Recovery 2.0

Callie Jones and Sarai Mitnick (iSchool students) have had their final paper from our open source class published in this month's issue of First Monday ("Open source disaster recovery: case studies of networked collaboration").

It's a great piece that examines the collaborative response by volunteers to the problems of missing people during the Hurricane Katrina and Asian Tsunami disasters. One neat highlight: Ping is called "the Godfater of the PeopleFinder Interchange Format (PFIF)".