CrisisCamp -Silicon Valley (PKfloods) – Friday, August 27, 2010

Rock your Friday night by coming to the bar camp/working group to blog and code to aid disaster response and recovery for the 15 million people displaced in the recent Pakistani floods.

CrisisCampSiliconValley – Pakistan Floods (Pkfloods)
Friday August 27, 5pm-10pm
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, NASA Research Campus.
Bldg. 23 (MS 23-11), Moffett Field, CA 94035-0001

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We will focus on:

* Tasks for everyone, anytime. Bring a laptop, but no techie skills required. Tasks include: Pashtun translation, data entry, blogging, text editing, classifying messages, user-interface testing, collating web-based news updates, etc.

* Technical Tiger Teams. We will firm up technical tiger teams to figure out the best way to provide Silicon Valley-located expertise to CrisisCommons projects managed by camps around the world. Check out the specific PKfloods task lists to find a project where your expertise applies.

(post by Jeannie Stamberger, CrisisCamp Silicon Valley)

Posted on August 23, 2010 by in CrisisCamp Happenings, OpenSource tools, translation, Volunteer tasks

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4 Responses to “CrisisCamp -Silicon Valley (PKfloods) – Friday, August 27, 2010”

  1. george chamales August 27, 2010 12:03 am
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    Evening folks – I’m the technical lead for http://pakreport.org – the primary Ushahidi instance that’s being run by a team of volunteers in Pakistan.

    I’m based in Oakland and have got a range of things we could use support on – I’ll see you tomorrow.

    george

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