http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog Free science and engineering in the global public interest Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:26:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TL;DR we're raising money to do the science required to put hexayurts on the ground in Haiti. you can help by giving Science for Humanity the cash for the research drive. click here ======= THE DETAILS ======= If you prefer, a Spanish translation from Lucas Gonzalez The Hexayurt Project is not a charity. It ... http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-smart-money-changing-how-we-approach-disaster-1692 Click to Play play_blip_movie_3233840(); http://crisiscamp.orghttp://crisiscampldn.org http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/crisis-camp-london-progress-reports-feb-13-2010-1691 http://crisiscamp.orghttp://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Crisis_Camp_LondonTeam lead meeting, with briefing on the mapping task and google analytics task. http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/crisiscampldn-team-leads-meeting-noon-feb-13-2010-1688 Mainly a discussion of how broad network access allows remote groups to help in disasters, and how we must think about helping out during disasters in poor-but-networked countries in totally new ways. Healing Haiti Or you can get the Healing Haiti slides as a PDF if ... http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/healing-haiti-slides-from-todays-talk-in-leeds-1683 This document outlines the basic elements of the Hexayurt Shelter in general, and one specific configuration suitable for use in Haiti. It's 17 pages, and covers a lot of the hurricane resistance features that we envisage using in Haiti this year. The Hexayurt in Haiti ... http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-hexayurt-in-haiti-a-technical-description-1678 Buttered Side Down's Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps were on the telly! (iplayer link, Click, 31st of January 2010, 11m05s) We just did a little revision of the document, tidied up a few bits. You can see the full document here. http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/minor-revisions-to-dealing-in-security-scim-individual-etc-1667 @dougald and I (@leashless) discuss What Do You Do, After You Stop Pretending?, which looks at the Dark Mountain Project and the Hexayurt Project in the same glance, and does some thinking about the future of the village in the process. http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/what-do-you-do-after-you-stop-pretending-new-video-1662 Hi everybody! #ccpeople is a project to visualize the global crisis camp. Here's how it works. At each Crisis Camp, take pictures and upload them to Twitter using TwitPic or something similar. Give each tweet the following format: URL - First name @twitter_id "task at crisis camp" #ccpeople #cchaiti #location_tag Here's an example: http://twitpic.com/10h7z5 ... http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/ccpeople-visualizing-the-global-crisis-camp-1655 Click to Play play_blip_movie_3172095(); Crisis Camp London http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/crisis-camp-london-saturday-jan-30th-pm-team-leaders-reports-1654 Click to Play play_blip_movie_3172103(); Crisis Camp Londonlopad.org http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/crisis-camp-london-saturday-jan30th-lopad-intro-1653