[Katrina-IT-Volunteers] Notes from Saturday

[Glenn Meter]

* As of 3pm Saturday, the public computers are now where the original  
registration/intake area was located. For folks that haven't  
volunteered yet, it's in Hall 4 on the way to the cafeteria. As of  
today they had less than 1500 people in the shelter. They're going to  
start consolidating rooms, starting with Hall 1 in the south. Hall 4  
to the north will be the last room of evacuees.

* We set up extra tables purposefully along the "corridor" towards  
the cafeteria for crowd control.

* I set up the evacuee that came with his own computer in the corner,  
so that he'd be a little farther from folks who were trying to sleep  
at night if he was playing music.

* The lady in charge of signs came by late this afternoon. I spaced  
on getting her name and contact information. But she'll be in charge  
of moving the big "public computer" sign over as well as putting up a  
big sign asking "have you registered with Red Cross for your family  
to find you?". Might happen monday, I think she's off tomorrow (Sun).

* Things are still quieter than they were a few days ago. But some  
folks are still trying to do FEMA forms online, etc.  The RedCross is  
trying to have everyone sit down with the official FEMA folks before  
they leave the shelter, to make sure that the forms are filled out  
correctly.

Glenn