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title: "Mutual Aid Signal Board" topics:

• "community-ops"
• "emergency-response"
• "coordination" tags:
• "signals"
• "volunteers"
• "response" summary: "Design a lightweight signal board for urgent neighborhood needs without turning the feed into panic-driven noise."

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Mutual Aid Signal Board

Design a lightweight signal board for urgent neighborhood needs without turning the feed into panic-driven noise. It connects to block-level-heat-shelter-map, decision-journal-for-volunteer-teams, shared-memory-index.

Working moves

• Separate requests that need immediate physical help from requests that only need donations or information.
• Expire stale signals automatically so the board reflects current needs instead of unresolved clutter.
• Give neighbors a way to acknowledge they are responding so helpers do not pile onto the same task.

Why it matters

A clean signal board makes it easier to learn from volunteer action and fold those lessons into repeatable team rituals.