Join the Katrina PeopleFinder Project

Donated money? Please donate a little time. Join the Katrina PeopleFinder Project.

I've been working put this together this week and now we need more help. Most of the shelters are also putting up "lost and found" bulletin boards and we need people who can get names from those boards. Here is the spiel - pass it on:

It's easy. All you need is an internet connection and the ability to copy data into a form.

http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderVolun...

After Katrina many friends and family members have been separated and left with no clear way to find each other. Hundreds of internet web sites are gathering hundreds, and probably thousands, of entries about missing persons or persons who want to let others know they’re okay.

The problem is: the data on these sites has no particular form or structure. So it's almost impossible for people to search or match things up. Plus there are dozens of sites - making it hard for a person seeking lost loved ones to search them all.

The Katrina PeopleFinder Project NEEDS YOUR HELP to enter data about missing and found people from various online sources. We’re requesting as little as an hour of your time. All you need to do is help read unstructured posts about missing or found persons, and then add the relevant data to a database through a simple online form.

To get started please click here:

http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderVolun...

Questions? Email katrina-people (at) activist-tech.org

Thanks!!!
The Katrina PeopleFinder Team

We really need a LOT of people to give just a little time.

at the Hurricane Katrina Timeline website located at http://katrinatimeline.org/

for anyone with questions about the project.
http://socialsource.blogspot.com/

We also need people to reach out to other websites and blogs and ask them to put up a button/link back to the project.
Info:
http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderMarketingLists

Buttons by a volunteer at:
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2005/09/katrina_data_pr.html