Comments on: Firefox browser CAP alerting plugin (Sahana idea for GSOC2009)

By: Nuwan

Nuwan — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:26:52 +0000

Gavin, can you possibly update this blog or write a new blog with the actual work done; there’s no literature on the actual development that took place as well as a link to the code-base; I’ve been citing this blog but we need an updated citation.

By: Tim McNamara

Tim McNamara — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:16:34 +0000

@Dave
@gt

CAP Messaging allows for different message statuses: Actual, Draft, Exercise, System, Test.

Ideally a CAP generator should simply be able to be set to “Exercise Mode” and produce “for exercise” messages. The CAP reader could then have a “For exercise” watermark or some similar mechanism.

By: Google investing USD$50,000 in Sahana at Gav’s Blog

Google investing USD$50,000 in Sahana at Gav’s Blog — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:16:26 +0000

[...] up with ideas (I’m stoked to have two students working on CAP ideas that came out of my earlier suggestion), and reviewing each and every of the 45 proposals we recieved, it has been exciting to get so many [...]

By: Gavin Treadgold

Gavin Treadgold — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:43:52 +0000

@Dave – The best approach for exercises, is probably to allow people to optionally sign up to an exercise feed (and tests would fall into the same category). A test would probably be the best way to undertake it, and it could perhaps be linked to preparedness messages. E.g. 12 preparedness actions might be identified by the relevant emergency management agency for the year ahead, and each test message would remind people to undertake a personal preparedness action e.g. April may be ‘refill your water’ month. Good idea to incorporate this as well though! But it definitely needs to be in a separate and optional feed. In exercises, we always prefix messages with the likes of EXERCISE ONLY, and this is something that could be done with an exercise feed is actually build it into the system so that all messages on an EXERCISE ONLY or TEST MESSAGE feed is automatically prefixed by the system to ensure that no messages as part of an exercise go out on a real feed, or appear as a real message.

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Peer-to-peer serving of CAP messages at Gav’s Blog — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:48:40 +0000

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By: Shree Kant Bohra

Shree Kant Bohra — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:31:54 +0000

Being a firefox addon developer this idea is making me interested a lot, I would like to apply for this idea for this year’s summer of code. I will be soon writing on mailing lists.

Thanks

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:09:42 +0000

Gavin -

Excellent ideas. My experience with emergency action messages makes me think that a good extension to your idea would be an ability to switch the plugin into ‘scenario’ or ‘exercise’ mode. Those opted in could participate in monthly full-scale disaster events by sending and receiving exercise messages, while those who don’t want to be bothered will not be inundated with messages. I suggest this because a problem with implementing these kind of warning systems is that disasters happen infrequently (hopefully) so people’s attention to, and familiarity with these systems stagnate. This approach might also help recruit people to install the plugin.

By: Nuwan

Nuwan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:25:54 +0000

I think this definitely a must on pursuing. I’d be interested being a GSoC co mentor on this project.

sharing some of the CAP related work and ideas that I’m pursuing …

Radio Data System for transporting alerts
http://waidyanatha.blogspot.com/2009/02/common-alerting-protocol-messages-over.html

HF radio for transporting text alerts
http://waidyanatha.blogspot.com/2008/12/short-messaging-and-common-alerting.html

P2P CAP Broker concept
http://waidyanatha.blogspot.com/2008/06/p2p-cap-broker-for-communicating.html