An exposition of projects, tools and resources relevant to the Whole of Society Crises Response (WoSCR) community. The initial Expo has a number of sections:

• COMPOEX Program Tools and Models (Overview, Campaign Planning Tool, Option Exploration Tool, Modeling Tools, Model Library)
• Other PMESII Tools and Programs (Simulex Reference World, Simulex Duality, SEAS-VIS, SecondChina, PMESII Tools Survey edited by Jordan Willcox)
• "Helpful Organizations" - International Emergency and Crisis Response Organizations (ISCRAM, IAEM, MPAT, SAHANA)
• Virtual Worlds Platforms and Organizations (Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds, US Nexus, Second Life, Opensim and Blue Mars)
• Joint Futures Group - Joint Operating Environment (JOE)

VW Platform	Location	URL	Launcher
Second Life	Expo Pavilion	http://slurl.com/secondlife/VCE/128/180/23/ http://tr.im/vceexpo
Second Life	JOE GeoDome	http://slurl.com/secondlife/VCE/50/50/23/

 Expo Tours are available.

The VCE Expo shows a number of displays relevant to the "Whole of Society Crises Response" (WoSCR) community. The "Expo Pavilion" is alongside the area where events and workshops are run for the community in the Virtual Collaboration Environment which comprises a collaborative networking web site and a 3D region in Second Life (and later other virtual worlds).

Part of the aim of the Expo element is to begin to engage with the tool providers, find ways to catalogue and link to their resources inor organization that is relevant to the ciommunity.  The following information is needed for each "booth":

1. a title board including organisation or logo details.
2. a wall poster (or video link).
3. a way to "click for more details" go to a nominated web URL for more information (the URL could be to this page (http://openvce.net) site if necessary).
4. other artefacts to be decided, possibly even live links to the tool, or demonstration items, further posters, etc.

Potential ways to display information include:

• One poster with link to external URL
• multiple posters in an animated "£buiold" sequence with link to external URL
• Movie or streamed video

Contact Skye Gears, the OpenVCE event support avatar, if you woud like to participate or want more information (skye.gears@googlemail.com)

An short audio commentary may also be provided, preferably in MP3 format.  Suggested contents include:

1. allow a few seconds of silence on the start of the recording.
2. introduce yourself and your organizatio , program, project or tool.
3. a sentence to dewscribe the business or applicaton area.
4. introduce the work relevant to WoSCR and PMESII analyst style communities with a few sentences, perhaps referring to how it is antciptate dit can be put into use.
5. say something  on the main content of the poster ()s) using the exact phrase used for the title(s).
6. allow 10 seconds of silence on the end of the recording.