Crisis Camp activities in Los Angeles

[Alex Rose]

Hello everyone,

I'm curious if people from the Los Angeles group are interested in
more Crisis Camp related activities?

I have tried to stay peripherally involved with the activities in the
other cities- and a few weeks back there was a Founders Weekend in DC
to more formally define the organizational structure and Mission
Statement. Personally, I have found it challenging to find the
bandwidth to stay participatory across the geography, time zones, etc.
but I assume there are active projects which some of you may be
involved with to this day.

My main interest remains the preparation and planning for incidents in
Los Angeles and mobilizing our local resources to quickly plug-in to
help other affected areas. My sense is that Crisis Commons has some
more growing pains to sort out before we can efficiently host a camp
with new volunteers and work on projects with other teams in other
cities - but that doesn't mean our efforts here should remain silent.
To the contrary, we should take this time now to discuss projects to
address the needs that may arise following a catastrophic disaster in
our backyard. Then we can recruit other Crisis Camps to help us build
the very tools that all of us wish the people and Government of Haiti
were trained and familiar with before January 12.

Let me know if you have any particular interests for another gathering
and what you think we should work on.

Best,
Alex
alexr...@gmail.com

PS- If you want a reminder of what a 7.8 earthquake may do to LA watch
this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYrFXgx0xi8

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Chad Catacchio <chadca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to let you all know that I have been extremely honored to work with
> all of you during our 3 CrisisCamps for Haiti - it's been wonderful.
> I think that at this time, however, it is a good idea for me to face
> geographic reality (I live in Santa Barbara) and turn over the organizer
> role to someone else or a group of people. I am organizing a CC in Santa
> Barbara on Feb 20 (you're all invited of course! here's the link
> http://crisiscampsb1.eventbrite.com/ ) and I think moving forward I am going
> to focus on CrisisCamp in SB. Especially in a time of crisis, it makes more
> sense for me to help organize locally and let you all organize in LA. I of
> course plan to stay a member of the LA chapter and can come to Camps in
> between crisis events.
> If anyone would like to step up to be an organizer, please just let us all
> know and I'll be happy to assist in any way I can. Thank you again for all
> of your hard work and for really making LA one of the core Crisis Camp
> cities!
> Best,
> Chad
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[Evonne Heyning]

I am considering CERT training with the city of LA and they are
currently accepting applicants. We have been growing more food in our
community and focused on permaculture & gardening as DIY
solutionsharing is needed. We are also testing a new power/energy
solution that may be rapidly sharable for the next big crisis. Those
of you into gaming may also want to try out Urgent Evoke to network
with others worldwide, we have found many new change agents thru
gameplay thus month.

Evonne @amoration
Via iPhone
Toyshoppe Syst

[Andrew Lih]

What a prefect time to send this mail... did everyone feel the 6.9 in Baja?

I was sitting in a chair and suddenly felt like I was on the high seas
it was so wavy and rolling.

A good time to kick up the discussion!

--
-Andrew Lih
USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
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[Lori Barfield]

alex, i'm up for staying involved.

evonne, i did the CERT training a few months ago, found it valuable.

...lori

[Janette Shew]

Alex, I'm also up for staying involved, though I don't have much time to dedicate to this.

- Janette Shew

[Pete Vander Giessen]

Hi Alex,

I'm interested in staying involved, as well, when time permits.

Thank you,

~PeteVG

" ... the original aphorism being 'In comparison with the ancients, we
stand like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants.' The image was a
commonplace by the time Newton used it, his one contribution being to
erase any sense that he himself might be a dwarf."

~ Lewis Hyde

[Michelle Robbins]

Hi Alex - I'm interested in staying involved, though work and family obligations allowed me to only dedicate one day to volunteering with cchaitila thus far.  I expect to be more available going forward, and am happy to assist as my schedule allows. 

- Michelle Robbins

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Alex Rose <alexr...@gmail.com> wrote:

--
- Michelle

[Everett Batey]

Alex, et al,

I'm still interested in the Crisis evolution. especially in long term
preparedness locally (Ventura, LA counties) and globally.

Ev Batey / Skype: wa6cre-10 / efb...@gmail.com
or efb...@cotdazr.org or wa6...@rabbitradio.org
(805) 616-2471 / Twitter.: efbatey / CCHaitiLA: http://bit.ly/6jWfkQ

>> - Michelle
>

[Lori Barfield]

hoping this is not off-topic, i just got an email notice for the
latest CERT newsletter, so i thought i'd share.

https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/newsletter.shtm

...lori

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Evonne Heyning <evo...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Bronwyn Lewis]

I'll add another endorsement for CERT. I'm actually finishing my Red
Cross/CERT Level 2 training this weekend.

As for future CrisisCamps and Los Angeles, as time permits, I'm
definitely interested -- though possibly also moving out of state as
soon as August for school.

-bronwyn