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Ushahidi Weekly Update (#2)

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 every Tuesday.
Date: March 26 - April 3, 2012

Community and Deployers:

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

Deployment of the Week: Syria Tracker. See all the Deployments of the Week

Can you help the International Detention Coalition with their outreach campaign? They are mapping incidents involving children in immigration detention.

The Women's Media Center launched their map Women under Siege. This team has done a phenomenal amount of outreach for the project. It is a good use case for other deployers to model.

Code:

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

A security patch for the Ushahidi Platform is being tested and will be released this week.

Crowdmap had an outage on Friday, March 30th due to a DDOS attack on our hosting provider. We are making some technical changes (scalability) this week to address these issues. The Crowdmap team will be working on topical maps in the coming weeks.

SwiftRiver beta is pending. Brian M., Brandon, David and Emmanuel are integrating the UI changes. The timeline for private beta on April 9, 2012: http://swiftly.org/beta/

Ushahidi core team is testing a security update, db schema changes/documentation , and bug fixing/testing. They are also working separate the map load and timeline in Ushahidi core. This will help improve map load.

Henry is testing the Android release and working on the auto-upgrader for Ushahidi core.  Dale is testing the ios update and is looking for community help on this.

Evan released a pre-built Ushahidi virtual machine intended for demonstrating the platform.

We continue to collect feedback for Ushahidi 3.0. What is your wish list?

Ideas / Plans:

About: What plans, projects, and ideas do you have?

Have you read Wicked Problems by Jon Kolko?

Community changes:

About: This section is for any major change announcements.

A community newsletter will go out on April 3rd to encourage people to join the wiki community. We are working on a community site redesign to integrate all the community touch-points (wiki, forums, and community site).

Events:

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

Hosting:

Heather Ford is hosting a WIkiSweeper Research Workshop in San Francisco on April 4th. If you are local, you can participate. The recording will be posted after the event.

There will be an Ushahidi Istanbul Meetup on April 9th.

Attending:

Heather Leson attended the Ontario Government's Social Media Conference on March 29th. She was on a panel with the City of Calgary and the Canadian Red Cross.  Heather will be at TedXSilkRoadon April 11th

Juliana Rotich joined Clinton Global Initiative University working session on peace and human rights on March 31st in Washington DC. It was live http://live.cgiu.org. On April 2nd, Juliana met with World Bank regarding open data initiatives.

Patrick Meier is speaking and attending WhereConf on April 3-4th.

Meetings:

About: Ushahidi core team will share about their meetings to improve the Community experience. If you are meeting about Ushahidi, feel free to share too!

Heather will be meeting with some folks from Google Ideas to brain on opportunities for our community.

Patrick is organizing a demo of the RealImpact.me platform to visualize Crowdmap data.