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Ushahidi Weekly Update (#17)

We are a growing community. This weekly report is for the whole community and team to share what you are working on and what you need help with. Highlight your presentations, events, code and more. These reports will go out mid-week.
Date: July 31 - August 7, 2012

Community and Deployers:

About: What are you working on? What do you need help with?

Deployment of the Week: Alegeri Corecte - Romanian Referendum 2012. See all the Deployments of the Week

In the news

ICCM - registration open. The International Conference on Crisis Mapping will be October 11 - 14, 2012. Registration is now open. Stay tuned for a greater focus on ICCM on our blog.

On that note, Patrick Meier wrote this post aboutCollecting Crisis HashTags. Perhaps you have some to add?

Corruption Mapping is a strong use case for Ushahidi. Here is a recent post on that topic:How a Data Journalism project helps track corruption in Colombia

Congratulations to Sahayog (NGO) for winning the Vodafone Mobile For Good award in the health category. They did an Ushahidi/IVR integration.  More about these awards.  Special thanks goes to Tethr's Aaron Huslage for providing some community support to that team.  http://mbillionth.in/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/M4G_FinalBookPrint.pdf

Please share Count down to 19 August! For World Humanitarian Day 2012, join Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos, international star Beyoncé and aid workers from around the world, and help create a global message that’s so loud it can’t be ignored.

Sign up today and tell the world I WAS HERE! http://whd-iwashere.org/

Our friends of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team have released their first annual report:

(1) http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2012-07-31_indonesian_project_report_get_it_while_its_hot
(2) https://github.com/AIFDR/inasafe

MHealth Africa included us in their article "10 best tools to boost mHealth initiatives in Africa".

Code:

About: What code are your working on? What needs help?

UPGRADE DAY

We want to make upgrade to the latest and most secure version as smooth as possible. To help you get upgraded to the latest version, we will be holding Upgrade office hours on Wednesday, August 8th. You can reach us via skype or IRC : Contact Us

If you can help others upgrade, please sign up for an office hour timeslot.

Security

George Chamales and the Rogue Genius team have created the Humanitarian Hack Box. They've included Ushahidi in this. Thanks! 

Humanitarian Hack Box v.1, a VirtualBox VM is pre-loaded with Ushahidi, Sahana Eden, and OpenStreetMap.  The image is designed to enable testing by security professionals interested in finding and fixing vulnerabilities in these programs.
The VM image and documentation are available here:  https://docs.google.com/a/roguegenius.com/folder/d/0B-QB7rXOd9AudzYtWm1pRG1GaHc/edit
Updates on the HHB will be posted here:  http://roguegenius.com/hhb
Any bugs that you do find can be submitted for a chance to win $20,000 from the Access Innovation Prize:  https://accessnow.org/prize

Events:

About: Events, presentations and hosting by Ushahidi Core, Community. Share your presentations, your videos etc.