A Simple Way to Help with Katrina Efforts
September 3rd, 2005For information, visit:
Katrina PeopleFinder Project - Katrina Help Wiki
What is the Katrina PeopleFinder Project doing?
(1) Creating a technology specification for easily exchanging refugee information. A volunteer effort is working to assist online databases in implementing the specification.
Volunteer here: Organizing dissemination of data standards
(2) Coordinating volunteers that are writing software that takes information from online databases and putting it into a central database provided by http://Salesforce.com Foundation.
Volunteer here: Implementing data exchange from existing sites to central database
(3) Organizing a massively parallel volunteer data entry project to enter refugee data posted to online bullitin boards into a central database by hand.
Volunteer here: Organizing a massively parallel volunteer data entry effort
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