5 PM Conference Call: Haiti DC Crisis Camp Checkpoint, Outcomes
At the end of the day, projects needed to be posted or handed off to the West Coast for more development. The conference call with the Crisis Camps around the country served as a checkpoint and...
View ArticleGeeks without Borders: Crisis Camp spreads around the globe
As the main Crisis Commons blog shared yesterday, Crisis Camp expanded to 12 cities in its second week, with locations around the globe. Today, there will be volunteers working in United States, UK,...
View ArticleKicking off the second week of Crisis Camp DC
Crisis Camp DC has swung into action at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, with introduction and instructions. Crowd at Crisis Camp DC kickoff “Starvation is becoming a big factor,” says Natabara...
View ArticleMorning Checkpoint: Project manager meeting at Crisis Camp Haiti DC
Back of the envelope estimates put about 150 people here at NPR’s Washington offices. Â Quick takeaway from project managers at Crisis Camp DC: Crisis wiki: 8-10 people are on this team, mostly...
View Article4 PM project manager checkpoint at Crisis Camp DC Haiti
At 4 PM, the project managers working in NPR’s offices at Crisis Camp DC came together to look at the day’s accomplishments. As was the case last weekend, there was a tremendous amount of energy, hard...
View ArticleCrisis Camp DC project manager meeting at 11:30 Checkpoint [1.30.2010]
After gathering in the morning to launch the third weekend of Crisis Camp DC, continuing the momentum of civic hacking for Haiti, project managers gathered at 11:30 AM for a checkpoint and goals...
View Article3 PM Checkpoint at Crisis Camp DC: Aspirations Translated to Code
By 3 PM, project managers at Crisis Camp DC had substantive accomplishments to report from the day’s work. Whether it was translation of educational resources, a working crisis resources wiki or a...
View ArticleKicking off Crisis Camp DC: Helping Haiti, Watching Chile [February 27, 2009]
Once again, developers, geospational engineers and online media professionals have come together to work on crisis response applications. Today at the World Bank in Washington, dozens of volunteers are...
View Article11 AM conference call for Crisis Camps around the country
Later in the morning, after the kickoff for Crisis Camp DC, volunteers gathered for a conference call to connect efforts across North America and beyond. The World Bank’s Joaquim Toro offered a...
View ArticleAfternoon Checkpoint at CrisisCamp DC: Bootstrapping and Tackling
As has been the case at each of these events, the rooms of volunteers are rich with quiet, intense conversation punctuated by the tapping of keys and familiar pulse of Tweetdeck notifications. Ushahidi...
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