Disaster relief technical volunteer opportunity

Mon Aug 21 10:40:18 PDT 2006

After Hurricane Katrina last year, I spent some time in Mississippi 
and Louisiana working on disaster relief efforts, along with many 
others high-tech professionals.  Most of us were part of hastily 
organized, ad hoc efforts, with little or nothing in the way of 
pre-event planning, training, and preparation.  You can read about my 
own experiences at 
http://www.greatcircle.com/blog/2005/10/10/just_returned_f.html

I'm now proud to be part of a new organization that is in the process 
of forming, called TechReach International (http://www.techri.org/). 
TechReach's goal is to deploy no-cost telecommunications services 
into humanitarian relief efforts (both domestic disaster relief 
operations, and international humanitarian operations), using 
trained/certified volunteer communications specialists and state of 
the art technology.

TechReach will be hosting a "Simulation Day" in Mountain View (on the 
Intuit campus) on Tuesday, 19 Sep 2006, 12:30pm-6:00pm.  We invite 
you to stop by, meet us, learn about the organization, see demos of 
various disaster relief communication and networking technologies, 
hear a variety of interesting speakers, and contemplate joining or 
supporting us.  Full details are on the web site at 
http://www.techri.org/

I hope to see you there!

-Brent
-- 
Brent Chapman <brent at greatcircle.com> -- Great Circle Associates, Inc.
Specializing in network infrastructure for Silicon Valley since 1989
For info about us and our services, please see http://www.greatcircle.com/
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