Blog Reference: A crisis grassroots efforts consortium

[Chamindra de Silva]

Hi All,

Thought I would post a recent reference to a blog article from Gisli Oladsson here:

http://blog.disasterexpert.org/2010/10/crisis-grassroots-efforts-consortium.html

As a result Gisli joined this mailgroup and let's continue to further the suggestion proposed in the blog. 

Now that things may have cooled down a bit with our response teams after Pakistan and other events, I think it is a good time to setup the next group skype call. Mark will you organize as usual?

Here my tentative items for discussion:

- H-FOSS code of conduct revisions

- An approach for a NetHope style consortium (ref blog)

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

[Mark Prutsalis]

We've had a lot of people sign up for this list in the last week as we've been promoting it through our networks (including the old humanitarian-ict list on yahoo groups).  Work is now spreading through the Crisis Commons network so we might have quite a few more members by the next time we get together online for a skype call.

I'm working on a next draft of the proposed code of conduct based on some feedback received and will post it in the next day or so.  It would be great if everyone could review, comment and be prepared to discuss for the next call.

I would add to the agenda some discussion of the H-FOSS maturity model; please review https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiR82JeFPTCOdGhmU05HM2trb3dac0dJMVdwRXRacWc&hl=en.  This is an integral part IMO of any proposal to form a consortium to support humanitarian relief organizations.

So how about next Thursday, October 21 at 1300 EDT/1700 UTC?

I need someone to invite me back into the saved humanitarian-foss skype group.  I lost it when I migrated to a new computer.  If you see me as a member of the chat, just typing "hello Mark" should be enough to make it come up in my skype window again.  Otherwise, I'll re-form it based on my failing memory (and my old computer, which, of course, still has the history logged).

If you have not been a participant in one of these voice chats before, please send me (not the list) your skype id and I will add you to the group (once I rejoin it of course ;D )

Best regards,
Mark

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