Disaster relief technical volunteer opportunity

[Scott Doty]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:40:18AM -0700, Brent Chapman wrote:
> TechReach will be hosting a "Simulation Day" in Mountain View (on the 
> Intuit campus) on Tuesday, 19 Sep 2006, 12:30pm-6:00pm.  We invite 
> you to stop by, meet us, learn about the organization, see demos of 
> various disaster relief communication and networking technologies, 
> hear a variety of interesting speakers, and contemplate joining or 
> supporting us.  Full details are on the web site at 
> http://www.techri.org/

It sounds like a very good idea -- I would strongly urge, however,
coordination with existing telecommunications plans, esp. FEMA.

For the gentleman who brought up the ARRL -- what kind of telecommunications
do they bring to disaster sites?

 -Scott