Hi all, I'm a fellow PDXer who is in need of some help. I'm the disaster relief coordinator for a nonprofit company out of San Francisco. We have built a wireless IP network in southern Mississippi to help those effected by Hurricane Katrina. We've been working with other groups (www.radioresponse.org, www.cuwireless.net, etc) and the effort has thus far been somewhat haphazard. To date, we have passed almost 40,000 minutes of long distance calling through our Asterisk-based VoIP system and garnered almost $500,000 worth of equipment donations from Intel, Cisco and many others. We are really helping to rebuild the communities in southern MS.
It's time to bring some organization to the party. That's where this group can help out immensely. We need to build up some infrastructure to support our coordination efforts. Right now this includes databases for Volunteers, Equipment and Donations. Basically we need a very small, very tailored CRM & ERP system. The reason we aren't using something like SugarCRM is because we don't want a learning curve that steep. We want people to be able to read one sheet of paper and go to work. Each component of the system will have a public and private side. The private side will have things like deployment scheduling, shipping information, etc. The public side will have generic lists of what's available, who's available where, etc. I know these requirements are vague, so hit me up with the questions. If you want to know more about our project, visit www.aidphone.org or www.inveneo.org. Feel free to give me a call any time as well. If the group is interested in working on the project, I'd love to get together a hackfest somewhere in the next week or two. I'll buy the pizza and beer! Thanks in advance for anything you can offer. Aaron. -- Aaron Huslage www.inveneo.org Cell: 503.860.1634 Office: 415.901.1969 x1245 _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
