Wanna build digital tools to help disaster relief?

Have in-the-trenches experience in disasters, emergency management and need a digital tool? 

Come join us for CrisisCampSV, the first CrisisCamp of the CrisisCamper Tour!

This Saturday, join us at Google HQ for a full day of brainstorming, coding, and project development around the next suite of digital tools for disaster relief. Local emergency managers and first responders are welcome to come and participate to share your needs with the technologist community. Techies you are welcome to come flex your skills. Everyone is welcome to learn and share about existing tools and needs.

One of the projects that will be kicked off at this event is an open source disaster event detection platform. This project will bring together techies around culling disaster information from social media for improved disaster response. (details below)

Have other projects you want to discuss? Come join us!

Please spread the word (Twitter hashtags: #crisiscamper, #ccsv)

Questions? Contact the camp organizers:

• Pascal Schuback,  CrisisCamper Tour lead, pascal@schuback.com
• Alex Rose, Los Angeles CrisisCamp City Lead, alexrosela@gmail.com
• Kyle Eberly, Community Manager, Life360 kyle@life360.com
• Ahmed Nagy, Silcon Valley CrisisCampm City Co-Lead,  ahmed.nagy@gmail.com

About the CrisisCamper Tour

The CrisisCamper Tour is a month-long road trip of CrisisCamps to promote digital preparedness  and bring together emergency managers and technologist communities, as part of National Preparedness month,(http://crisiscommons.org/2011/06/16/tour/; Twitter: @CrisisCamper, #crisiscamper). The CrisisCamper Tour is an offshoot of CrisisCommons, a volunteer community digitally assisting in  disaster relief (http://crisiscommons.org/).

Along the tour the CrisisCommons community will learn from the crisis experts, the tech community and support local emergency managers public health officials and community organizers to build relationships across these groups.open forum for communities to dialogue and create really cool projects at the local level to help their community be better prepared for disasters 

Come and share your ideas; brain storm about your experiences, needs or thoughts regarding crisis management tools.

About the Open Source Event Detection Platform for Disasters

Please join us to craft the beginning of building an open source event detection platform, to search social media in near real-time for emerging disasters and speed disaster relief. This is a computer science 'hard' problem, involving cloud computing, crowdsourcing, natural language processing, maching learning and all sorts of other exciting problems, so coders, bring on your mad skills.

Contact Ahmed Nagy for details: ahmed.nagy@gmail.com