Come join us on the CrisisCamper!

This fast paced movement can be challenging to many.  Not only does it take a lot of work to incorporate these new tools, relationships must be built to work through the many changes in processes prior to the next event, big or small.
This is where the CrisisCamper comes in.  CrisisCamper?  YES! CrisisCommons is going on a road trip.  What is this road trip for? It is to help build community, educate and collaborate among all the cities that the CrisisCamper is going to visit.  Each city has their own flavor of concerns, issues, needs and successes.  Every city has community that can help both locally and globally.

The CrisisCamper is a 2 week, 10+ southwest city tour bringing all the different, emergency management/public safety, public/private sectors, volunteer/faith based organizations, technical community and others together.  We will be having discussions, meet ups and barcamp events, called CrisisCamps, throughout the trip. We will also be promoting FEMA’s National Preparedness Month. We will be stopping by the National Emergency Management Associations conference in Austin.  The CrisisCamper Tour is starting September 22nd in San Francisco and finishing up in New Orleans on October 8th with great stops in the middle.

What you can do with the CrisisCamper.  Join us!  The CrisisCamper will be traveling in an RV that can fit 7 people while traveling.  We still have some open seats.  You can also join us locally at one of the cities that we are stopping in or as always stop in virtually.  We will probably be one of the most connected RVs on the road!

If you can’t join us, you can still help us.  The CrisisCamper is a project that is funded by all volunteer support.  All of us joining the trip are taking vacations from our day jobs to take part.  This is my two week vacation.  Our city liaisons are working double duty to help us set up each city and we couldn’t do this without them.  The CrisisCamper has needs that you can help support.  We need to feed the camper, she takes regular unleaded and we figure were going to need about 400 gallons total.  Gas cards can help us move her along.  Were using a Cruise America RV that we rented at an awesome rate to help us not have to stay in as many hotels and it’s 30 feet long!  That’s some great real estate to promote our supporters with a wrap of the RV.  The tour is just under 4000 miles of open interstate.  If you or your organization would like to support the CrisisCamper and it’s forward movement of technology and social media in preparedness, response, recovery and planning of crisis management, we would be happy to have you on board!  Please email us and we would be happy to talk.   Or if you just want to support us for a couple of miles, we would be happy with that as well. We set up a PayPal account if you would like to support us. (crisiscamper@gmail.com) As we receive more in kind donations we reduce our budget needs.
More information can be found on the CrisisCamper Tour site.
Come join us or support us on this great trip.  Thank you!