Semantic Wiki volunteer needed for Crisis Camp - Toronto
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From: Jose Leal <jose...@wikidomo.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:08 PM
Subject: FW: Crisis Camp - Toronto
To: "mar...@cleaver.org" <mar...@cleaver.org>, "Nelson Ko (nel...@citadelrock.com)" <nel...@citadelrock.com>
Cc: "ACa...@npr.org" <ACa...@npr.org>, Dragan Stojanovic <dstoj...@wikidomo.com>
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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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