Title: Re: [xml-dev] [OT] Hurricane IT Help






I've been thinking back to 
the numerous times I've been to New Orleans over the past 19 years (church music 
convention when I was 19, 2 Mardi Gras, visiting a former girlfriend, 
conferences, etc.). Here I am writing from a cushy office in downtown Washington 
DC, where I drove in my cushy car from my cushy uptown DC neighborhood....and 
it's almost unfathomable to me to see that what is taking place there now (from 
all aspects - health, hunger, social disorder, etc.) is happening in the same 
country in which I live.
 
God bless all those affected by this 
terrible tragedy.
 
Joe



From: Alan Gutierrez 
[mailto:alan-xml-dev@e...]
Sent: Fri 9/2/2005 12:10 
AM
To: Betty Harvey
Cc: XML Developers 
List
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] [OT] Hurricane IT 
Help



* Betty Harvey <harvey@e...> [2005-09-01 
23:27]:
>
> Alan:
>
> Anything I can do to help let me 
know.  I have family in Slidell and
> Picayune that "THANK GOD" will 
be in my home tomorrow! Phones and cell
> phones failed but text messages 
did work.  Homes and jobs lost but
> thankfully no loss of life - we 
are some of the fortunate ones! 
>
> I have been reading http://www.nola.com/forums/sttamtownhall/index.ssf/
> 
for information. 
>
> There isn't much that we can do for 
information for people left in the
> affected area.  They are cut off 
- no phones, no radio, no TV.  The one
> time I did get through to my 
brother-in-law and tried to tell him about
> the situation in New Orleans 
(he worked at Tulane University Hospital)
> he didn't believe me - thought 
I was exagerating.  I am really worried
> about his reaction when he 
gets to a hotel tonight and sees CNN news!

    People are 
holed up, but some information is still getting
    through. 
Last I checked, text messaging was working.

> However, for those who 
evacuated and left that is where the help can
> come from but I don't know 
where to start to help answer all the
> questions they may 
have:

    I'm going to sound really flip in my soultions, 
I know you guys
    are thurough, but here's what I'm working 
on.

> 1.  I have a loved one - I haven't heard from them? What 
happened to
>     my 
neighbor?
   
    http://www.familymessages.org/index.php

    
We are talking about new features, designing them, and 
knocking
    them out, right here:

    
http://thinknola.com/wiki/index.php?title=Family_Messages#Adding_Tags

    
You can help Dan Chaney by giving him ideas on how to 
implement
    that new tagging feature. I think it is a key 
feature for this
    application.

> 2.  What 
happened to my home? Pictures of specific neighborhoods 
are
>     coveted.  My brother-in-law will have 
pictures of his house in
>     Eagle Point in Slidell 
tomorrow.  Reading The Times Picayune 
forums,
>     pictures of neighborhoods of people who 
can't get home are coveted.

    I'm using Wiki for that, 
but I need more editors. It's a loose
    format that allows 
people to gather information based on block,
    aparatment 
complex, neighborhood, church, business, etc.

    http://thinknola.com/wiki/


> 
3.  Help me with my pet.  I have read where people left their 
pets
>     behind and are looking for someone to 
breakin and feed them - they
>     thought they would 
be gone overnight.

    That's a new one. There's a think 
called Noah's Ark.

> If they need ice, water, food they can't get to 
the internet.  I heard
> that a temporary cell tower was being 
installed in Mandeville but it isn't
> working yet.  I haven't been 
able to reach phones in Baton Rouge, Slidell,
> Picayune, Hattiesburg or 
Tylertown.

    I think there's an information crsis. There 
is a lot of
    information out there, but it is poorly 
organized.

    I'm gather information about the Xavier 
exacuation. People are
    starting to count on it, so I can't 
stop, but I can't take on
    any more info-gathering 
tasks.

    If you watch the forums, the candidates for a 
Wiki page are
    OBVIOUS, but there's only one of 
me.

    That just became a Wiki 
entry.

    http://thinknola.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wiki_Editors#What_to_Wiki

--
Alan 
Gutierrez - alan@e...
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