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Ushahidi Weekly Update (#22)

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: September 4 - 11, 2012

Community and Deployers:

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

Deployment of the Week now has it's own badge which Ushahidi will give all those deployments that have been voted as Deployment of the Week. We'll be contacting all the previous winners this week. If you are selected as a Deployment of the Week, you can add the badge to your communications and to your deployment. It is our small thanks for being inspiring.

Deployment of the Week:

Velobstacles comes from Montreal, Canada and is this week's Deployment of the Week. Cities and how we use them are a common use for Ushahidi. As a cyclist, this map delights! 

Votes are collected from the Ushahidi team and community via a google form. This voting is shared on Mondays and we make the announcement in the Weekly report.  See all the Deployments of the Week

Translation and Language

Thanks to our Korean community, we have a full Korean localization for Ushahidi. See more on their blog. Contacts are Yoe y Han and Ejang. Thanks for your leadership. Anyone can contribute localization to Transifex. All you need to do is adopt a language/localization and get started. And, Contact Us if you have questions.

Do you speak Swahili or Bosnian? We are aiming to increase these localizations.

See this wiki page to get started: Localization and Translation

Into the Code

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

PHPFog is making is easier for you to install Ushahidi. They've built a free hosting tier for PHP apps. (We've been in contact to request Ushahidi 2.5 to be used.)

Forums: There are a few questions on the Forums that could use your expertise. If you know Ushahidi, perhaps you could lend a hand. One example is: Robert is working on a custom design to "submit_edit.js".

Paid Help Wanted: Nigel is trying to launch a customized Ushahidi implementation for Rebuilding Alliance's newest campaign. They want to install a customized basemap instead of a separate layer. Contact consultants@nigelparry.net

Some reading:

About the Gain Prize that Ushahidi won a few months back 

Freedom House IGF Incubator program is seeking ideas and projects until September 15th. To learn more about how to apply see the Freedom House page and Follow along on Facebook.

 

Events:

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

We have upcoming events:

Toronto - Maps and Mobile. Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Seoul - Casual Meetup, Thursday, September 20, 2012

Nairobi - FrontlineSMS to Ushahidi Hack Day, Wednesday, September 26, 2012

In closing, Brian Herbert attended State of the Map last week. (With Hiro of the Japan OpenStreetMap Foundation and Sinsai.info team)