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Ushahidi Weekly Update (#23)

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 11 - 18, 2012

Community and Deployers:

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

Deployment of the Week: Women's Technical Organizations in Africa  See all the Deployments of the Week

There are two new articles which may interest you: “Occupying Wall Street: Places and Spaces of Political Action” and “Mapping Liberty Plaza,” by architects Jonathan Massey and Brett Snyder.

Among the unique contributions here are an infographic that visualizes Occupy Wall Street activities online and axonometric drawings of the transformation of Zuccotti Park into Liberty Plaza.

Liability of Digital volunteers

The Wilson Center, Commons Lab has released report on liability for digital volunteers in disasters. This report is detailed, but very important for everyone to consider as communities grow.

To download the “Responding to Liability” report.

Code:

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

The next Ushahidi Dev Developer Community Meetings is September 24/25, 2012. We’ll talk about upcoming releases, roadmaps and your questions about Ushahidi, Crowdmap and SwiftRiver.

Events:

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

Together with our friends at FrontlineSMS we are hosting a full hack day to make our services more interoperable. If you are in Nairobi, please join us. We are looking for developers and testers in both communities. Registration.

The hack day plan:

  • Get the Web Connection feature in FrontlineSMS 2.0 to push incoming SMSs to an Ushahidi deployment/Crowdmap
  • For contacts in FrontlineSMS that have location information, append this to the SMS before its pushed to Ushahidi
  • Using FrontlineSMS for sending out alerts; two-way communication for SMS (incoming and outgoing)