Welcome to the Evacuteer project. Evacuteer is a non-profit specializing in community-assisted evacuations of the New Orleans area.

Evacuteer works year-round to recruit and train volunteers to assist multiple governmental agencies in the event of a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans.

The current tech stack for Evacuteer consists of a CiviCRM instance and a lot of manual labor synchronizing spreadsheets, text messages, and other documents. The Evacuteer project exists to introduce more integrated technology to both the fair-weather and evacuation-time practices at Evacuteer.

The project was initially started as a project to get computer science students from Dillard University hands-on experience designing and developing large software projects while also allowing them to contribute back to their communities.

The long-term vision is to provide Evacuteer and the citizens of New Orleans a technical solution for evacuation preparedness and execution.

In practice, this means that we will support the staff of Evacuteer by:

• Synchronizing with their existing CiviCRM database perpetually or until the CivicCRM instance is no longer necessary
• Proving a platform for tracking volunteer preferences, education timelines, and other data necessary to ensure that a well-prepared set of volunteers is able to be dispatched as-needed to Evacuspots across the New Orleans metro.
• Providing a platform for Evacuteer staff to communicate with volunteers in the case of an emergency
• Providing a platform for Evacuteer staff to communicate with the public in the case of an emergency

We will support the Evacuteer volunteers by:

• Providing a platform where volunteers can keep their contact information and preferences up to date
• Providing a platform where volunteers can know what is needed of them in the case of an emergency or in the case of quiet-time training

We will also provide support to New Orleans residents and visitors by:

• Providing a platform for the public to understand the evacuation process and to know where to go and when to be evacuated

Obviously this is no small project. There are countless features that could be added and solutions that could be implemented. For the technical details of the current vision, check out the tech stack overview