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Where’s Waldo? The People Locator Project

Where’s Waldo? The People Locator Project. Tom O’Brien UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley is proximate to the Hayward fault and the Berkeley/Oakland hills -- site of the 1991 Oakland firestorm (watch out Waldo?).

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Where’s Waldo? The People Locator Project

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  1. Where’s Waldo?The People Locator Project Tom O’Brien UC Berkeley

  2. UC Berkeley is proximate to the Hayward fault and the Berkeley/Oakland hills -- site of the 1991 Oakland firestorm (watch out Waldo?). Limited ability to provide information to family members (estimated hold time for information about Waldo is 42 hours). Difficulty determining status reports’ authenticity (are you really Waldo?). Difficulty resolving name ambiguity (which Waldo were you looking for?).

  3. Next Steps • Recently awarded FEMA grant to produce Open Source version (Java/MySQL) • Possible enhancements: • Email notifications to “subscribed” viewers • “Shared Secret” to facilitate private communication • Geo-spatial data (e.g. last known/probable location) • Customized status report options for emergency scenarios (e.g. pandemic)

  4. The UC Berkeley People Locator was designed by: Operational contact: Tom Klatt (Office of Emergency Preparedness) Technical contact: Nina Hundley (Business Resumption) Application Developer: Tom O'Brien (Student Affairs) Jon Conhaim (e-Berkeley) Marie Felde (Public Affairs) Tim Heidinger (Student Affairs) Steve McConnell (Public Affairs) Sarah Nathe (Disaster Resistant University Initiative) David Scronce (Human Resources) Walter Wong (Office of the Registrar) The teams responsible for the co-location of the hardware and software at the off-site location: Business Resumption: Nina Hundley CalNet (LDAP&Kerberos): Jann Fong, Rob Chevalier, Lucas Rockwell, Mike Friedman Windows IIS application server: Mike Blasingame, Michael Leefers Database: Karen Kato, Paul Rivers UNIX server: Ann Dobson, Jeff Makaiwi And, of course, Waldo….

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