[Powerstation-discuss] Hackupy

Chris Jefferies chris at tinajalabs.com
Sat Nov 19 18:36:51 UTC 2011


For the flash mob tools, FrontlineSMS looks very useful.
http://www.frontlinesms.com/
http://www.frontlinesms.com/aboutthesoftware/about-the-software/


On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Akiba <chris at freaklabs.org> wrote:
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> Hi all.
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> Thanks to those attending Hackupy at Tokyo Hackerspace. Here’s a summary for those that missed it.
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> -          Nick Farr came down from Kyoto to attend and talk about his experiences at Zucotti Park at the beginning days of the occupy protests
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> -          Three members from Noisebridge came down to talk about what Noisebridge is doing for OccupySF and one member from NYC Resistor talking about NY sanitation
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> -          There is a mailing list to discuss technology for the Occupy movement at: powerstation-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
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> -          Topics
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> l         Using Ushahidi as a central map-based website to locate activity around the protest areas so that newcomers can just check the site to see where to go
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> l         Phone based emails, texts, twitter can be posted to it
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> l         This actually went live as we were talking about it by a separate group: http://maps.occupy.net
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> l         Centralized repository for information
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> l         Similar to the earthquake wiki we had set up
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> l         Currently at the hackerspaces wiki: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Useful_links_for#occupy_protesters
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> l         Please add useful links to it
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> l         Car battery based phone charger
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> l         Taylan’s design he came up with for the tsunami victims is extremely useful in this situation: http://taylanayken.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/12v-phone-charger-v2-0
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> l         We gave four complete kits to the Noisebridge guys to bring back to SF
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> l         ACTION: Taylan is to post the eagle files (currently only png). Also, can you put up a copy of the project page on the THS project site?
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> l         Portable PA system
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> l         People at Zucotti park have to use a human mic to relay messages
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> l         Nick came up with idea of using FM transmitters to transmit voice around the whole area
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> l         This can be extended to a portable, battery operated PA system using a 0.5 to 1W FM transmitter and multiple FM receivers + headphone amps + small built-in speakers (ie: Altoids tins with speakers)
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> l         Akiba (that’s me folks) is currently looking into developing this
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> l         Flash mob tools
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> l         #ows protests may utilize flash mob style for next phases
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> l         Any ideas on how to organize something like this
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> l         Tokyo Hackerspace Crisis Management Group
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> l         MRE, Nick, and I were discussing that ows, the japan earthquake, Egypt, etc have multiple things in common:
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> l         Need for information, communication, power – basic infrastructure things we normally take for granted
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> l         In Tokyo Hackerspace, I’m starting up a crisis management group to start developing hardware with these assumptions
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> l         I am volunteering MRE to the group. He has no choice.
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> l         The main purpose I want to do this is:
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> Ø         Things like car battery phone chargers, portable PA systems, pirate FM transmitters, etc are extremely useful in crisis/disaster scenarios
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> Ø         There is no market for it so we can’t rely on commercial entities to make these
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> Ø         As we’ve seen, by the time we need it, if it’s not ready to go, it’s too late
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> l         With these in mind, we should start building a crisis toolkit now in the anticipation that more disaster/crisis scenarios will occur in the future
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> Useful information
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> l         Most of occupy is currently being organized via facebook and twitter
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> l         People are finding their info via twitter
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> l         This implies that information organization is currently a problem
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> l         Also implies that information history is difficult
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> l         Any suggestions on taking massive amounts of twitter data and organizing it would be useful
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> Akiba
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