From: Martin C.
Sent on: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 2:31 PM
Guys - anyone here at Toronto Wiki Tuesdays or Center for Social Innovation or Torcamp able to help with the Semantic Wiki needs for Crisis Camp?

If not, I'll reach out to the global WikiSym / WikiMania crowd.

Thanks,
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From: Jose Leal <[address removed]>
Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:08 PM
Subject: FW: Crisis Camp - Toronto
To: "[address removed]" <[address removed]>, "Nelson Ko ([address removed])" <[address removed]>
Cc: "[address removed]" <[address removed]>, Dragan Stojanovic <[address removed]>


Hey Guys,

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I?m wondering if this is something (see below) that you might be able to assist with. Or you might direct us to someone that can. Any help would be appreciated.

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Jose

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From: Andy Carvin [mailto:[address removed]]
Sent: January[masked]:11 PM
To: Dragan Stojanovic
Cc: Jose Leal
Subject: RE: Crisis Camp - Toronto

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Hi Jose, hi Dragan, I?m andy carvin and I?m coordinating the CrisisWiki.org project. I?ve been involved in creating wikis in response to disasters since the tsunami five years ago, but this time we?re trying to do something different. We?re creating a wiki can be extensible for any disaster around the world, as well as organizing emergency preparedness resources at the local, state, national or international level. Ideally, we?d allow people to submit resources based on type of resource and geographic reach, and then when a disaster strikes, we can easily deploy templates that are populated with this information, plus whatever else people want to add. Our plan is to use the MediaWiki Semantic Bundle to accomplish this, but we don?t have many people on the project who are well versed in it. By any chance have you used it before to create ontologies? That?s our primary technical need, along with anyone with an eye for info architecture. Beyond that, most of the volunteers will focus on collecting disaster related resources for Haiti and other disaster-prone regions, so we can a baseline of resources in the can, in preparation for whatever happens next.

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Thanks,

andy

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From: Dragan Stojanovic [mailto:[address removed]]
Sent: Thursday, January 21,[masked]:39 AM
To: 'Heather Leson'; 'Noel Dickover'; Andy Carvin
Cc: Jose Leal
Subject: RE: Crisis Camp - Toronto

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Hi Noel/Andy,

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Great to be on board and meet you. I?m copying my friend and business partner Jose Leal, who is much more of a wiki guy (thanks Heather, but you are too kind ? wouldn?t call myself ?wiki master?). Happy to be involved.

Cheers,

Dragan.

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Dragan Stojanovic, CA

Lecturer

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

University of Toronto

105 St. George Street

Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E6

E-mail: [address removed]

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From: Heather Leson [mailto:[address removed]]
Sent: Thursday, January 21,[masked]:35 AM
To: Dragan Stojanovic; Noel Dickover; Andy Carvin
Subject: Re: Crisis Camp - Toronto

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Thanks Dragan, Great to have you on board.? Noel/Andy, Meet Dragan. He is a Wiki master and owns a company in this field.? Can you engage him??

I will forward him the google group info.

Dragan, I will add you to the Toronto team mailing list and definitely keep you in the loop. We need strong leaders who love the Internet.
(I knew that the One Web Day crowd would be people I would want to know and work with.)

Thanks again

Heather

Heather Leson
Communications Lead
OpenSRS/Tucows Inc.
[address removed]
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Dragan Stojanovic <[address removed]> wrote:

Hi Heather,

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Do you know the google group for point 1? I think Jose (my business partner) could get involved there much more.

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Happy to help ? great job organizing this. Let me know the location for Sunday, and what I can do to help. I?m not a tech geek (coder), but can certainly help with drumming up, and hopefully in other ways too. This is really new to me, so I?m not sure exactly how I can help the best, but just drop me a line or give me a shout at [masked] if you think of anything that I can do.

Cheers!!

Dragan.

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Dragan Stojanovic, CA

Lecturer

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

University of Toronto

105 St. George Street

Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E6

E-mail: [address removed]

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From: Heather Leson [mailto:[address removed]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 20,[masked]:59 PM
To: Dragan Stojanovic
Subject: Crisis Camp - Toronto

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HI Dragan

There a few things on the go:

1. Crisis Camp - global
You are a wiki expert with your company. Noel and the CrisisCamp team are in the middle of major wiki changes. Maybe you could help them? The contact is : "Noel Dickover" <[address removed]>,? (There is a google groups for all crisis camp organizers)

2. Crisis Camp - Toronto
I could use a hand organizing or drumming up attendance. I have a few developers, a few project managers, Dave Black from UofT is working on a location. I have a call tonight with a Tech lead who will help me organize all the geeks by code language and define what we can offer.

Goal: organizational meeting on Sunday, Jan 24th (12- 5). We will see how it goes and build for Jan. 31st to grow.

Let me know what you can offer and if you know anyone who can help us.

Thanks,

Heather


Heather Leson
Communications Lead
OpenSRS/Tucows Inc.
[address removed]
[address removed]
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