Crisis-Interop Workshop Next Steps

[Chamindra de Silva]

Thank you again for all that participated and helped organize the
crisis interop workshop on missing person data at ISCRAM 2011.
Everything ran quite smoothly on the day thanks to the help of the
organizing team that included Ka-Ping Yee, Tim Schwartz, Beate
Stollberg, Julie Dugdale, Greg Miernicki, Gleen, Dominic König, Mark
Prutsalis and Glenn Pearson.

For those who could not attend I attach the crisis interop overview
presentation for your reference:

http://www.slideshare.net/chamindra/crisis-interop-workshop

And all other documents can be found at the website at:

http://www.humanitarian-ict.org/wiki/crisis-interop

After running a few tests to examine how good the PFIF implementations
actually was against the scenarios, I think there was vehement
consensus that we need to do type of testing to prepare our systems
for interop. It was a validation of the importance of the crisis
interop workshop events. There was also some good feedback on the PFIF
standard as part of it. As expected we were not able to finish testing
all the scenarios, however we have planned a series of such sessions
to complete them.

To complete the tests we will be organizing more sessions, but
meanwhile the endpoints are still available and you can performing the
testing against those scenarios and update the the Google report
accordingly.

The next interop/session will entirely be a virtual session and Tim
will be sending an invite to help coordinate a suitable day/time.

Best Regards,

Chamindra de Silva
http://chamindra-de-silva.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/ChamindraS

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Chamindra de Silva
<cham...@sahanafoundation.org> wrote:
> Just a quick reminder that we will be having the missing person data
> exchange interop workshop tomorrow (Tuesday 10th) at the following
> times:
>
>    - 15:45 UTC
>    - 04:45pm Lisbon
>    - 11:45am EST
>    - 08:45am PST
>    - 09:15pm IST
>
> You are most welcome to attend as virtual observers. We will be using
> Webex for the presentations (please try to use the webex based VOIP)
> and all other virtual collaboration and event details are provided at
> http://www.humanitarian-ict.org/wiki/crisis-interop
>
> Agenda:
> - Introduction to Interop Workshop - Chamindra de Silva (Sahana
> Foundation) - 5 mins
> - The Importance of missing person data exchange - Tim Schwartz
> (Crisis Commons) - 5 mins
> - Brief Introduction to PFIF and interop test session - Ka-Ping Yee
> (Google Crisis Response) - 10 mins
> - Brief intro to participating systems - 10 mins
>      - National Library of Medicine People Locator - Greg Miernicki
> (National Library of Medicine)
>      - Sahana Eden - Dominic König (Sahana Eden/AidIQ)
>      - Google Person Finder - Ka-Ping Yee (Google Crisis Response)
>      - ICRC Family Links (data only)
> - Interop testing for PFIF test case with scenario 1 starts - Ka-Ping Yee
>
>
> Chamindra de Silva
> http://chamindra-de-silva.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/ChamindraS
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Chamindra de Silva
> <cham...@sahanafoundation.org> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We have created the home page giving all the details for participating
>> at the crisis-interop workshop event either physically at ISCRAM,
>> Portugal or virtually at the following location URL. At this event we
>> will be testing missing person data exchange using the Open Standard,
>> PFIF:
>>
>> http://www.humanitarian-ict.org/wiki/crisis-interop
>>
>> For systems that would like to participate but have not been involved
>> with preparations, it is not too late to join us. You are most welcome
>> to participate and all you need to do pre-event is host a public test
>> end point for the interop testing.
>>
>> Please do forward this to anyone who might be interested in
>> participating who is not on these lists.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chamindra de Silva
>> http://chamindra-de-silva.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/ChamindraS
>>
>