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monalamdeslippe edited this page Oct 18, 2014 · 6 revisions

Humanitarian Coordinator:

  • A Humanitarian Coordinator must be able to view all of the clusters within a disaster.
  • A Humanitarian Coordinator must be able to assign a volunteer as a cluster coordinator.
  • A Humanitarian Coordinator must be able to send a message to individual or all cluster coordinators.
  • A Humanitarian Coordinator must be able to send a message to cluster volunteers.

Cluster Coordinator:

  • A cluster coordinator must be able to view all of the volunteers within their cluster based on a specified date.
  • A cluster coordinator must be able to communicate to all volunteers, subsets of volunteers and individual volunteers.

Volunteers:

  • A volunteer can commit to volunteer in a disaster for a specific time period.

  • Volunteer profile information:

  • Start date must be specified

  • End date can be left open

  • An (expected) arrival date

  • Email address

  • Cell phone number

  • Disaster

  • Skype ID (future)

  • Notes for anything of a priority nature such as medical issue. open question: Is this relevant?

  • Volunteers will identify by cluster when they register. That is their area of expertise. It's very unlikely that volunteers will change clusters.

  • open question: Can a volunteer commit for multiple disasters/clusters simultaneously? i.e. he is available for several clusters/disaster but later appointed to one of them

  • open question: Is it required to specify the end date? what if the volunteer is available until further notice?

Disaster:

A disaster is identified by a disaster number (DISNO), name, start date and whether it is active.

  • the first two digits of the DISNO indicate the fiscal year in which the event occurred;
  • the last three digits are sequence numbers within the fiscal year - Numbers 001 through 100 are assigned to declared disasters and numbers 101 through 999 to undeclared disasters. Another mean of identifying disasters is Glide.
  • open question Is the disaster name be unique? (this is the current implementation)
  • open question What uniquely identifies a disaster? (Is it a DisNo/Glide described above?) [Bill Wagner] Good question, so far we'd like to have a unique 'friendly' name for volunteers'. [moranlf] the friendly name in our system can be unique, but I still suggest that we use some attribute that NGOs are currently familiar with and use it to identify disasters.
  • open question The term 'disaster site' was mentioned. is there any relation between a 'site' and a 'disaster' (e.g multiple sites can be opened per disaster), or do they mean the same ?

Communication:

  • Cluster coordinators must be able to send communication to volunteers.
  • Volunteers must be able to send communication to cluster coordinators.
  • Cluster coordinators must be able to choose one of the following recipient groups:
  • on-site volunteers
  • remote/off-site volunteers
  • all volunteers
  • Users must be able to specify the following:
  • communication type: email (default) or SMS
  • the volunteer active(?) date
  • action - choose from a drop list - eg. help, bring equipment
  • location - open text field (possibly a drop list?)
  • Details - open text field