Open Source Developers Rally to Help Katrina Evacuees

[stingrey]

An international consortium of web designers and developers has joined forces to help those affected by Hurricane Katrina.

With the launch of the Katrina Evacuee Help Center at http://www.disastersearch.org, there is now, for the first time, a "one stop shop" for evacuees, families looking to reunite, and the people working to assist them.

A call for help was posted by Pastor Jay Dearman, who runs the http://www.churchofthe.net site, to the Joomla! Open Source community forum five days ago. (http://www.joomla.org)

"There are people posting desperate messages for help in different places all over the Internet, on news sites, and on missing persons' registers," Pastor Dearman said. "We need a centralized registry and we need it fast."

As a result the international consortium was quickly formed under the leadership of Peter Koch of Switzerland.
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For full press release:
http://www.joomla.org/content/view/116/52/