Re: [CrisisCommons] Re: Use of satellite data to look for people needing rescue?

[Mark Prutsalis]

For the record - all the comments made by Pat and Paola on the use of skype for development and design discussions are right on.  Skype chats can be good for very tactical operations but are not suited to lengthier discussions on technical matters.  And I personally find them tedious in the middle of response operations; I end up spending hours reviewing what happened while I was last online, and usually get very little value from that time spent as there is no organization or threading to the discussion; it becomes hard to filter and forces one to read through everything. 

On 3/16/2011 3:57 PM, Pat Tressel wrote:

We can move to another list, or take this private (i.e. just CC the folks who have responded so far, and others can contact me to be CC'd), or just drop it -- people who are interested can come find the project over in Sahana Eden if they want.  I hesitate to do that because there has (it seems to me) been a lot of useful communication here, and some expression of interest.  Let me at least reply to Om, and then we can look at moving elsewhere to continue.

-1 to moving a private discussion.  This has been an interesting discourse, and I've appreciated the time taken to sort through all the details.  You can not assume that only those who have participated are interested.

The legacy humanitarian-ict list on yahoo groups used to be the appropriate forum for discussions such as this, but it has fallen into almost total disuse for some years now.

We started a new humanitarian-foss list (copied here - you are all welcome to join) on google groups about a year ago as a place to restart a number of these technical discussions with active developers.  I think that would be the appropriate place to move the discussion if Crisis Commons doesn't want this on their list.  (Having the discussion searchable via google is also a huge reason to having it on a google group over a skype chat.)

The associated humanitarian-ict wiki (http://humanitarian-ict.org) would be a nice place for folks to document the conclusions reached.

If there is more to say on this meta-discussion of appropriate channels, could we move this elsewhere too?

;D

Best regards,
Mark

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