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[Phaedra]

Coordination

[angelo]

I'd be more then willing to be person #1 or #2 until about 2:00pm PDT. At 2:00pm I leave work, grab an axon, then rush to my worship gig till 7:00pm PDT or so.

So I can cover the morning shift if Phaedra want's to cover the afternoon. Now we just need two more people that are willing to do the same for the other unit.

[Mad Cow]

Re: Coordination

[aliendial]

Remember, for a good chunk of the day we had 2-3 passphrases live at the same time before they started expiring. So the status report at any one time during the day will be a LIST of live passphrases, from oldest to newest.

[Mad Cow]

I'm trying to think of ways other people can help coordinate throughout the day. Especially if they dont have access to an axon but would like to help.

So now is your chance if you've been dying to get in on some of the action but have no chance to directly answer phones.

I'm sure people who have access to a phone and internet at the same time would be preferable. That way you could take incoming calls and email, pm, or chat the information around to someone who can deliver it.

Anyone have any ideas on the best way to go about this? I have some of my own but I feel like I am taking over and it seems a bit selfish.

[bcriswell]

(Speaking as someone who did not participate in last weeks passphrases since I live in England.)

Would it be simpler for someone to set up their cell phone voicemail with the passphrases? You could leave your cell phone off (or do not answer any numbers you do not recognize), and everyone would have instant access to the passphrases throughout the day without you having to answer the phone repeatedly. And multiple people would be able to check simultaneously. All the person with the cell phone would have to do is keep the voice mail up to date.

[aliendial]

Excellent point. And yikes another data point to keep updating during the day (speaking from experience it gets dizzying when lots of things are happening and you are trying to keep updating a couple different places). Nonetheless for those who need to get in touch a fallback of getting your voicemail message is probably a good idea.

[LordSaryon]

I would be willing to do all of the tasks (i do nothing at work anyway)

I will be able to until about 11:45, and then again at 1:00. I also have hosting space we could use for pictures. email em to me, and I can post em to the site.

I also can set up a quick and dirty email list for people. if they give me phone carrier, and phone number, I can SMS the updated codes.

Let me know what I can do to help. I am more than willing.

[aliendial]

I suppose we should start a time convention - everyone use PDT to be clear. Saryon, MadCow, Phaedra and others - work it out amongst yourselves. I think you should probably all have each other's contact information. Plan a basic setup to announce Monday with point people and backups and be prepared to improvise depending on what Melissa starts asking for in the live calls. The ability to receive and post pics from the road may be important. The ability to encrypt data into the photos may also be important (steganography! w00t!).

We can set up an Announcement (stays permanently at the top) in the Axon forum on Monday for this information and for updates.

/me ducks out before the Donald fires her ass for being so bossy.

[Ranger D]

I'm kinda worried about the possibility of having to send pictures files this next Tues. I see only two ways of getting picture data syncronized quickly to a lot of people from the field.

1. Camera phones that can email/IM picture files. Low res, but instantanious.

2. Regular digital camera and wifi laptop. Find a (hopefully free) wifi hotspot, have someone staying there, ready to upload files. Finding a hotspot in SF or a large urban area should be somewhat easy, but may be difficult for others.

3. Same thing as above, except using a bluetooth enabled phone. You could do this anywhere your phone gets service, but transfering large files will be VERY slow.

Any other suggestions for moving picture data quickly from the field?

[Phaedra]

Beekeeper Network

[Mad Cow]

Sounds about right to me. So now that I dont care if people send me spam because this is an alternate gmail account.
Send an email with your phone number, axon time, location and whatnot... also information regarding previous live calls.... blah blah to

jr.lt.mad.cowSPLATgmail.com
I have a gmail filter setup so please put "Hunting" in the subject line.

Everyone who gets me their information will recieve a call on tuesday around 5-10 minutes before their scheduled call with any relavent information.

Please leave times in PDT or tell me otherwise.

[LordSaryon]

I'd be more than willing to do GC. I can also do BC and probably CC, I don't want to get too overloaded though. I don't have access to mIRC here at work, so I can't write a simple time based script .

I don't have a phone capable of recieving pictures, however, whomever does can contact me, and I will set them up an FTP account for transfers, or can email them to me. I don't mind either way.

My axon is about 15-20 minutes away depending on traffic, and its at 12:18 PDT, so I said 11:45-1:00 just to be sure I get there and back, and also have time to eat

Let me know what else ya need guys

[aliendial]

To quote myself from another thread:

I think teams should still be able to rely on their local axon coordination folks. This can save folks on the road from carrying around 15 phone numbers, esp. if there's a shift change while they are on the road. Let folks sort out locally how they will get information to the forum information collectors.

Updates could come direct to this structure, or they could call their buddy back at work who can speed the info on its way. Whatever works, as long as it is fast.


(Trying not to totally co-opt the working relationships of the teams on the ground.)

[Ranger D]

In my mind this is a very simple solution. Create small local teams/squads made up of two components:

1. Axon Hunters. These are the people in the field who are answering the phones.

2. Operators. The online Eyes and Ears of the Axon Hunters in the field. These people are sitting at a computer monitoring the forums or (idealy) in #beekeepers.

The Operators will notify the Axon Hunters when a relay code has changed and what it is, either by phone, voicemail, SMS, etc. The Axon Hunters will call the Operator in their team and relay new codes that they just gave Melissa, or check info that would otherwise need access to a computer (e.g. coords, maps, etc). The Operator will then post to the forum or IRC the new code.

Ideally you would only want one Operator per squad at a time. This will limit the confusion for Axon Hunters as to who to call, and limit trout in the forums and IRC. If more than one person can be Operator, block out times when each person will be the Operator.

A very simple solution. This worked for Team SF (not our official name yet ) last week.

EDIT-I'm just taking what we did last week and throwing it out there as a suggestion. If you think it works for you, cool. If not, that's totally cool too.