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Proposed by: Knud Sørensen, Århus Denmark
Contact (Knud Sørensen, knud@all-technology.com, +4561370832 ):
Best way and times to contact during RHoK 2.0 Dec 4/5 2010: email
The purpose of this application is help decrease your dependency on fossil fuel and increase reforestation of the planet.
The growing deforestation of the planet, causes landslides, sinking water levels, soil erosion and frequently degrade into wasteland.
Our dependencies on fossil fuels contribute to raising CO2 level, disasters like the Mexican golf and the peak oil problem.
So, this is crises responce application where the crisise is more long term than the normal RHOK apps.
The applicate ask you questions about your life style and calculate your CO2 footprint and then
tells how many trees you need to plant to become C02 positive.
As an alternative it could also tell you how much forest you need to buy and preserve.
The application will also give you suggestion about how to reduce your CO2 footprint.
Can you give a real world example of when this would be useful? e.g. in the Haiti earthquake many people were trapped in buildings but didn't have enough signal to call. (note, this isn't actually true)
It will MASSIVELY help eveyone if you could make a quick (1-2 min) video introducing your project. These will be shown to participants at all the RHoK events worldwide. Clearly the better the pitch, the more chance you have of getting great people to work on your project. If you don't make the pitch yourself then you'll have to rely on someone locally reading your problem to the audience.
Outline one or more short (one paragraph) user stories/use cases/scenarios that describe how someone would use a solution to solve the problem. Alternately outline the scenario for someone confronted by a problem, and provide some options/thoughts for how technology or a hack might help them
e.g. Problem: Ana is at home when an earthquake strikes. Most of the building collapses and she is stuck inside, injured but mostly OK. She has a cellphone with her. She is terrified, and tries to call the police, and then her friends for help, but there's no reception. Eventually her battery runs down and she's worried she can't make any more calls.
After the earthquake stress sensors in the wallpaper of her living room trigger and activate a bluetooth receiver powered by a battery. Ana's cellphone senses via bluetooth and makes an automatic connection (she set it up beforehand). Antenna embedded in the wallpaper gives Ana greater reception and signal strength so she can reach a standing tower and her call goes through.
You can also go ahead and produce detailed use cases for each user story (or on their own) if that's where you're at. e.g.
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What else do they need to know? What constraints
e.g. No AC power. Must cost less than $0.001/unit. Existing code is all 80288 assembler, so hack must use that.
Fabulous extensions that would rock the world if completed
http://www.carbonify.com/carbon-calculator.htm
How will this work be taken to real users, or further developed? Will this be an ongoing team? Is there a NGO/group that's sponsoring it as an ongoing project? Who/how/when?
Link to RHoK and other solutions projects, including different groups, but particularly the Project pages from RHoK events
e.g. Was worked on by team in Malawi during RHoK 1.0 and they built a working proof of concept, (link to project page). But dev has stalled.