IT Services
On the hardware side, the open security camera project would ultimately not exist if there were suitable hardware kits readily available. But, the physical device that will act as a camera had to be created. However, to the extent possible, our goal was to avoid starting from scratch. In this post, I describe the components selected and the reasoning behind it.
Read more “Scoping hardware options”
IT Services
Can it really be true, that no-one, on a planet of almost 8 billion people, has successfully built a business around creating open security cameras? Even with very basic requirements? In this article, I outline the security camera project’s needs and ponder on the state of business.
Read more “MVP’s for the camera and existing alternatives”
IT Services
At Molnix, we recently faced the need to equip an area with security cameras. All of our sites up until now are managed by our providers, including security cameras. However, this new area does not have any. Before we start using the new area, we need our own security camera system. This is the start of an article series, where I describe our journey to having our own, open and trustable security camera system.
Read more “The open security camera project”
Best Practices
Picture a crisis where you need to choose, alert and mobilize the right responders, keep abreast the latest news happening in the disaster area and create new projects for the mission as information trickles in.
Do you have the right tools in place for quickly and effectively doing all of this? Read more “The Latest Best Practices for HR in Disaster Response”
Best Practices
Before founding Molnix in 2014, I worked as Disaster Management Delegate at the Finnish Red Cross. As part of those duties, I contributed to the creation of an emergency response mechanism called the 10K Camp. The 10K camp is a scalable and rapidly deployable emergency shelter that covers camp materials, staff and services for ten thousand people and beyond. This 10K Camp mechanism is also in used in cooperation with other actors, and one prominent partner is the Philippine Red Cross. In this capacity, I have had the honor of working with the Philippine Red Cross even after starting Molnix, including working on the contingency plan. In this article, I explore the aspects of external staff activities required to make it all work. Read more “Earthquake preparedness in the Philippine context”
Startup
We have new brilliant minds on board on the core team to help us grow further! Jaakko has been with us for a good while and is contributing new positive influences to the team. Meanwhile, Emre moved from Turkey to join us more recently. The newest member on the team is Kari. This is their introduction. Read more “Molnix’ team grows”
Startup
This weekend is promising for the humanitarian world. Starting today, a hackathon called Pajathon is organized in Joensuu, Finland. Teams will be having fun and competing to create the best next humanitarian solution. Naturally, Molnix is there!
IT Services
Following our very recent contribution of shell API examples to ISPConfig, the effort quickly grew into a full-blown command line tool for ISPConfig. I noticed the functionality we needed and the script we were building were a good fit for creating a proper CLI. With many other users in the community having expressed similar needs, I realized this was a good moment to contribute. The tool was merged to ISPConfig yesterday. We are currently asking for feedback on the tool’s current state and inviting more developers to contribute further functions. Read more “ISPConfig shell CLI by Molnix”
IT Services
In this blog post, I share a contribution to ISPConfig. We are happy users of ISPConfig and have extended its use to some of our bash scripts. Since there were no readily examples on shell and curl usage out there, we decided to create our own. Read more “ISPConfig bash CLI script for REST API”
Best Practices
The #MeToo campaign and the recent news on sexual misconduct in different organizations opened the lid on a reality that is not often spoken about in the aid community.
It has meant a hit to the reputation and donations to the humanitarian sector and a wake up call to address the failings. In the meantime, there are also many good ideas on how to remedy the situation.
As Molnix is part of this community, the circumstances drives us to ask: How can we help our customers, with our technology, prevent sexual misconduct in deployed staff and at all levels of the organization? Read more “How to Prevent Sexual Misconduct in Disaster Deployed Staff”