CrisisCamp Sydney: Hacking for Pakistan

We are having an event at UNSW, Sydney on the weekend of 4-5 Sept to help with the collection, organizing and sharing of disaster response information for relief agencies in Pakistan. The event is in partnership with the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), World Bank , Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and Drumbeat

Please come along if you have:

1. mapping experience or
2. can code/program or
3. can research for information on the internet or 
4. speak local Pakistani languages or 
5. are familiar with the geography of Pakistan or 
6. generally understand disaster response

Please register here: http://pkfloods-sydney.eventbrite.com/

Feel free to share the event details amongst your contacts. If you have any further queries please don't hesitate to contact the

organizers:

Shoaib Burq

Skype:       spatialgoat

Twitter:      http://twitter.com/sabman

Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein

Skype:       Pinpinfeinstein (audio and video)

Twitter:      http://twitter.com/Pyrmontvicky

kind regards

Random Hacks of Kindness 1.0 from Sydney is going strong!

[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

Random Hack of Kindness - June 5-6

Come join Random Hacks of Kindness 5-6 June. Everyone welcome.

This will be a group effort, so bring your skills in website usability, knowledge of what happens in crises (fires, floods, hurricanes, ..), coding skills (if you got 'em), and your ideas and enthusiasm.

Venue: ASB Lounge, Level 6, Australian School of Business, UNSW, Kensington.

Registration via: http://www.rhok.org/events/rhok-1-0/sydney-australia/