Hackfest!! Crisis Camp @ HackerspaceSG
Hackfest @ HackerspaceSG
Crisis Camp!
linuxNUS is back with its Hackfest and this time our venue is HackerspaceSG! Interestingly, the theme of the Hackfest is “Crisis Camp”! [1] We plan to hack (conceptually and practically) projects for improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief.
Inspired by the CrisisCommons Projects [2] of Crisis Camps, we organise this for NUS students and the local Singapore developer community to join and discuss.
All the hackers/geeks/enthusiasts are invited to attend the linuxNUS Hackfest!
You are also of-course free to work on whichever development project you want to, be it anything ranging from Linux to Android to Facebook. Or you can just collaborate with others on their projects. Look out for the one that interests you.
Date – 7th February, Sunday
Time – 1.30pm to – 6pm
Venue – HackerspaceSG, 70A Bussorah Street [3]
[1] http://www.crisiscommons.org/
[2] http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Projects
[3] http://hackerspace.sg/
You may want to register here : http://tinyurl.com/FebHackfest
Software wise, there seems to be a pretty comprehensive management system called Sahana. This has been http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/” rel=”nofollow”>implemented for Haiti. Another is Ushahidi. There are also mapping efforts.
And darn, I wanted to do this mobile app: http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/news-events/news/2009/geocam-wins.html But it’s good that someone got ahead of me
Here’s another mobile app
Besides software, we can look at hardware solutions like a gasifier and a shelter
Misc readings:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2005/09/02/design-distributed-disaster-relief-system
I am not sure how badly affected is their communication infrastructure. But the mesh potato and the SolarNetOne look useful.
Seeds for hardware hacking I guess.
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