Richard Campbell got a chance to sit down and chat with the .Net Core Show about the journey of Humanitarian Toolbox. You can listen to the show here. 

Richard Campbell chats with "The Cynical Developer" on the goals of Humanitarian Toolbox. You can listen to the episode here. 

Steve Gordon thoroughly documents a Humanitarian Toolbox codeathon at .Net South East. You can learn more about how our codeathons work by checking out his post here. 

allReady is built upon ASP.NET Core 1.0 and the team behind it highlighted James Chambers and the allReady project during this week's ASP.NET Community Standup as an example of a publicly developed open source solution to get engaged with to get more experience with this new technology for web development.

James Chambers who is project leader on allReady discusses the project and why you should consider contributing to open source and allReady in particular.  Thanks James!

One of the more prolific contributors to allReady, Steve Gordon, discusses how he got started contributing to Open Source for the first time with our project.  Thanks Steve!

Joel Hulen has shared his experience working at Humanitarian Toolbox's allReady Codeathon, which you can check out on his blog! 

Go here to read more!

Creating IT Futures has announced their support of Humanitarian Toolbox, and have contributed a generous donation to our charity. You can read more on their blog, which can be found here. 

Utest has interviewed our own Alison Wade on her career! You can check it out here.

Arduino attends That Conference and has a mention of HTBox in their review post. You can check it out here. 

Check out TechCrunch.com's review on the Visual Studio 2015 launch, which includes the announcement of a team up between Humanitarian Toolbox and Microsoft. 

You can read their article here.

Check out Visual Studio's newest video on their AllReady project, featuring a cameo by Humanitarian Toolbox. You can watch it here. 

Check out .Net Foundation's interview with our own Bill Wagner where he talks about Humanitarian Toolbox. You can read it over on their website. 

TDev.org's Taco Ditiecher shares his experiences volunteering on an HTBox project. You can read about it here.

Richard Campbell and Bill Wagner talk about C# 6 and Humanitarian Toolbox on today's .Net Rocks! show. You can listen to it here. 

Today's entry on Microsoft's Disaster Response Blog featured Grace Hopper Open Source Day and included Humanitarian Toolbox's involvement at the "Code-a-thon for Humanity" workshop. You can read a review of the event here.

Steven Hoober writes on working at GiveCamp, the hackathon collaboration between Humanitarian Toolbox and That Conference! You can read his post here. 

On August 9th and 10th, the Humanitarian Toolbox will be the focus of the Midwest GiveCamp at That Conference.  We will be working on multiple projects to help forward our cause of building and maintaining software solutions that will grow the speed and scale at which support can be delivered to those impacted by disasters.

If you are going to be at That Conference we hope to see you over the weekend to help build the future of disaster response!

Tony Surma and Jeff Seagard will present the latest information on building cross platform apps that work when connections and other failures occur at the August 7th Chicago .NET Develoepers meetup at West Monroe Partners.  The talk will discusses lessons from disaster response and Humanitarian Toolbox that can be used to make any application work better in day to day and disaster situations.

Information on the meetup can be found here.

Technology and Friends has interviewed our own Bill Wagner and Tony Surma on Humanitarian Toolbox. You can read the interview here. 

Tony Surma and Jeff Seagard will present on building cross platform apps that work when connections and other failures occur at SelfConference in Detroit on May 30th, 2014.  The talk will discusses lessons from disaster response and Humanitarian Toolbox that can be used to make any application work better in day to day situations.

The conference schedule can be found here.

The Microsoft Disaster Response team discusses Humanitarian Toolbox and our approach to crowdsourcing with Visual Studio Online on their blog.

You can read the post here.

HUMANITARIAN TOOLBOX BEGINS TESTING OF CRISIS CHECKIN APPLICATION

Volunteer developers build an application to help disaster relief professionals save lives

March 13, 2014 – Seattle, WA -- Humanitarian Toolbox today announced that one of its applications, the Crisis Checkin Application, is ready for beta test with disaster relief professionals.

The Crisis CheckIn Application is a system for automatically keeping track of who is responding to a particular emergency and automatically creating a "contact list"/"phone book" of those that are there. The service provides the location of the responder as well as their particular skillset. The Crisis CheckIn Application was inspired by Andrej Verity, seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypA9Iza5OFg.

Development of the Crisis CheckIn Application took place at hackathons across the US and Canada, occasionally in conjunction with other conferences, including DevIntersection, ThatConference and StarWest. While the requirements were provided by disaster relief professionals like Andrej Verity, the service itself is built entirely by volunteers.

“The energy of hackathons is palpable,” said Bill Wagner, president of Humanitarian Toolbox and leader of the Crisis CheckIn Service project. “Developers and testers are really excited to be part of a project that can save lives. Even when the hackathon is over, the volunteers participate on their own time, continuing to add and test code from home. That’s the power of an open source project – the contributions continue all year round.”

The Humanitarian Toolbox, an ongoing collaboration of volunteers with technology expertise, has leveraged the best of commercial software development methodologies to combine open source and crowd source development with a single goal: to deliver technology solutions for use in disaster response. The HTBox connects generosity and skills to the needs of response organizations to build and maintain rapidly deployable open source solutions and tools for disaster response – at no cost. 

Humanitarian Toolbox dicusses the tools we use to build disaster relief software. You can read the case study here.

Microsoft MVPs Bill Wagner and Richard Camppbell discuss the Humanitarian Toolbox, and the invovlement from MVPs around the world to help us build apps for disaster relief.

Watch the video here.

At MonkeySpace 2013, Tony Surma & Jeff Seagard presented on how to build better, more responsible apps with lessons learned from disaster response.

The session recording is now available here.

Tony Surma discusses Humanitarian Tooblox and the Microsoft MVP communitiy's involvement. in this video.

Tony discusses design constraints for disaster applications on this episode of The Tablet Show.

Humanitarian Toolbox's hackathon collaboration with Emergency 2.0 wiki and Humanity Road was announced on their blog post today. You can check it out here.

In this video, Bill Wagner discusses the community involvement in the development of Humanitarian Toolbox applications.  Watch the video here.

In this Xconomy interview, Bill Wagner discusses the formation of Humanitarian Toolbox, and its upcoming activities. Read the full interview here.

Humanitarian Toolbox's session at DevTeach 2013 is the subject of Telerik's blog post today. You can check it out here. 

In this interview, Tony Surma discusses the Humanitarian Toolbox and design issues around disaster relief software.

Listen to the show here.