Missing person DB
September 8th, 2005I’m sitting here with Jay Dearman who’s Mac’s brother, a minister, and open source geek. He runs ChurchOfThe.Net, and helped get a site called DisasterSearch.org off the ground which he says is the single largest database of missing persons for Katrina victims. For the interested, it’s a custom crafted version of the Mambo CMS.
What’s emerging here, what are the lessons? In an emergency, open source software and unlicensed spectrum get you up and running fast and cheap and it just works.