[reposted from an email moments ago]
Hello from Sydney, Australia!
We've been busy hacking away for RHOK 1.0 Sydney and we're still going. RHOK Sydney has people from Christchurch, New Zealand, Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Australia, Chicago, USA, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. One of our special guests is Gavin Treadgold of Sahana Foundation (http://sahanafoundation.org/). Gavin is one of three Emergency Response experts (including Tom Worthington, a professor at the Australian National University and Mauritz van der Vlugt of NGIS) helping developers create with the real world of NGOs and Emergency Response.
It is looking like an all nighter for some of the projects.
We have 6 core groups:
1. Help Stays - a bed finder for volunteers in disaster regions
2. Task Turks - aggregating tasks for disasters
3. Money Tracker - building a donation
4. People Finder - helping match people with their families during emergencies
5. Bushfire connect - Helping people crowdsource information in fire struck regions (using Ushahidi)
6. UAV - finding real-time Geo-referenced imagery
Our wiki link with all the docs, github, links to projects and content:
http://wiki.rhok.org/RHoK_1.0_-_Sydney
Also check out:
Our Ustream channel : http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rhok-sydney
We've posted some great shots on the flickr account for RHOk.
Pics from #rhok1.0 Sydney are up on Flickr http://bit.ly/a7sr2S
youtube videos on some of our projects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmrptULmPLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCpVnUSNjf0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEPmK9lkbtI
Stay Tuned! We will have more videos and be streaming all night. Also follow our ustream chat, twitter @heatherleson or @rhoksydney for real-time updates. For our partner cities, we will see you on ooVoo video conference. We had a nice chat and collaboration with folks from Nairobi about Ushahidi and Bushfire Connect. Looking forward to more synergies.
Here's to taking it Globally.
RHOK Sydney, hosted by the CIE at the ASB / UNSW
Blog for the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at the Australian School of Business (ASB) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). The CIE inspires innovation and entrepreneurship through its educational programs, competitions, events, and research initiatives.
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