online freenode!!
  • 09/03 22:24 SILICON VALLEY - http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/CrisisCampSV, begin posting status.
  • 09/03 22:25 UPDATE_GENERAL: Deborah engaged helping with BANGKOK
  • 09/03 22:28 UPDATE_GENERAL: HeatherTo helping with SYDNEY
  • 09/03 22:34 SILICON VALLEY UPDATE_SV: 2 people are working on translation tool, 2 on pakreport.org, 1 OSM, 1 blogging (Richard) 1 person writing an add on for crowdflower to increase useability, me blogging
  • 09/03 22:34 SILICON VALLEY UPDATE_SV: 8 people here and 1 on there way
  • 09/03 22:35 BANGKOK - http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/CrisisCampBangkok/meetings/04-Sept-2010 tracking page online
  • 09/03 22:53 SYDNEY (via HeatherTO) - Most people are working on mapping in OSM. Shoaib is bringing people up to speed on how to map in OSM. Tolmie is putting together a how to video with Shaoib. Its taking a little time.
  • 09/03 23:04 TORONTO: - Reported will be offline at 11:30CT. SYDNEY Vicki/vertis will be online connectors till London. Tolmie will post blog.
  • 09/03 23:28 SILICON VALLEY - UPDATE_SV: we are still working on pakreports crowdflower. We now have Neha here who speaks a bit of Urdu - she and Kiran, translating BBC Urdu channels. SV member Atul created a Firefox plugin for Crowdflower.
  • 09/03 23:29 SILICON VALLEY <Jeannie>Deborah - we have a way to translate Urdu BBC to english
  • 09/03 23:30 SYDNEY - status page posted - http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/CrisisCamp_Sydney_%28Pakistan%29-_September_4_-_5,_2010
  • 09/03 [23:31] SYDNEY <shoaib>UPDATE_SYD: 5 working on crowdflower, one working on translations, 3 working on digitizing osm data, 2 geocoding villages, 1 hacking osm API to report on data we have added
  • 09/03 [23:32] SYDNEY <shoaib>UPDATE_SYD: (shoaib) OSM: 1 working to create a layer of data for districts affected by floods that can be added as work packages
  • 09/03 [23:33] TORONTO General Camp Status: OSM Training, Crowdflower PakReport, Intercamp support including Sydney
  • 09/03 [23:33] TORONTO ENDS (00:33am sat local) - TOHeather has left the building..Toronto camp log: http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Toronto_-CrisisCamp_Pakistan_-September_3,_2010
  • 09/03 [23:31] SYDNEY <shoaib>UPDATE_SYD: 5 working on crowdflower, one working on translations, 3 working on digitizing osm data, 2 geocoding villages, 1 hacking osm API to report on data we have added

SATURDAY (CHICAGO - CT TIME)

  • 09/04 00:00 ALEX online from LA
  • 09/04 00:04 SILICON VALLEY wants to keep going, past camp scheduled end :)
  • 09/04 00:11 BANGKOK - Reports status: Gordon and Suwanee on Geocoding for pkfloods, Don, with help from Michael, is working on Sahana - Union Councils locations & School Shelters.
  • 09/04 00:11 BANGKOK - Natasha is working on helping to promote Tweak the Tweet for the Pakistan Floods
  • 09/04 00:15 DEBORAH getting sleepy, very sleepy
  • 09/04 00:18 SILICON VALLEY ENDS'''' -(10:18pm fri local time) camp completes. Camp Report: http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/CrisisCampSV. Primarily worked on Crowdflower, and Urdu translation tasks
  • 09/04 00:44 BANGKOK - Deborah creates linkedin group, Michael created facebook page "Crisis Camp Bangkok"
  • 09/04 00:45 LONDON - First sighting, Spike seen online freenode for 1 minute, then vanishes
  • 09/04 01:00 BANGKOK and SYDNEY report that they are continuing to work on tasks as previously reported


  • 09/04 02:00 SYDNEY END (17:00pm Local time) - camp competed - camp status page still needs updates: http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/CrisisCamp_Sydney_%28Pakistan%29-_September_4_-_5,_2010
  • 09/04 02:01 BANGKOK - <michaelhowden> Just had a visit from a representative from the Pakistani Embassy!, Mr Ahmed Amjad Ali
  • 09:04 02:30 LONDON SOFT START (08:30am) They are conveying Tutti's Cafe Plotting and caffeine
  • 09/04 03:36 BANGKOKItalic text - Sander reports one of our designers at CoffeeWORKS tailored the Crisis Commons logo with a Bangkok / Thai flavor.
  • 09/04 04:40 GENERAL Reported <harry-wood>lots of OpenStreetMap tracing now to do : http://hot.openstreetmap.org/
  • 09/04 4:45 BANGKOK - some updates/outputs today: (Facebook group set up to promote Crisis Camp Bangkok (hopefully for a bigger event next time!), Don removed 25+ duplicate locations from Sahana, Suwanee entered 30 Latitude and Longitude coordinates, Andrew and Ar-phanee talked with Michael about intergrating Sahana with the courses at Siam Institute of Technology
  • 09/04 05:00 LONDON START (11:00am sat)
  • 09/04 05:20 BANGKOK (17:20 local time)- Report: <elgrodo>y only 2 of us plus pongvit left
  • 09/04 05:34 BANGKOK - some update: some time spent some time getting google geocoding going against place name spreadsheets, issues with slow network connection here but worked ok from a US machine, then I discovered it was duplicate work :(
  • 09/04 05:38 BANGKOK - http://www.crashbang.co.nz/quake040910/index.html. Also, NZ reporting no deaths, but some significant property damage in areas
  • 09/04 05:45 BANGKOK and remote-OXFORD - Lots of chatter now about sahana-eden tasks, they are working through the sahana wiki
  • 09/04 06:01 LONDON - Connected onto freenode, reports 4 people so far, more expected

NEXT

  • 09/04 06:05 BANGKOK ENDS (18:05pm local time sat)- Last of folks leaving. Report a few may get online as virtual volunteers later. Camp status page: http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/CrisisCampBangkok/meetings/04-Sept-2010
  • 09/04 06:10 GENERAL - Discussion that for some of the tools in sahana, high barrier to entry for the camp-developer in short time frame....think a virtual machine model to remove some barriers in future might be good (deborah documenting here so becomes part of 'lab' idea).
  • 09/04 06:15 LONDON - Looking into the possibility sahana eden tasks, looking into the new HOT.OSM images. Been trying to get the CrowdFlower SMS processing working
  • 09/04 06:30 Virtual.SYDNEY and Virtual.OXFORD - Collaborating on Sahana and mapping extract task. Lots of good chatter
  • 09/04 [07:21] LONDON: (13:21 local) Hi! Six people now - working on validating CrowdFlower via http://pakreport.crowdflower.com
  • 09/04 [07:41] ALL Virtual LONDON, OXFORD, SYDNEY, BANGKOK folks - working-chatting the hard problem of data and mapping interoperability, visibility, manageability between ushahidi/osm/sahana...Love it!!
  • 09/04 08:00 LONDON - Continue working on Pakreport. Deborah(remote) and Spike assessing reliefWeb hosting next steps.
  • 09/04 09:00 ALL CITY CALL - everyone must be tired, LON/TO/moderator on call...notes on piratepad: http://piratepad.net/pjfk3S688s
  • 09/04 09:50 GENERAL - Virtual folks working in sahana eden entusiastically talking GIS tasks, and just discussing alternative data sourcing for place hierarchy


  • 09/04 11:18 LONDON ENDS (17:18pm local) London has logged off for the day. T
  • 09/04 11:18 TORONTO is posting a blog about Bangkok and then also logging off. Deborah is resting and will rejoin as virtual coordinator when Sydney is live in a few hours.
  • 09/04 14:30 VIRTUAL ARGENTINA - 3 Members in argentina are working remotely.
  • 09/04 15:00 GENERAL - Some virtual volunteers online working GIS work areas
  • 09/04 16:42 SYDNEY - getting read to start Day2, folks showing up on irc chat

The Sydney team has added 283 new villages to OpenStreetMap by 15:15 AEST.


  • 09/04 17:30 SYDNEY STARTS DAY2 (09/05 08:30am local time) doors open, sydney camp for day2.

Sydney will be closing camp in about 40 minutes. Please see this link for a more detailed report of the Team http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Sydney/meetings/04-05_Sept-2010#Summary

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