I love Casey’s booth babe photo series from PDC!! Tammy and Cleo from CoDe Magazine crack me up!

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Excellent news from JSawyer

If you are going to the PDC, there will be a Birds of a Feather session that will talk about how technology can be used to respond to a disaster like Katrina.  It’s called “Katrina Relief through technology” and will be on Monday, September 12 at 7:00 PM. 

I and some other members of the KatrinaSafe.com team will be attending.  Join us to hear how we used technology to build the KatrinaSafe.com system. 

Hope to see you there!

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Read J Sawyer’s blog and see what they ahve done and are doing. It’s really awesome!!! Nice to have not only the techonology of Microsoft behind them, but also the support of the company.

www.katrinasafe.com

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I just got an awesome email from a member of Vermont.NET saying that he has been given permission by his boss to devote his company time to working on volunteer efforts for Katrina. This in addition to his personal time towards the same.

He is hoping to help out on the KatrinaDataProject – which is attempting to aggregate what is quickly becoming too many places to post and search for information on Katrina survivors.

If you have emailed the KatrinaDataProject folks for volunteering (that’s john at katrinadataproject dot com), John says he has had 50 reponses so far (hooray) and is putting together an email list to respond to everyone more efficiently.

Thea Burger reports on attending the launch of South African website: Women in IT, a Microsoft SA initiative.

There will be a code camp in New Brunswick Canada in mid-October.

Here’s more info from Amanda Murphy’s blog.

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Here are some things from the .NET community that have caught my eye.

Within the .NET community, there are plenty of developers who live in New Orleans. There is even a small .NET user group, GNONUG, run by Manny Dennis, who was an INETA liaison during the time that I was the chair of the related INETA committee.I haven’t heard from him, but I am confident that he, his wife and young child are far away from New Orleans.

Sara Ford at Microsoft is from Mississippi and has been blogging information on the status of family and her town, with a reminder that there are bulletin boards style blogs for relaying information about survivors.

Another Microsoft employee, Bill Steele who is one of the DCC’s ( the folks who present at the MSDN events), is planning to fly his plane to the Gulf Coast to deliver 10,000 MREs. This is coming 3rd hand, but the sources are pretty good.

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Earlier this month, myKB launched “Help for Helpers”, offering their flagship Knowledgebase software free for non profit corps.

One example of a non-profit that has already benefited is the Down Syndrome Network, which is building their knowledgebase here with the help of myKB and hosted on myKB’s website.

For more information, check this press release.

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Carl Franklin has a boy-wonder on staff. In this post, he teases us with the amazing feats this genius can perform, but pretends that shyness is the reason he won’t say the employee’s name. Ha! He just doesn’t want you to steal him. Sounds like a nightmare day of surprises. Some good lessons in this post regarding spyware.

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over to Kate, who has all the info!

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