Hey Gang,
I thought this online event that is happening this week would be of interest to you all:
Disaster Planning and Recovery Online Event
How your nonprofit organization can plan and prepare for a disaster, before it is too late
May 9-11, TechSoup's Community forums at http://www.techsoup.org/go/disasterplanning
FREE online event ; No registration required
Is IT the only thing you should consider when preparing for a disaster? How should you budget for disasters and planning?
Join us as we discuss these and other questions at TechSoup's three-day Disaster Planning and Recovery online event. At this event, you will learn how to create a disaster-preparedness plan and what you can do to recover from a disaster.
Topics will include:
* Safety issues in disaster preparedness.
* Reducing the risk of a disaster.
* Disaster planning and IT.
* Offline measures you can take to prevent a data disaster.
* Assumptions you can make when devising your plan.
* Budgeting for disasters and disaster planning.
* Disaster recovery.
Event details:
This asynchronous (not live) event will take place in TechSoup's Tech Planning Forum on May 9 to 11. Topics will be discussed via forums posts and will not include a vocal or live-chat component.
If you are interested in participating in our Disaster Planning and Recovery event, please jump in and join the discussion - no registration is required. Each event topic will be discussed in a separate message-board thread; look for the subject-line headers that say "EVENT POST.";
Hosted and moderated by:
Don Cameron is a board member of the Sahana Project, an NPO and humanitarian-aid organization dedicated to the development and support of the Sahana Open Source Disaster Management System (http://www.sahana.lk <http://www.sahana.lk> ), which won the 2006 Free Software Foundation's Award for Social Benefit.
Kevin Lo is an analyst with TechSoup's Healthy and Secure Computing (HSC) (www.techsoup.org/toolkits/hsc <http://www.techsoup.org/toolkits/hsc> ) program, with provides baseline infrastructure guidelines and recommendations for small- and medium-sized nonprofits.
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