AA's DC Notes

Contents 1 Things to do 1.1 MERGE VMOSS and Sahanana 1.2 mod_rewrite for pretty URLs 1.3 VM Changes

Things to do

MERGE VMOSS and Sahanana

• NIMS training: http://training.fema.gov - any single 200-level class.
• Wiki Module
• Grants
  • Track volunteers' time against
  • Aid organizations fill out forms for which volunteers did what when; link that back to a grant.
• Over time period, measure:
  • lives saved
  • damage caused
  • hours spent per type of damage
• Damaged equipment expenses
• Modify from IncidentCommander.net to use as Sahana training exercise
• Customizable installation
• Date widget: specify expected format; probably use strtotime()?
• Inventory management
• LLIS.gov - explore
• Synchro - use mesh networking (OLPC)? Need a way to check if syncs are required. Hash database?
• SOA - Service-Oriented Architecture
• shelter management
• Architecture
  • Action sequence
  • Form handlers
  • Special Files Mod
  • Special Functions
  • Function overrides (?)
  • Conf. vars
  • Security
  • Database schma
  • Setup script
• CVS - hosted by SF
• VM: customize menu using conf values
• use _t() for localization
• Camera input for registration/ID/ printing IDs
• barcodes for IDs
• tab autocomplete with suggestion bubbles (text fields)

mod_rewrite for pretty URLs

• currently only using dbcreate.sql; any need for setup.inc?
• Stress/Vulnerability testing
• Ability to create reports/audits on functionality and data being collected
  • i.e. this tool has reunited x number of people with their families
  • (not just tracking 1 incident, but software's success over many)
• Testing
• Statistics
• Security
• testing required for some deployments
• requirements
  • how many concurrent users? e.g. New York had 2500 concurrent users.
  • 125 transactions/sec.
• Social engineering: educate users.
• Don't give information to people you don't know.
• embrace change
• focus on what is important; what people need
• crisis tools not used often; maybe only in exercises
• standards compliance - business standards as well.

VM Changes

• insert all standard locations in locations table
• opt_location_type: inserted 0 for now
• don't use other code related.
• no structural changes (?)
• location uid changed to china's standard 6-digit code
• prev consisted of city, country
• didn't use interface; inserted into db directly
• no changes to location library
• no schema changes
• admin >>