2 thoughts on “Katrina Metasearch”

1. Have you seen the open source PeopleFinder Project? http://www.aspirationtech.org/node/112

   They are trying to aggregate all the data from the various lost-people-finders that have been set up.

   (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 (techies): http://www.omidyar.net/group/katrinarefugee/news/1/

   (2) Coordinating volunteers that are writing software that takes information from online databases and putting it into a central database provided by Salesforce.com Foundation.
   Volunteer here (software engineers): http://www.omidyar.net/group/katrinarefugee/news/2/

   (3) Organizing a massively parallel volunteer data entry project to enter refugee data posted to online bulletin boards into a central database by hand.
   Volunteer here (regular people): http://www.omidyar.net/group/katrinarefugee/news/0/

   (4) Market the Katrina PeopleFinder Project and recruit volunteers.
   Volunteer here (marketing folks): http://www.omidyar.net/group/katrinarefugee/news/3/

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