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(please circulate widely) Hi everyone, For those of you willing to volunteer and photograph evacuees or collect photos of the missing from bulletin boards and websites, here are some instructions. If you have a Flickr.com account, upload photos and tag them either as: katrinamissing for missing persons; katrinafound for found persons that were previously missing; or katrinaokay for all evacuees you encounter so their status can be recorded No matter their status, please include a second tag: katrinapeople. That way we can have a running list of all people encountered. If you are using a cameraphone to take pictures of people at a shelter, or if you don't have a flickr account, you can use these email addresses to upload them. Each email address is set up to include the appropriate tags automatically. For Katrina Missing People: table60said@photos.flickr.com For Katrina Found People (people previously reported missing): shall93effort@photos.flickr.com For Katrina Okay People (ie, people who want to let others know they're okay, includes evacuee you can find in person): wait84little@photos.flickr.com Collecting Photos and Data When taking photos, please try to get a head and shoulder in the best lighting available so people can make out their features in the photograph. When collecting information from them, please try to get this minimal amount for all three categories: Full name, including first, middle, last Gender Age Permanent address Current location Contact information (shelter phone/email/fax, etc) Full names and descriptions of people they are looking for Meanwhile, when collecting information about missing people from bulletin boards, the Web or from personal requests from their friends/family, try to collect additional information: Gender Age Height Weight Physical Description Where were they last scene and when? What were they wearing? Contact information of anyone looking for them Note: If you find children that are separated from parents/guardians, include as much physical descriptive information as you can, as if they were missing. How to access photos The public will be able to access the photos on Flickr.com, and hopefully, other databases. Found People: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/katrinafound/ Missing People: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/katrinamissing/ Okay People: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/katrinaokay/ For those of you who use RSS, each one of these has a corresponding RSS feed: Found People RSS: http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=katrinafound&format=rss_200 Missing People RSS: http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=katrinamissing&format=rss_200 Okay People RSS: http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=katrinaokay&format=rss_200 Lastly, I've set up javascripts that you can insert on any webpage to display the images as they're posted to Flickr. Found People Javascript: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/DJQBXVAAO6.js"><noscript><a href="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/DJQBXVAAO6.html">Click for "Flickr: Katrina Found".</a> By <a href="http://www.feeddigest.com/">Feed Digest</a></noscript></script> Missing People Javascript: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/1SWRBL5DN2.js"><noscript><a href="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/1SWRBL5DN2.html">Click for "Flickr: Katrina Missing".</a> By <a href="http://www.feeddigest.com/">Feed Digest</a></noscript></script> Okay People Javascript: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/BXOZZEMJOY.js"><noscript><a href="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/BXOZZEMJOY.html">Click for "Flickr: Katrina Okay People".</a> By <a href="http://www.feeddigest.com/">Feed Digest</a></noscript></script> I'll set up pages on http://katrina05.blogspot.com to display all of these photo feeds. Hopefully this is enough to get volunteers started. So if you have any type of access to an evacuee shelter and a digital camera, please help out. Special thanks to Lars Torres and Katrin Verclas for helping to get this organized. Thanks, ac -- ----------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com ----------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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