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Tablet PC Developers: Windows Anywhere conf early bird discount ends tomorrow

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www.microsoftwindowsanywhere.com

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from VSLive:Like us, you’re undoubtedly buried in email but don’t forget this Wednesday, January 5th is the deadline to register for VSLive! and earn your Early Bird discount of $200. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco, Feb 6-10.

There are 2 days of Tablet PC Development tracks. Come find out how I created the online Doodle application!

 

http://www.AcehAid.org

How the local community in Indonesia is outreaching the international aid orgs

Asia

this is amazing

http://spaces.msn.com/members/susijohnston/Blog/cns!1p9unOFWMVQ3UgLkL7kGIYDA!213.entry

please help these people! they are getting INTO the aceh province they are getting supplies in. They are not getting stuck in the airport or at theports. It is getting harder and harder to get supplies and people uot into the field.

 

http://www.idepfoundation.org/aceh_aid.html

URGENT NEED for More Virtual Volunteers and networking help

Asia

Keith and I can only do so much. We are on a 13(me) and 10( Keith) hour Time difference with the office in Bali. They need more people that can help them out. They emailed in the middle of the night with virus worries. Can someone help us? Our huge worldwide network….somone??

We are not only trying to support those needs but also scrambling to find connections for hardware (i.e. we found mac hardward but now need to arrange funding, also they are desparate for an external hard drive to back up).

Please go the the www.idepfoundation.org/aceh_aid.html page and also Susi’s blog at http://spaces.msn.com/members/susijohnston to see what is needed. I have to go back to get a few moreo hours of sleep.

thanks

http://www.idepfoundation.org/aceh_aid.html

News from Paschal Leloup in Phuket

Asia

Paschal and his wife were in Phuket when the tsunami hit. They stayed and have found ways to help. You can tell how much this experience has tied his heart and sould to Phuket. He wants to make sure the whole world hears that now more than ever, they need their tourist industry to thrive. Read more.

http://www.idepfoundation.org/aceh_aid.html

Virtual Volunteering with Groove and Mission Mode

Community Cheerleading

While Keith and I have been living on i.m. for the last few days, SB Chatterjee who works closely with Groove has been using Groove’s Virtual Office to help out with aid organizations overseas in disaster relief.

Here is his blog post about that.

Groove also placed their system in other organizations and it is enabling geeks all over world to lend their technical expertise to all of those who are doing their incredible response work. We were also made the same offer (thanks!!) but with Aceh Aid mostly being on Macs, and with a current 20-30K dialup line combined with the fact that I wouldn’t want to have them try to set up VPC Mac on their own…makes it (currently) not doable. Possibly when we succeed in getting them more equipment (and we still need help!!) and they get the broadband they have been promised, we may be able to take them up on the offer.

In the meantime, through Robert Scoble’s blog we had an offer from Mission Mode for Susi and all of her volunteers over there that are spread around indonesia. It will enable them to use a service that becomes a command center for all of their sms text messaging. That will be awesome once it is set up.



http://www.idepfoundation.org/aceh_aid.html