ImOk

I'm OK! helps you report your status to friends and family after a disaster.

After a disaster, everybody wants to call their friends at the same time, congesting the cell network. The I'm OK! system lets you send one SMS to a server that then gets forwarded to a list of your friends and family via email or other media like social network messages. Using SMS means you're more likely to get through, and you're saving bandwidth for emergency responders.

Current status:

• New users can sign up for an account and list friends they want to contact using our web app (App Engine platform)
• We have an app for Blackberry that lets you say you're OK by pressing one button
• We have a phone number which you can bookmark and use to send an I'm OK! SMS message from any phone

Tasks:

• Add GPS reporting to I'm OK Android
  • Ted
• Collect GPS reports in the morning
• Develop summary map view
  • Trey
• Push PFIF data to Person Finder
  • Trey
  • Status: we got our end working, there seems to be a bug in PF according to aliceb@google.com
• Develop ability to designate subset of email contacts as emergency contacts to receive "need help" message
• Get iPhone app to stable point
  • Jason Brooks
• Get Android app to stable point
  • Ted
• Handle a single user posting OK messages from multiple cell phone numbers
  • Eric
• Push OK messages to Facebook status
• Push OK messages to Twitter
  • Carina
• Develop API for querying organization member status, also event web hooks
• Design a map summary of incoming OK messages for emergency responders
• Design an interface for the "I'm not OK" case -- how do we retain simplicity

Community:

• We'd love to meet other folks using SMS or doing status reporting to see if we can join forces