VOLUNTEERS NEEDED... USA Memorial website for Terrorist victims and families.
| From: | Alan T. Miller | Date: | Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:36:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | VOLUNTEERS NEEDED... USA Memorial website for Terrorist victims and families. | ||
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Please forgive the off topic announcement I am posting here. However, I
would like to make an appeal to the open source community, in this case the
PEAR and PHPLIB communities, to assist in doing something to honor those who
have tragically lost their lives as a result of the recent terrorist attacks
on the US and help to alleviate some of the pain those families feel and the
rest of us feel.
I thought that it would be appropriate at this time to build a website where
families of the victims can post a photograph or two of their loved ones
along with a few words about those people. The site would serve to not only
help ease the pain for those families but also to give the rest of us a
venue to help deal with the tragedy and make sure that those who have lost
their lives do not go unnoticed.
I have been in contact with a fairly large ISP who may be willing to provide
the server environment for this project, I have considered a few ideas for
domain names, the problem is that the project is too big for me to handle by
myself, and in the interests of timing, I simply need help to pull it off in
a timely manner.
If anyone is interested in helping coordinate and build such a site, please
respond to me personally at amiller@hollywood101.com or, if it is not
innapropriate, here in this mail list.
You might say I chose to contact those here in the PHPLIB and PEAR lists
because I am comfortable working with PEAR components and PHPLIB, and feel
after reading through and taking part in both of these lists for a while, I
know some of you fairly well, and I know there are some very capable people
in this list who like the spirit of open source itself, have a past of
contributing to a good cause.
The web site I have in mind would be simple at first with two main
components. First, a user based system to allow families to log in and
upload their photographs and text. Second, a web based front end to browse
that information in the database. I have programmed some scripts for a site
I use that can handle multiple photograph uploads but probabably need a good
code review.
Anyone interested???