Hello, there are several efforts ongoing to provide technical assistance to the Relief Effort. For a general overview, read David Geilhufe blog here: http://blog.social-source.com We have created a Katrina development list which you can subscribe to if you are reading this from a forwarded email: katrinadev- subscribe@civicspacelabs.org I see several efforts going on. Let me list them in order of priority as I understand them and then you all can correct me. 1)schema/dictionary for missing person data. http://zesty.ca/ katrina/- Lead Ping Yee and Jon Plax 2)Get an RSS standard. http://www.afallstardjs.com/test.xml -Jon Plax 3)Identify data sources: http://del.icio.us/tag/peoplefinder. Volunteers needed to move this list: http://neworleansnetwork.org/ node/22 to the peoplefinder tag. John Lebowsky and Ethan Zuckerman. http://www.omidyar.net/group/katrinarefugee/news/0/ 4)We need data: David NewBerger:thegeekguy@gmail.com and Tony Chang: tony@ponderer.org are working on crawlers. Crawlers should post their efforts here: http://www.omidyar.net/group/katrinarefugee/news/2/ 5)Accomodation matcher. Michael Haggerty is coding away on modifying event finder to help. I have posted a accommodation spec here: http://neworleansnetwork.org/node/29 6)Remotely acquired data can be posted over HTTP POST to the New Orleans Network CiviCRM contact database. Dave Greenberg. http:// neworleansnetwork.org/node/30 7)http://neworleansnetwork.org a Drupal/CivicSpace site with CiviCRM customized as a people finder application. 8)Chris Holland and Josh Kleinpeter are looking for a dedicated crawler that they can point at a list of people sites. If you have a search appliance you can donate some cycles to please contact them. If you can please post to the katrinadev list and let us know what you can do. Cheers, Kieran