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| 10/06/2005 | collection of Open Source application demos | opensourceCMS.com |  |  |
This Web site has a large collection of working demo installations of Open
Source PHP/mySQL-based applications in various categories. You can check out
both the user frontend and the admin control panel. Admin username and password
is given for each application. Applications are wiped and reinstalled every two
hours.
- Portals (CMS)
- Blogs
- e-Commerce
- Groupware
- Forums
- e-Learning
- Image Galleries
- Wiki
- Lite
- Miscellaneous (incudes chat, calendar, document management)
The ratings page may also be of interest:
| | | 10/05/2005 | Dgroups: example of 'off-the-rack' online tools | Dgroups: Development Through Dialogue | | | Dgroups: Development Through Dialogue
Dgroups is an online home for groups and communities interested in
international development.
In Dgroups, one can find the online tools and services needed to support
the activities of a team, a group, a network, a partnership or a
community.
Dgroups currently supports 1455 groups, containing 43043
members.
Site can be open or closed (public or private). Each site has the same
simple layout and offers a set of standard tools - mailing list, combination
document repository, links and news list, contact list, and calendar. Is is
explicitly designed with low bandwidth users in mind.
A couple of examples of sites:
Schools Against Hunger
Cyber Community for Disadvantaged Groups
A project is underway to move DGroups to the CivicSpace Drupal platform.
This will make a much wider range of tools available to participating
groups.
Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD,
OneWorld, UNAIDS, and World Bank.
| | | 09/30/2005 | MIT Media Lab: One Laptop Per Child | The $100 laptop moves closer to reality | | | | CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A low-cost computer for the masses moved one step closer to reality on Wednesday. | | | 09/05/2005 | CI assists with disaster relief | | | |
thought folks might be interested in this thread describing how
community informatics helps with disaster relief - several nonprofit
organizations have worked together to set up a community tech center in
the astrodome, and create a missing persons database.
ann
> Steve, friends and colleagues,
> A centralized database could be incredibly useful. Even at the local
> level, there are significant database issues. I do know however of at
> least three groups working on various versions of a centralized
> database. Plus I also know of several groups creating web crawlers to
> search data in the multitude of people connector sites. At the local
> level in Houston we had persons in the ACT Center connecting through
> www.familymessages.org and persons with Tablet PCs in another part of
> the dome using the MSNBC site over TFA's wireless network in the dome
> because the family messages site was overloaded. It was not a local
> bandwidth issue because even with the hard wired connections in the
> ACT Center, the family messages site was real sluggish when we had 90
> persons at the Center looking for loved ones at the same time. The Red
> Cross has its own internal database, that because of a variety of
> reasons is not connected at this time to other databases. It is my
> understanding however, that a proposed Red Cross solution to this
> problem is expected as early as Monday or Tuesday.
>
> I encourage all of you to keep working on a solution. However, if the
> solution creators could get together, it would even better.
>
> The stories are heartbreaking. While I am working at a macro level, I
> am also able to observe the celebrations when people find loved one or
> experience the heartache of those who are still searching. Yesterday,
> an older gentlemen came into the ACT Center looking for his wife who
> he had not seen in five days. Through one of the online people
> connector sites, he discovered that his wife was on her way to the
> Astrodome from Louisiana to pick him up. At the Superdome they had
> gotten separated in the bus area. She ended up at another site in LA
> and he ended up at the Astrodome. He was distraught when came in and
> left with a huge smile on his face. Then there was another man, a
> 35ish young father who had not seen his wife and two daughters for
> three days. He was frantic to find them. He posted his information
> and looked for information about them on several connector sites. He
> did not find them. Hopefully, what all of these sites and the ACT
> Center created was a greater chance that he would be reunited with his
family.
>
> Will
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Steve Wright [mailto:SWright@salesforce.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 5:14 PM
> To: Steve Wright; Will Reed; Richard Jaeggi;
> ctcmembers@lists.ctcnet.org; members@afcn.org; GIO@lists.cait.org
> Cc: Jim Forrest
> Subject: RE: [ctcnet] Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts in Houston -
> CTC planned for th...
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> I totally neglected to mention the good folks who are working together
> to make this happen. I apologize for misrepresenting this program.
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> This is a collaborative effort between Social Source Foundation,
> CivicSpaceLabs, salesforce.com and techforall that I know of. There
> are many other orgs pitching in to make this happen. These orgs will
> be listed on http://blog.social-source.com/
>
>
>
> Steve Wright
>
> Program / Technical Director
>
> w: 415 901-5606
>
> f: 415 358-4304
>
> fax2 (for CRM donations): 415 520-0124
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Steve Wright
> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 8:40 AM
> To: Will Reed; Richard Jaeggi; ctcmembers@lists.ctcnet.org;
> members@afcn.org; GIO@lists.cait.org
> Cc: Jim Forrest
> Subject: RE: [ctcnet] Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts in Houston -
> CTC planned for th...
>
>
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> Jim at al,
>
> Please let me know what we can do at salesforce.com. We can marshall
> remote resources and people who can travel if need be. We can get
> programmers from our company or any of our partners.
>
> Most immedialtly, we will have a centralized database for missing /
> dispalaced person up and running very quickly. The purpose here is to
> use the slesforce.com capacity to pull data from all over the web (via
> rss from existing sites, volunteer input or input by the effected
> populations temselves at centers like yours). We may have Houston
> area customers who can bring some machines or networking equipment.
> I'll look into that right now. Please let me know if that is a need.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Reed [mailto:Will.Reed@techforall.org]
> Sent: Sat 9/3/2005 4:51 AM
> To: Steve Wright; Richard Jaeggi; ctcmembers@lists.ctcnet.org;
> members@afcn.org; GIO@lists.cait.org
> Cc: Jim Forrest
> Subject: RE: [ctcnet] Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts in
Houston
> - CTC planned for th...
> Steve,
> Thanks! We are swamped getting things up and running. Our IT
> coordinator on these projects is Jim.Forrest@techforall.org. His
> direct line is 713.454.6413. For more info go to our blog on
> www.techforall.org
>
> Will
>
> _____
>
> From: Steve Wright [mailto:SWright@salesforce.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 3:21 PM
> To: Richard Jaeggi; Will Reed; ctcmembers@lists.ctcnet.org;
> members@afcn.org; GIO@lists.cait.org
> Subject: RE: [ctcnet] Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts in Houston -
> CTC planned for th...
>
>
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> Salesforce.com is offering its data management solution as well as
> configuration assistance to anyone involved in the relief efforts.
>
>
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> We have a couple of organizations to whom we are actively deploying as
> we speak. If you know of any organizations that can use this help,
> please let me know.
>
>
>
> We are also working closely with CivicSpace and CiviCRM to create a
> robust, searchable database of missing persons that will aggregate
> data from across the web.
>
>
>
> Steve Wright
>
> Program / Technical Director
>
> w: 415 901-5606
>
> f: 415 358-4304
>
> fax2 (for CRM donations): 415 520-0124
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: Richard Jaeggi [mailto:rj@bigacorn.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:45 PM
> To: Will.Reed@techforall.org; ctcmembers@lists.ctcnet.org;
> members@afcn.org; GIO@lists.cait.org
> Subject: RE: [ctcnet] Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts in Houston -
> CTC planned for th...
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> Three cheers for Will and TFA. This highlights a critical aspect of
> emergency response in which community technology could play a
> pioneering
> role: emergency communications. I haven't really thought this through
> from the technical side, but from the emergency response side
> flexible, robust, and dependable communication is a priority for
> people in crisis, right up there with food and water.
>
>
>
> Internet connection is ideal and works well in the Astrodome. When the
> grid goes down what are the communication options? Text messaging
> worked when voice wouldn't. Ham radio is the old standby. What other
> low cost technical solutions are available?
>
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> rj
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> Richard Jaeggi, Director
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> Community Technology
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> Howard University Center for Urban Progress
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> 1840 7th Street, NW
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> Washington, DC 20001
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> 202-865-8581
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> rjaeggi@howard.edu
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> In a message dated 9/1/2005 1:58:29 PM Central Daylight Time,
> Will.Reed@techforall.org writes:
>
> Technology For All(TFA) is working with its community and corporate
> partners to set up a Community Technology Center (CTC) at Houston's
> Astrodome, which will soon be home for 25,000 evacuees from the New
> Orleans Superdome. We are pleased to have the opportunity to help in
> this way and have made an initial commitment to install a 40 station
> CTC. We expect we will need to expand that, but want to move quickly
> with what we can do and then assess the additional need. TFA also
> anticipates working with public leaders and officials to assist in the
> deployment of a Wireless Mesh Network in the Astrodome. Those details
> are under discussion. Pam Gardner (Pam.Gardner@techforall.org
> 713.454.6415) on our staff is coordinating volunteer efforts to set up
> the CTC and then provide programming assistance. TFA will need
> additional computers (Pentium 4 or faster), software, volunteers, $'s
> and organizational capacity to pull this off. Thanks in advance for
> your assistance. As more details are worked out we will pass them
along.
>
>
>
> Will | | | 08/14/2005 | Learning in Communities | LinC | | | The Learning in Communities workshop was organized by John Carroll at
Penn State. Participants explored the integration of community
informatics and community inquiry.
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