Hi all, I live in Punta Arenas, work in tourism (tour operator and guest house) and have a bunch of connections to people who run hostels etc. There could be good possibilities to ask hostel guest who are coming to Chile to bring these devices.
I didn't follow the whole conversation, sorry... How many devices are we talking about? Is anybody familiar with customs procedures - presuming we're talking about more than 1 or 2 units someone would bring and I don't know who easy that would be and of course we wouldn't want to have someone go through a buncha trouble, if we're asking for help. What do you think? Sebastian Sophia Liu schrieb: > Hi Mikel, > > Thank you for finding GPS units. I will talk to my contacts to see how > we can transport these units to Chile. When you purchase these units, > where will they be coming from? I will check to see if my contact in > Pittsburgh has friends going to Chile. > > I did receive your other email and will coordinate with Julio when I > find the contacts who can bring the units to him. > > Thank you for this, Sophia > > > On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > >> >> Hi Sophia >> >> OpenStreetMap has some resources to purchase GPS units for use by OSM >> Chile and CrisisCamp Chile. >> >> We need to coordinate with someone in the US to receive the units, >> and bring them with them to Chile (mail is going to be too long). >> Would that be possible for your friends at CMU? >> >> Mikel >> >> == Mikel Maron == >> +254(0)724899738 @mikel s:mikelmaron >> http://mapkibera.org/ >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Haiti >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* Sophia Liu <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> *To:* [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Thu, March 4, 2010 8:41:31 AM >> *Subject:* Request for devices >> >> *Request for Cameraphones, Cheap GPS-devices, Smartphones, etc.* >> >> I have a contact in Pittsburgh (@favilar) and he is interested in >> getting involved with Crisis Camp. He has a lot of contacts in Chile >> that are ex classmates and ex coworkers in the public and private >> sector and some others. >> >> He also has a Chilean friend at Carnegie Mellon University working on >> project to help Chile. They are wondering if there are companies >> willing to donate smartphones, cameraphones or cheap GPS devices so >> that they can be given to volunteers working with local NGOs and/or >> professional associations and others wanting to help in Chile on the >> ground. They are working on the details but essentially they want to >> allow people to take geotagged photos of damages or other relevant >> disaster information. Let me know if you have any contacts willing to >> donate such devices. >> >> They also would be interested in working with Google in Pittsburgh >> but they do not have any contacts there. Do any of you have contacts >> at the Google Pittsburgh office? >> >> Thanks, Sophia >> >> =================================== >> Sophia B. Liu >> Technology, Media and Society PhD Candidate >> >> ConnectivIT Lab >> Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute >> University of Colorado at Boulder >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> sophiabliu (skype, twitter, facebook) >> >> http://sophiabliu.com >> http://epic.cs.colorado.edu >> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/%7Epalen/connectivIT >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ Talk-cl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-cl
