Animal Shelter Finder

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Table of contents
1 How this project started... Katrina PeopleFinder
2 What's happening now? ShelterFinder
3 How can you help? Volunteers Instructions
4 Promote Shelterfinder
5 Hosting plan
6 How to contact ShelterFinder
7 Task List
8 Team Members
9 Time Zones
10 Milestones
11 Animal Finder Directory

How this project started... Katrina PeopleFinder

Dozens of sites were established to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina find their loved ones, and for reporting missing people.

This created difficulties for people trying to locate missing persons, as they needed to search dozens of separate websites, databases and forums.

Realizing this, huge teams of volunteers have collected, copied and scraped information from many separate places into one single, searchable, resource at katrinalist.net (http://www.katrinalist.net)

Katrina PeopleFinder (http://www.katrinalist.net) is a massive, spontaneous open community effort to help the people affected by the disaster, responding to the information needs as they arise.

What's happening now? ShelterFinder

After the immediate aftermath of the hurricanes, there is still a need for clearer information flows to and from shelters.

Longer-term evacuee shelters will need longer-term help and support, but its still not easy to get a clear overview of

  • where shelters are
  • current shelter status
  • how to contact shelters
  • how local volunteers are already helping
  • how new volunteers can also help

How can you help? Volunteers Instructions

Our task list (http://209.237.227.249/search.php?action=search&state=%3D+sort%2Fgroup+%3D&showTasks=CHECKED&showSummary=CHECKED) shows you the current state of our data, broken down by state.

Help us update information for your local shelters. Search for shelters in your area by city or state. Post a message with your fresh information for the shelter, which our data administrators will be alerted to and update.

If you'd like to do more, take responsibility for a state or area, or to help with outreach work or coding, see our Volunteers Instructions (http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/ShelterFinder_Volunteer_Instructions) and get involved.

This is a voluntary, non-commercial project, which shares data with agencies as appropriate, but also safeguards the privacy of contact details. This server has been provided by Technorati (http://www.technorati.com/), and other coordination and support has come from Social Source Foundation (http://socialsource.blogspot.com/), CivicSpace Labs (http://civicspacelabs.org/home/) and Salesforce.com Foundation (http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/)

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Hosting plan

Shelterfinder Hosting

How to contact ShelterFinder

  • Email: shelterfinder at shelterfinder dot org
  • Developers: Please subscribe (mailto:sfdev-subscribe@civicspacelabs.org) to the mailing list and introduce yourself
  • Data Collectors: Please subscribe (mailto:sfdata-subscribe@civicspacelabs.org) to the mailinglist and introduce yourself


Task List

  • Critical Immediate Tasks
    1. Update current shelter information
    2. Recruit more volunteers
    3. Raise awareness and use of this resource
  • Non-Critical Tasks
    1. Update name servers for ShelterFinder.org (Adam at Technorati)
    2. move PHP code-base onto multi-developer OSS CVS basis
  • Longer term tasks
    1. establish contact with agencies for clearer information flows next time
    2. publish xml/rdf schemas


Team Members

sign yourself up, and claim something on the task list


  • Anand Madhvani - Technical Lead - website, database and usability
  • Zacker - Wiki gardener, mailinglist creator
  • Kieran Lal kieran at civicspacelabs dot org
  • Paola Di Maio - shoving around, planning and resources, shelter xml, RDF
  • Josh Knauer - data gathering - knauer at maya dot com
  • Franklin, code
  • Judith Barnett - Recovering from a 70 MPH encounter with a large truck tire. Available for discussion or tech help on a limited basis.
  • Wendy - willing to help with wiki gardening, other duties as assigned
  • User:austinshelter - willing to help with server space, site hosting, mysql database management, web design, online meetings, project management
  • LaDonna Wernersbach - I live in the Dallas, TX area. I am willing to do whatever you need me to do most from my area and for the site. Just let me know.
  • Emma Cox
  • Anna Khasin

Data Gathering Volunteers

  • Sarah - Houston Shelters
  • Carla
  • Anna Boroughs - Western States
  • Ruth - searching recent news articles for all states;

our thanks to Chris Houser (http://bluweb.com/us/chouser/gmapez/) for Google maps code

Time Zones

Please keep in mind that some of us are in very different time zones.

  • Anand - London, UK - will be offline for some of 1-3rd Oct - Anand 16:05, 30 Sep 2005 (EDT)
  • Paola - Live on yim megavegasky +7 gmt
  • LaDonna - Live near Dallas, TX. Can be reached by e-mail easiest but on AOL & Yahoo as hpladonna often.


Milestones

  • Current live data:
1100 records gathered and entered so far.
1260 - Anand 16:54, 15 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Animal Finder Directory

  1. Animal Rescue Resources Wiki in use by the public
  2. Animal Finder Project Wiki in development
    1. Animal Finder Assignments ++
    2. Animal Finder Contributors Pages ++
    3. Animal Finder Coordination ++ Provides a high-level view of the status and activities for the various projects under the Animal Finder Project umbrella
    4. Animal Finder Data Entry Tips ++
    5. Animal Finder Funding Plan ++ A plan to explain the value of this project and pursue funding to build out these tools and services.
    6. Animal Finder Future Developments
    7. Animal Finder Future Users Page
    8. Animal Finder Interchange Format or AFIF
    9. Animal Finder Mission ++
    10. Animal Finder Outreach ++ Outreach/marketing and press information about the project
    11. Animal Finder Outreach Lists ++
    12. Animal Finder Privacy Statement ++
    13. Animal Finder Task List ++
    14. Animal Finder Tech ++ automate data interchange between animal shelter databases
    15. Animal Finder Tech Structured Data Sets
    16. Animal Finder Volunteer ++ volunteer effort to input unstructured data by hand
    17. Animal Finder Volunteer Instructions ++
    18. Animal Shelter Finder ++ project gathering shelters and shelter contact info
    19. Animal Shelter Finder Usability Issues ++
    20. Animal Shelter Local Coordination ++
  3. Animal Finder Database Project Application in development
    1. Animal Finder Database ProjectMain Wiki Page
      1. Animal Finder Database Project Charter
    2. Animal Finder Database Project Forums
      1. Technical Forum (http://groups.google.com/group/katrinadev-petfinder)
      2. General Forum (http://groups.google.com/group/DataTrackers-AF) - for community involvement
  4. Animal Finder Templates:
    1. Animal Finder Directory (this template)
    2. Animal Finder Menu ++
    3. AnimalFinder-stub
    4. Animal Finder Project Participation

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