Member resources for Disaster response
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:33 pm
We need a way for members to attach to their membership online somehow a list of resources, skills, equipment, supplies they have to respond to a disaster. Each year we hand out a two page form for members in our Stake to fill out and then get them back. This is a cumbersome task, and hard to take electronic for sorting and use.
The resource list is used by Stake and Ward leaders to find members with resources such as trucks, generators, chainsaws, specialized expertise, professional exppertise, etc when resonding to a disaster or emergency situation.
One could use google docs for this building a form, but that does not make it easy for members to review and update and keep somewhat confidential from the general public. They basically would have to start over each year and enter the info again. There may be some open source tools that could do this but then we have a separate system with member info in it.
What would be nice is a website they could go to, to review, add, update, delete this information on a yearly basis. An email could be sent out to them with a link to remind them.
There might be some open source type solutions we could look at, but what would be best is if it were tied to the members membership record that is available to Stake and Ward leaders (tied to ward membership roster).
Searchable online.
Easily downloaded to laptop computer/iphone etc for offline use during an emergency response.
Even during this little landslide in Logan which is in our Stake, the city was over extended, and members stepped in to help coordinate volunteers, clean up the homes, streets, yards, and man the shelter with the Red Cross. You have to know who has what skills and it has to be updated on a yearly basis.
During our Stake mock disaster table top, it was quickly learned that the paper resource list does not work.
Any thoughts?
Kevin Reeve
p.s. Many moons ago I did a programming internship at LDS HQ. 17 floor was my home then. Worked on a reporting system for church vehicles world wide. Oh the good old days.
The resource list is used by Stake and Ward leaders to find members with resources such as trucks, generators, chainsaws, specialized expertise, professional exppertise, etc when resonding to a disaster or emergency situation.
One could use google docs for this building a form, but that does not make it easy for members to review and update and keep somewhat confidential from the general public. They basically would have to start over each year and enter the info again. There may be some open source tools that could do this but then we have a separate system with member info in it.
What would be nice is a website they could go to, to review, add, update, delete this information on a yearly basis. An email could be sent out to them with a link to remind them.
There might be some open source type solutions we could look at, but what would be best is if it were tied to the members membership record that is available to Stake and Ward leaders (tied to ward membership roster).
Searchable online.
Easily downloaded to laptop computer/iphone etc for offline use during an emergency response.
Even during this little landslide in Logan which is in our Stake, the city was over extended, and members stepped in to help coordinate volunteers, clean up the homes, streets, yards, and man the shelter with the Red Cross. You have to know who has what skills and it has to be updated on a yearly basis.
During our Stake mock disaster table top, it was quickly learned that the paper resource list does not work.
Any thoughts?
Kevin Reeve
p.s. Many moons ago I did a programming internship at LDS HQ. 17 floor was my home then. Worked on a reporting system for church vehicles world wide. Oh the good old days.