Ushahidi Community Call - March 19, 2012
March 19th is the next Community Developer chat. It will be at 18:00EAT, 15:00 UTC, 11:00 EDT, 08:00 PDT Monday, March 19, 2012.
We will answer questions, get feedback on the how Git is working, new wiki tour
Duration: 1 hour.
Attendees (names not recorded)
Agenda:
Github Issues
- Request feedback on Github Issues - one month in (is it working?)
- What are your top 10 issues - bugs or features that you would like fixed
Ushahidi 3.0 - Q3 wishlist
TOP TEN fixing:features and bug requests for Q3 (wishlist):
http://wiki.ushahididev.com/display/WIKI/Ushahidi+3.0+Wishlist
User Questions and feedback (non-technical)
How should we take feedback (non-technical) http://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Feedback
What forums software might help?
Wiki Tour
Do the labels plus users and teams make sense? (The blog and docs ask that each member self-id their skills and join a team to help build or spread Ushahidi.)
Questions/Feedback:
- Community Call Format:
- Use a Instead of using a separate window, need feedback (skype alternative): (jeremyb)
- you could use /golive in here and it would not be intrusive (would be opt in, would not ring)
- or you could drop a link in here that points to the other window so people could just click it (you don't have to add them individually) (in that case do /set options +JOINING_ENABLED and then /get uri ; copy the uri to another window or an out of band announcement)
- Git - likes having everyone in one place. can see the submits and we are getting follow-up on the issues
- User interface (Aaron)
- OSM local -don’t want to use open layers. What is the roadmap for something more customizable/
- Brandon - for html5 layers or jquery is not happening yet. There is still much usage on browsers that don’t support the alternative.
- Being asked for total custom front-ends
- David: we have dabbled in a few mapping platforms. Need polygons and shapes. OpenLayers is heavy. The decoupling from mapping is Q3 project. Hard to do. There are looking at a few candidates that might not have all the functionality.
- Aaron- need latest versions of Openlayers at time of release would be helpful
- Swift River (Dan)
- Beta program - how often do you send out invites. The beta has not sent out (heather - we need to change the messaging on the sign-up email.)
- Crowdmap is public . Will the next version of SR support Crowdmap?
- SwiftRiver and Ushahidi and Crowdmap testing
- Crowdmap makes it easier to sell to managers
- Is the video from SXSW be available soon? Online within the month
- Wiki
- is confluence a done deal or you’re still evaluating?
- We selected confluence after research and community input.
- Offline/Online app
- http://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Offline+to+Online+App
- Reflab - user interaction
- interesting to collaborate on the mobile applications.
- Heather - asked how we can help improve his experience for collaboration.
- Need - time to chat and build tasks
- Juliana mentioned having a mobile team call. We will feature it on the next
- DB
- Angela talked about the project on refactoring the DB
- http://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Database+Description
- Events
- Juliana -How can we connect with the community better?
- Learning Ushahidi
- Dan, hard to get started
- the blog posts are old. need more content and tutorials
- Provided the following community links:
- http://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Community+Connections
- http://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Contact+U* http://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Join+a+Team
***http://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Technical+Members
**Angela - make this list on the community or website
**Heather - we need a combined website with all the community touchpoints
NEXT CALL: The next community call will be April, 2012. To be determined. Calls will be alternate times by month based on timezones.
Thank you. The recording will be live tomorrow. We will post to the wiki and dev chat. And, we’ll answer the outstanding questions.
Heather