I'm building #umpire, an anonymous registration of #missing and #murdered people, intended to match missing against murdered people's profiles. My spouse is a forensic genetic genealogist who specializes in marginalized communities and found existing sources to be lacking in their ability to search, match, and review. Follow my progress live on Mastodon, here, or over on GitHub: https://github.com/aeveltstra/umpire-web and https://github.com/aeveltstra/umpire-db.
Umpire is being built in vanilla PHP, HTML, JS, CSS, and SQL, backed by a MySQL database. The intent is to distribute the system as #FOSS, and have instances around the world federate with each other much like #ActivityPub instances do. We already created a different application (written in Python and SVG) that can extract the data and turn the people's profiles into paper posters and social media posts. We seek to keep the tech stack as straightforward as possible, to allow easy collaboration.
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