I am at FooCamp getting to hang out with a few friends and talking about technology, emergency management, and finance. I’ve pimped Swivel, BarCampBankSeattle, and Black Rock Federal where it’s been appropriate, gave a “FooCamp Survival Guide” lightning talk, and am giving a talk tomorrow on Designing for Disaster & DisasterCamp

Designing for Disaster & DisasterCamp

Date: Sunday, June 24

Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Location: jackal (tent)
Track:“Another F***ing Growth Opportunity”

The first part of this talk will cover a few (painful/entertaining/instructive) lessons I’ve learned from emergency management and humanitarian aid. We’ll then talk about how these apply to you and the technologies you design.

Then we’ll talk about DisasterCamp, a project to provide training and operational experience under realistic conditions… (AKA: “hazing the n00bs”).

I leave here tomorrow and fly out to meet the Swivel Team in Turkey for the OECD World Economic Forum.

BarCampBank

• BarCampBankSeattle announced (original post)
• Currently selecting date and location

Black Rock Federal

• Revised Field of Membership revised to be IgnitionNW
• Met with Credit Union executives, discussing possible partnerships
• Waiting on charter details from NCUA

DisasterCamp (New Project)

• Initiated new project which I’ll be talking about more about soon!

LimberMedia

• See Allegra’s Updates on the blog

Other stuff

• Will be helping Brady with Ignite @ Where2.0
• Considering entering GreaseBallRally 2008 with an ambulance or fire engine.



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I’m giving a talk at the Web2.0Expo on Wednesday called “Failures, Disasters, & Resilient Design“. I’ll be using some of the lessons-learned from our deployment and how they apply to managing technology.

Failures, Disasters, & Resilient Design
(Click here for ExpoCal!)

Jesse Robbins, ex-Amazon, OpenAid

Track: Web Operations
Date: Wednesday, April 18
Time: 4:30pm - 5:20pm
Location: 2008

This talk reviews real world examples of complex systems failure and how they relate to Web 2.0. Drawing on his work as the “Master of Disaster” at Amazon and using examples from Nuclear Power to his own experiences after Hurricane Katrina, Jesse will provide:

• A methodology for managing risk with Web 2.0 technologies.
• Best practices for building Resilient Systems with Web Services & Web Scale Computing
• Stories and pictures of things blowing up!

Here’s the full-version of one of my slides: