[vox] Fwd: Camp Fire Pet Lost/Found data and web help needed

[Timothy D Thatcher]

LUGOD members and friends,

I received this message earlier this week and have been in contact
with Alan, who is looking for some help building a site to reconnect
people with lost pets after the fires up north. If you're interested
in helping out, please contact Alan to hopefully get this project
moving with a web presence ASAP.

Thanks,
Tim

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From: Alan Raetz <agraetz at ucdavis.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:35 AM
Subject: Camp Fire Pet Lost/Found data and web help needed

Hi, I'm volunteering for the Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CampFirePetRescueAndReunification/,
working as a developer and trying to recruit others to help me.

We have an immediate short-term need for help with developing a
mobile-friendly website where people can easily browse lost and found
pets and easily and directly get background information. I have
experience on backend data processing, and have no modern
mobile-friendly web experience, so this is a critical need.

Another project example: set up a website that has web form pages to
directly log lost and found pets and photos (mobile-friendly) such
that they are automatically imported into a google sheet. Right now
volunteers are entering this data from multiple sources by hand.

We'd like all of this done yesterday, as they say. There is an army of
volunteers transferring and reviewing lost and found pet listings from
websites and social media as well as direct field reports, onto google
spreadsheets, with photos posted on a google drive. See links here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/CampFirePetRescueAndReunification/permalink/283113869004373/

If you want to take a shot at building a prototype for some of these
tasks independently, go for it, I can work with you. There are
multiple projects and we are open to all ideas on how to address the
issue we have. I can get you download access to the spreadsheets and
the photos are public access. Right now we are trying to develop
quick-and-dirty solutions to just get resources up asap, not create a
long-term solution (but that is another project in itself if you are
interested in that); but of course a fast, clean implementation that
could be used later would be ideal.

The other web interface we are using is the arcgis.com (we are using
it as an interface for registering lost pets) GIS server:
http://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=370a0402a3a040cbafa8e45645bf3716&extent=-13549565.5065%2C4820343.749%2C-13519755.0654%2C4838268.2322%2C102100

So if you have interest in that API or GIS applications, there is
plenty to do on that side. We are in contact with Amber Wittner, who
created that page.

Please email me directly if you can help, and feel free to relay this
call for help to others in your group, or to anyone you think is
appropriate.

Thanks,

-Alan Raetz
alanraetz at gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CampFirePetRescueAndReunification/
(this work not sponsored by UC Davis)