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)
Recording: MP3 or MOV
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
- 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:
NEXT CALL: The next community call will be April, 2012. To be determined. Calls will be alternate times by month based on timezones.
Recording: MP3 or MOV
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