Folks, I seem to vaguely recall that such a thing exists and was wondering if I could... count on you all to help me locate it. I am looking for something that I would describe as an open source emergency or crisis "management" platform. Something that would enable volunteers, resources, locations to be managed efficiently in a (hopefully) single online platform that can be self-hosted with as meager resources as possible or alternatively, if such a thing exists, hosted by some third party. Something that would enable organizations also to register themselves in a CRM kind of capability, but one that ideally would have as many features as possible that would come in handy under extreme circumstances, earthquakes, floods, and the like. I am sure that somebody must have come up with some solution enabling a core set of features such as I am describing, or that at least best practices must exist for this sort of software. Any pointers are appreciated.
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In one lesson [1] such system seems to be discussed.<p>Also look at the list at 0:29 in <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UseJfcmG3po&list=PLwJ2VKmefmxpUJEGB1ff6yUZ5Zd7Gegn2&index=68&pp=iAQB" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UseJfcmG3po&list=PLwJ2VKmefmxp...</a><p>[0] <a href="https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwJ2VKmefmxpUJEGB1ff6yUZ5Zd7Gegn2" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwJ2VKmefmxpUJEGB1ff6yU...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z9cKZEz_Z00&list=PLwJ2VKmefmxpUJEGB1ff6yUZ5Zd7Gegn2&index=50&pp=iAQB" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z9cKZEz_Z00&list=PLwJ2VKmefmxp...</a>
I don't know of anything that's exactly what you're asking for, but there are open source "incident command" / "incident management" packages out there. Not sure if any are actively maintained or up to date or not though.<p>There's some stuff here, but it doesn't look like it's gotten much love lately.<p><a href="https://github.com/hadrsystems">https://github.com/hadrsystems</a>
This post hit me with a wave of nostalgia. Years ago I helped my university deploy and maintain an instance of “UC Ready”, an open source emergency management webapp made by UC Berkeley - which was written in Coldfusion if I remember correctly.<p>Looking on their website now, it sounds like it was ported to Salesforce. Sorry I couldnt be any more help!
One best practice I'm aware of is to make sure no emergency plans rely on something as fragile as a tech platform, as the communication networks that such things depend on are likely to be down.