[Katrina-IT-Volunteers] Friday night notes

[Dale Thompsom]

In case anyone needs to refer to it, the Free-Net affiliated public
computer sites (including the libraries) are on a map with a list of
details at:

http://www.austinfree.net/locations/index.html

There are special computer areas for children in the libraries called
Wired For Youth Centers with special librarians (of course, we think
they're all special) at: 

http://www.wiredforyouth.com/

Dale



  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Glenn Meter"
  To: katrina-it-volunteers at soaustin.net
  Subject: [Katrina-IT-Volunteers] Friday night notes
  Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:30:21 -0500



  * The center is noticeably less crowded than when I was last at the
  Center, on Wed night. This is good. More folks were playing games
  this evening, and we had some times when a bunch of machines were
  unattended. We may need to ramp down the staffing a bit. But, if
  more evacuees come in this could change....

  *** One of the Red Cross folks told me this evening that when folks
  call into the Center to find loved ones, for privacy/safety
  reasons they can't say whether a person is in the shelter or not.
  So, it means that it's especially important for us to setup
  voicemail and/or e-mail for folks trying to locate and be located
  by loved ones. We've been doing this anyway, but it's important.
  Once the information's in the Red Cross site you can't update it.

  * It would be good to start advertising Free-Net to the evacuees. I
  had a gentleman ask me this evening where the libraries were
  around town so that he could check his e-mail after he moved into
  an apartment. Glad I checked out the Free-Net site today so I
  could point him in the right direction.

  * In case it hasn't been covered before on the list, there's a
  built- in Mail program on the public machines. It's not uncommon
  for folks to get into the Mail program instead of web mail. If you
  see it happening, just redirect them. We can't pull the Mail
  program from the machines since they're solid-state.

  Glenn

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