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Thu, 30 Dec 2004
Sanjiva Weerawarana on disaster management software
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Sanjiva is posting again, from Sri Lanka. He's found a way to put his computing skills to good use. He's been talking to the CIO of FEMA, and people at IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco.
The one thing that has become clear today is that we have a tremendous information management problem in our hands.
What's incredible is that there doesn't appear to be software for this stuff and all these agencies which deal with disasters regularly don't have all this shit automated. Incredible. Well, we're going to build our stuff (openly/freely) and we'll be happy to share it with the other affected countries or anyone else.
there is software.. and an asf member berin loritsch is working on it (for his dayjob :)
Posted by peter royal at Thu Dec 30 18:31:53 2004
Posted by peter royal at Thu Dec 30 18:31:53 2004
Isn't it ironic that mission critical software is going to be written with the so-called soft languages? Disaster management software is going to be written with pliant supple languages like PHP, because it'll take too long to write with EJBs?
Posted by Chui at Thu Dec 30 21:05:45 2004
Posted by Chui at Thu Dec 30 21:05:45 2004
Chui,
I'm not sure why you find this ironic. PHP can handle the kind of scalablity they need. And in this case development time is of the essence.
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri Dec 31 14:57:20 2004
I'm not sure why you find this ironic. PHP can handle the kind of scalablity they need. And in this case development time is of the essence.
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri Dec 31 14:57:20 2004
Web based software for volunteer and donation management is available already and was used heavily during the '04 hurricane season to recruit and process resources, needs, etc.
HECK, IT'S EVEN PROGRAMMED IN XML COMPLIANT PHP GUYS!
Check out http://disasterhelp.net and http://samaritan.com.
- Todd
Posted by Todd McMullin at Fri Apr 15 11:06:16 2005
HECK, IT'S EVEN PROGRAMMED IN XML COMPLIANT PHP GUYS!
Check out http://disasterhelp.net and http://samaritan.com.
- Todd
Posted by Todd McMullin at Fri Apr 15 11:06:16 2005
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