Animal Finder Coordination

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The goal of this page is to provide a high-level view of the status and activities for the various projects under the Animal Finder Project umbrella.

Table of contents
1 Project Tracks
2 Human Resources
3 Status Updates

3.1 Week Beginning 2005-09-19
3.2 Status Archives

4 High-Level Issues Log

4.1 Open Issues
4.2 Resolved Issues

5 Major Decisions
6 Meetings
7 Community Resources
8 Animal Finder Directory

Project Tracks

There are four main efforts going on. To get involved, visit each project page for more information.

Related Projects:

  • [RData (http://www.katrinahelp.info/rdata)] -- while katrinalist.net leverages salesforce.com technology, the RData team is developing an open source solution


Human Resources

Please add more information about your specific roles and your contact information.

PeopleFinderVolunteer

  • Jon Lebkowsky

PeopleFinderTech

PFIF spec leaders

  • Ka-Ping Yee (ping [at] zesty ca)
  • Josh Kleinpeter (kleinpeterj [at] corp.earthlink.net)
  • Jon Plax (salesforce.com)

Scraping Effort Leader

  • Zack Rosen <zack at civicspacelabs.org>

PFIF implementation coordinator:

  • Zack Rosen <zack at civicspacelabs.org

katrinasafe contacts

  • Scott Emigh
  • Jim Carroll

ShelterFinder

Team Members

  • Judith Barnett - jmbarnett at gmail dot com
  • Kieran Lal kieran at civicspacelabs dot org
  • Anand Madhvani - Technical Lead - website, database and usability - anand at dosima dot org
  • Paola Di Maio - planning and resources
  • Josh Knauer - data gathering - knauer at maya dot com
  • Wendy Edwards - other duties as assigned - mrscake at gmail dot com

Coordinators of ShelterFinder Volunteers

  • Emma Cox
  • Anna Khasin

Information Mavens

  • Sarah - Houston Shelters
  • Carla
  • Anna Boroughs - Western States


PeopleFinderOutreach

  • Andrew Hoppin andrew AT civicspacelabs dot org
  • Liza Sabater blogdiva AT-culturekitchen com
  • Marty Kearns kearns AT-greenmediatoolshed org
  • Sue Cline cline.sue AT gmail dot com

Program Management

  • David Geilhufe
  • Steve Wright
  • Steve Fisher
  • Brian Eggert
  • Jon Lebkowsky (project greybeard)


Status Updates

This section should only include the status of high-level tasks. More granular tasks and assignments should continue to be managed through corresponding project wikis.

Week Beginning 2005-09-19

PeopleFinderVolunteer

  • identify resource with salesforce.com knowledge to provide technical support for volunteers

PeopleFinderTech

  • establish Rita search site
  • determine technology strategy for moving forwad


ShelterFinder

  • deploy to live server
  • ShelterFinder and PeopleFinder interoperability

PeopleFinderOutreach

  • Proactive marketing for Rita site

Program Management

  • develop funding plan

Status Archives


High-Level Issues Log

Open Issues

PeopleFinderVolunteer

  • n/a

PeopleFinderTech

  • Next steps are unclear: who will develop new features? on which platform? in which order of priority?
  • How should duplicates be handled?

ShelterFinder

  • n/a

PeopleFinderOutreach

  • Need clear and consistent messaging regarding various aspects of this project including:
    • which site to use for searching evacuees
    • which site to use for entering new data
    • is this project working, success stories


Program Management

  • n/a


Resolved Issues

  • n/a


Major Decisions

  • regarding search and data entry interfaces: Until katrinasafe gets up and running, 1) use katrinalist.net for searching data and distribute HTML form from katrinalist.net to other sites so that they can search katrinalist.net 2) use data entry forms on katrinalist.net. After katrinasafe is up and running, 1) decision on search interfaces will be made at that time. 2) use katrinasafe data entry forms. they will provide a client for use by Red Cross shelters, which only covers 20% of the shelters. (I'm not clear on whether we promote the other 80% to use that client too or if they should continue to use katrinalist interfaces)
    • Why: katrinasafe.com development continues to be delayed and we want to make our data accessible now. Once katrinasafe.com is up, they will be the official site and thus all new data entry should occur using their tools.
    • When/Where: Decision was made during: Meeting: 13 Sept 2005
    • Who: Recommended by David, decided by meeting attendees
    • Notes: Some aspects of this decision need further clarification (i.e. project strategy once katrinasafe.com is fully active)
  • regarding further development: development should continue in parallel with katrinasafe.com efforts and on an opensource platform.
    • Why: 1) large corporations are not as agile as the opensource community 2) continue effort will improve reaction/setup time in the event of another catastrophe
    • When/Where: Decision was made during: Meeting: 13 Sept 2005
    • Who: Recommended by David, decided by meeting attendees
    • Notes: A decision on which platform development will continue still needs to be determined. topic will be discussed during: Meeting: 15 Sept 2005
  • regarding security: access to outbound data (including both CSV exports and PFIF feed) should be authorized.
    • Why: To introduce obstacles for folks who want the data for malicious purposes
    • When/Where: Decision was made during: Meeting: 13 Sept 2005
    • Who: Recommend by Kieran (?), decided by meeting attendees
    • Notes: access is protected via a password-protected wiki page (thanks to Zack)


Meetings

list all meetings


Community Resources

Information Sites

Search Sites

Discussions

  • katrinadev (at) civicspacelabs.org - list created for development efforts and includes most of the general discussions.
    • To join, send a blank email to katrinadev-subscribe (at) civicspacelabs.org.
  • peoplefinder (at) activist-tech.org - list created for PeopleFinderVolunteers - much less traffic.
    • To join, send a blank email to peoplefinder-subscribe (at) activist-tech.org.
  • list archives (http://orwant.com/katrina/) are now online and searchable. This covers messages from 5 September 2005 at 18:00 (6 pm) GMT onward.
  • katrina-appdev (at) zesty dot ca - list created for folks involved in the development of a user-facing application related to the Katrina PeopleFinder Project.
    subscribe (http://zesty.ca/lists/katrina-appdev), archives (http://zesty.ca/pipermail/katrina-appdev/)
  • http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderTech#Discussions


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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