Design Reviews

Hey everyone, not many interesting things have happened this week.  Compared to the past couple weeks, this week has been very tame on the political front.  No news of demonstrations or rioting.  Aristide didn't make his triumphant return to Haiti, and the Bebe Doc proceedings haven't taken fruition.  We do have weeks before a president is named, so there's plenty of time for something to happen.



 The group listens as updates on
the Clinic are revealed



Lyndia & Stacey discuss their work
at the Design Review



This week (and every week) the office puts on Design Reviews.  This gives everyone a chance to see each other's work, see progress and make suggestions.  We usually have them last thing Fridays, but this week we had it on Thursday.  That's because we had a couple other NGOs joining us:  the Open Street Map and Building Goodness Foundation.  Both are groups involved with projects in Haiti.  Open Street Map is a wiki-based website which allows users to edit a worldwide network of maps.  It's kind of like Wikipedia, but with roads and landmarks instead of encyclopedia entries.  Building Goodness Foundation is like many other NGOs, looking to build communities in places of need.  They have been working in Latin America for a while, but now they have set up permanent building managers in Haiti following the earthquake.  Unfortunately for us, neither of these groups presented any of their work, we just showed them ours.

I will attach links to the Open Street Map and Building Goodness Foundation.  You can see much of our work we presented on the Open Architecture Network.