Katrina Shelter -- Listing of Shelter Locations for Hurricane Katrina Victims
Katrina Shelter -- Listing of Shelter Locations for Hurricane Katrina Victims "Welcome. This site provides an unfiltered database of individuals and groups all over the country who can provide temporary shelter for victims of Hurricane Katrina. We are a volunteer organization trying to coordinate the growing number of homes and shelters being opened to people left homeless and hungry by Katrina."
Beyond the good works, open source coding is at work here. Look at how they have done a visual implementation to help people find housing, post-Katrina. They have mapped their "database on to an aggregate map." They have added "the ability to visualize the capacity of the shelter, whether food is available, as well as if the shelter is Red Cross or FEMA approved!"
Having a roof over our heads is a community indicator for the physical world. Places like KatrinaShelter help weave the online home to the offline.
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posted by Nancy White at 10:45 AM
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Portland, Oregon Foodbanks, and shelters already providing regular meals to the homeless, unemployed and poor are going to be overwhelmed. There are going to be some of these facilities which will be specifically geared towards the Katrina Relief effort. A website that urges volunteers to print that information, (provides PDF files), so it can be distributed directly into the community shelters.
1. Contact admins at these Foodbank sources.
2. Work with them to register them at 'this' website, develop the GUI based on their needs.
3. Develop a database for them to feed their GUI data into.
4. Report from the database on webpages, and provide PDF that volunteers can print and distribute.
patjack@email.com here in Portland
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