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Crisis Commons Coffee Chat

Saturday, April 3, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (ET)

Ottawa, Ontario

Crisis Commons Coffee Chat

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Hello,

I'm in Ottawa for a visit and am one of organizers for Crisis Commons (Toronto).

I'd love to share the progress from the CrisisCommons Founders Weekend (held at the World Bank March 20/21, 2010 (Washington DC)) and share details about the CrisisCamp (Haiti) and (Chile) - Toronto experiences. Some folks from Montreal are kindly driving in to talk about their experiences. There was a Crisis Camp (Ottawa) and we have also invited them to join us.

You are welcome to join us for coffee and learn all about Crisis Commons. We would love to help you build Crisis Commons in your city.


Please bring a laptop and coffee money for the Bridgehead.


Here's a CBC article about us: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/03/30/f-haiti-rebuild-tapscott.html

Agenda:

Originally, I planned to for informal coffee. I was rightly asked for a plan. Here's a brief agenda. If you can attend only part of the afternoon and just want to listen in please do.  (I welcome your input too)

1:00 - 2:00

* meet and greet

*What is Crisis Commons

2:00 - 3:00

*What are the succesful completed projects and current projects

*Montreal to talk about their project and ask for help.

3:00 - 5:00

*I will demo Crabgrass, Ushahidi and Swift River

*How can you help? How can we help build in your cities? 

*Open agenda. I've asked a few open source communities to talk about how their work contributes

*answer questions, hatch plans, more meet and greet, brainstorming

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 Website: http://crisiscommons.org/

A Network of Professionals

* Crisis Commons facilitates partnerships and maintains a network of technology volunteers to respond to specific needs. We are knowledge workers, FOSS advocates, GIS and Open Street Map creators, developers, specialists, communicators, first responders, project managers, Open Government proponents and Internet saavy.

 * 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.

Looking forward to meeting you


Heather Leson