Active projects

[Heather Leson]

Hi Folks, At the Crisis Commons Founders Weekend we set out a plan to build out a refined project framework. We will be working on this (see Kate's emails).

We need some help. We need a current (as of today going forward) list of all the truly active projects. Can you please advise if you and /or your city is working on something?  We have an idea of what is in the works, but we'd love your input

If you want to send me an email off list that would be great. I also added a temporary link under Project Framework.
http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Project_Management_Framework

It would be great to have this detail within the week please.
Thanks so much,

heather
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[christopher taylor]

Heather,

are you all still interested in the machine translation system?

i have the website up and running - sent some emails around with
little response.

http://crisisterp.dyndns.org

chris

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[Heather Leson]

Hi all,

Chris: I am interested in the Machine Translation Project. But, I don't have any time to personally test it. Toronto's next Crisis Commons meeting is tbd (We are hoping for April 17). I think the thing I would recommend is to talk with Hunter Whitney (usability) and build out some test cases. Make it easy for volunteers to test. We really are in a state where volunteers will need to be re-engaged or located. The sustainability of this is key. We talked extensively about it at Crisis Commons Founders Weekend. Each of us is tasked with trying to help build processes to help to this end.

Joan: Maybe you could hook up with Chris and talk about collaboration. Sara Farmer (UK) is your contact for wiki gardening. Heather Blanchard has been away. I am sure that she will be able to help you soon with questions prior to your camp. I will try to help too.  Anna Curran (NYC) and myself are big fans of project shopping. This means: doing tons of advance research prior to a camp to ensure that your volunteers are truly engaged. My recommendation on project selection is that you choose the ones that have strong requirements and a project lead that returns your emails. I would recommend having your Internet savvy, tech and non-technical people review Crabgrass. This will help Crisis Commons tremendously. Our goal is to test this tool as a collaboration suite. Website work is being lead by Chad Catacchio and AJ Turner.  You are welcome to send me an email off list with more questions.

I think there are two key things to be done with projects right now:
1. Get a complete list of truly active projects and actions required on those projects
2. Build the Project Management Framework. (see Kate's email on this topic and join us to build this)


Heather

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[christopher taylor]

Heather, Joan, and company,

Thanks again for the assistance. I'll see about getting with my DC
contacts when they are available to continue to improve things. I
would like to know which languages you all would be interested in
supporting with automatic translation?

African languages? South East Asian Languages?

Chris
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