More about Crisis Camp - Toronto
Mar...@cleaver.org
From: Dragan Stojanovic <dstoj...@wikidomo.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:38 PM
Subject: RE: Crisis Camp - Toronto
To: "mar...@cleaver.org" <mar...@cleaver.org>
Cc: Jose Leal <jose...@wikidomo.com>, Heather Leson <heathe...@gmail.com>
Hi Martin,
Great chatting with you and thanks a lot for using the wiki mailing lists to ask for help – really appreciated!
As I mentioned, here is a bit more info on CrisisCamp Toronto and upcoming organizing event on Jan 24th. Link for organizing event registration is here: http://crisiscamptoronto-efbnen.eventbrite.com/
If you know anyone who might be interested, here are a few more general posts to give them some background.
5 Social Media Lessons from Haiti: http://mashable.com/2010/01/20/social-media-lessons-haiti/
Tech Community Steps up from Haiti (by Andy @ npr.org): http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2KRHtB/www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2010/01/tech_community_steps_up_for_ha.html
If you know anyone who is interested, please let me know, or send them directly to Heather Leson @heatherleson (copied on this email). Twitter accounts to follow are @CrisisCamp and @CrisisCampTO. More info on overall project is at http://www.crisiscommons.org
I’ve been MIA from wikiTuesdays as I teach Tuesday/Thursday nights, but hope to be back once the semester is through!
Thanks – Cheers!
Dragan.
Toronto has a large, vibrant developer, tech and social media community. We aim to help with Crisis Camp - Toronto
January 24, 2010 is our first event. We will organize ourselves and then prepare to have a bigger development/project day arranged for January 31, 2010.
For Full details on the project: http://www.crisiscommons.org
About Crisis Commons
We are an international volunteer network of professionals drawn together by a call to service. We create technological tools and resources for responders to use in mitigating disasters and crises around the world. Our approach is three-fold:
A Network of Professionals
- Crisis Commons facilitates partnerships and maintains a network of technology volunteers to respond to specific needs. We are developers, specialists, communicators, first responders, project managers, and people who just want to help!
- People work on projects based on their skills and interests. We focus on neutrality, transparency, and collaboration. We believe in the power of one person to make a difference.
From: Jose Leal
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:08 PM
To: mar...@cleaver.org; Nelson Ko (nel...@citadelrock.com)
Cc: ACa...@npr.org; Dragan Stojanovic
Subject: FW: Crisis Camp - Toronto
Hey Guys,
I’m wondering if this is something (see below) that you might be able to assist with. Or you might direct us to someone that can. Any help would be appreciated.
Jose
From: Andy Carvin
[mailto:ACa...@npr.org]
Sent: January-21-10 1:11 PM
To: Dragan Stojanovic
Cc: Jose Leal
Subject: RE: Crisis Camp - Toronto
Hi Jose, hi Dragan, I’m andy carvin and I’m coordinating the CrisisWiki.org project. I’ve been involved in creating wikis in response to disasters since the tsunami five years ago, but this time we’re trying to do something different. We’re creating a wiki can be extensible for any disaster around the world, as well as organizing emergency preparedness resources at the local, state, national or international level. Ideally, we’d allow people to submit resources based on type of resource and geographic reach, and then when a disaster strikes, we can easily deploy templates that are populated with this information, plus whatever else people want to add. Our plan is to use the MediaWiki Semantic Bundle to accomplish this, but we don’t have many people on the project who are well versed in it. By any chance have you used it before to create ontologies? That’s our primary technical need, along with anyone with an eye for info architecture. Beyond that, most of the volunteers will focus on collecting disaster related resources for Haiti and other disaster-prone regions, so we can a baseline of resources in the can, in preparation for whatever happens next.
Thanks,
andy
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Andy Carvin
Senior Strategist
NPR Social Media Desk
acarvin [at] npr
[dot] org
Phone: 202-513-3639
Twitter: @acarvin
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From: Dragan Stojanovic
[mailto:dragan.s...@utoronto.ca]
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:39 AM
To: 'Heather Leson'; 'Noel Dickover'; Andy Carvin
Cc: Jose Leal
Subject: RE: Crisis Camp - Toronto
Hi Noel/Andy,
Great to be on board and meet you. I’m copying my friend and business partner Jose Leal, who is much more of a wiki guy (thanks Heather, but you are too kind – wouldn’t call myself ‘wiki master’). Happy to be involved.
Cheers,
Dragan.
Dragan Stojanovic, CA
Lecturer
Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto
105 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E6
E-mail: Dragan.S...@utoronto.ca
From: Heather Leson
[mailto:heathe...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:35 AM
To: Dragan Stojanovic; Noel Dickover; Andy Carvin
Subject: Re: Crisis Camp - Toronto
Thanks Dragan, Great to have
you on board. Noel/Andy, Meet Dragan. He is a Wiki master and owns a
company in this field. Can you engage him?
I will forward him the google group info.
Dragan, I will add you to the Toronto team mailing list and definitely keep you
in the loop. We need strong leaders who love the Internet.
(I knew that the One Web Day crowd would be people I would want to know and
work with.)
Thanks again
Heather
Heather Leson
Communications Lead
OpenSRS/Tucows Inc.
heathe...@gmail.com
21nig...@gmai.com
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Dragan Stojanovic <dragan.s...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
Hi Heather,
Do you know the google group for point 1? I think Jose (my business partner) could get involved there much more.
Happy to help – great job organizing this. Let me know the location for Sunday, and what I can do to help. I’m not a tech geek (coder), but can certainly help with drumming up, and hopefully in other ways too. This is really new to me, so I’m not sure exactly how I can help the best, but just drop me a line or give me a shout at (416)270-0878 if you think of anything that I can do.
Cheers!!
Dragan.
Dragan Stojanovic, CA
Lecturer
Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto
105 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E6
E-mail: Dragan.S...@utoronto.ca
From:
Heather Leson [mailto:heathe...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:59 PM
To: Dragan Stojanovic
Subject: Crisis Camp - Toronto
HI
Dragan
There a few things on the go:
1. Crisis Camp - global
You are a wiki expert with your company. Noel and the CrisisCamp team are in
the middle of major wiki changes. Maybe you could help them? The contact is :
"Noel Dickover" <ndic...@gmail.com>, (There is a google groups
for all crisis camp organizers)
2. Crisis Camp - Toronto
I could use a hand organizing or drumming up attendance. I have a few
developers, a few project managers, Dave Black from UofT is working on a
location. I have a call tonight with a Tech lead who will help me organize all
the geeks by code language and define what we can offer.
Goal: organizational meeting on Sunday, Jan 24th (12- 5). We will see how it
goes and build for Jan. 31st to grow.
Let me know what you can offer and if you know anyone who can help us.
Thanks,
Heather
Heather Leson
Communications Lead
OpenSRS/Tucows Inc.
heathe...@gmail.com
21nig...@gmai.com
416-726-5138