Open Source, Standards Based Web Sites for
Emergency Operations Centers

This open source, free website is a template for your community's Emergency Operations Center's use. The goal is to provide sophisticated tools that simplify your staff and volunteers effort during disasters. Easy navigation and workflows mirror ICS & NIMS guidance for typical EOCs. Each community is encouraged to customize their own website to match local risks, special populations, and other circumstances.

EOC.online is a flexible, free, toolset for creating your own NIMS/ICS based EOC website. Set up a usable, working web site in minutes, and then customize it based on your community experience in the years ahead!

Features - Our Vision

A Community Vision

  • Community supported: your experience drives the direction of future features

A Flexible, Secure Website Framework

  • Integrates best of breed open source projects for advanced data gathering and visualization
  • Bootstrap 4
  • FontAwesome
  • Linear Fonts
  • The entire site is skinned: change the appearance of the site, a few pages, or portions of a page in seconds

Site-wide Role and Individual Security

  • Fine grain control by custom role or individual allows you to control at a high level who has access to view, edit or approve changes
  • Workflow tools allow multistep processes
  • Sitewide Search, integrated into most modules
  • System wide Tagging and Category systems allow taxonomy & folksonomy
  • Multilingual public facing component
  • Site edits are versioned and available for recall if mistakes are made
  • Get your initial site set up in minutes
    • Runs on a laptop if needed, or on a multi-tier server farm, or in the cloud: your choice! Run in the cloud by default, then switch once the internet goes down to a local server.
  • Standards Based
    • HTML5
    • CSS3
  • NIMS/ICS based, focused on serving the fundamental tasks all EOCs need to perform
NOTE: With COVID, work on this project has been considerably delayed (as I've focused on helping Vashon's model response), so there is not much here, yet. Please check back later in 2022 for updates - or register above to get on our mailing list.
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EOC.online, A Community Approach

EOC.online is a cooperative approach, pooling the resources of EOC specialists around the country to build upon shared work of others to produce quality software for helping us help our neighbors. Join our team to help define our future direction.

eoc.online is built on top of the DNN web hosting framework, the most mature, open-source web framework available for Microsoft's .NET system, using a variety of open source, innovative solutions.

DNN makes designing, building and managing feature-rich websites and social communities fast, easy and cost-effective. Thousands of organizations like Bank of America, Aetna, True Value Hardware, Whirlpool, the National Football League (NFL), the US Department of Defense (DoD) and Sports Direct have leveraged DNN to deploy highly engaging online experiences.

EOC, ICS & NIMS Specific Features

General

  • Centralized place for all your EOC materials
    • Document Library
    • Wiki
    • Password storage
    • Phone book and Contact listing - sync with Code Red or other Alerting systems
  • Check-In and Out
  • Schedule staff for upcoming operational periods

Operations Section

  • Incident Log with multiple views: sort, filter and assign
  • Incident map
  • Share incidents with other trusted EOCs

Planning Section

  • Maintain Situation Awareness with maps and advanced analytic tools
  • Assemble your IAP easily

Logistics Section

  • Generate Resource Requests for other sites unique formats: WebEOC, or other
  • Track Resource Requests
  • Realtime business rules provide checks even in the heat of a disaster

Finance and Administration Section

  • Track burn rate
  • Track personnel hours