Hi all, Sorry if you have already gotten this via the Aust-NZ OSGeo list.
Thought some of you maybe interested in coming along and helping out at the CrisisCamp being organized at UNSW Sydney on the weekend of 4-5 Sept. An enterprising team of volunteers and organisational supporters such as Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at the University of New South Wales, and Drumbeat, an open web initiative of the Mozilla Foundation and the World Bank are coming together on the weekend of September 4-5, 2010 in CrisisCamp in Sydney, Australia. We will help find, organize and share spatial information for relief agencies in Pakistan via open source platforms such as Sahana, OpenStreetMap and Ushahidi: 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 7. can blog about events More details at http://pkfloods-sydney.eventbrite.com/ To help us organize the catering please register at: 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 me or Vicky Shoaib Burq Skype: spatialgoat Twitter: http://twitter.com/sabman Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein Skype: Pinpinfeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/Pyrmontvicky kind regards Shoaib Burq -- http://geospatial.nomad-labs.com Canberra, Australia _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au