Ushahidi Weekly Update (#24)

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 19 - 25, 2012

Community and Deployers:

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

Lost in Translation

Thanks to the amazing Korean Community. Ushahidi software is now translated into Korean. (Android, SMSSync and Platform) Here's a blog post about this team. We are hoping to increase our Bosnia translations. If you can help, please see the how to documents and our translation platform.

Planning your deployment

Working with digital communities is new for many organizations. The Digital Humanitarian Network has created this "Guidance for Collaboration with Volunteer and Technical Communities."

Deployment of the Week: Lenasia Crime Alert.   See all the Deployments of the Week

Code:

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

We've got a new Android Release!  

Features: 

• Added Android-16 as a target. So now Jelly Bean devices can install this app. 
• Changed the background color for filter by text to red and changed text color to white. 
• Improved whitel labeling experience by add more options for customization. : 

Bug:

• Fix lat/lon reverse issue. See #69.
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ushahidi.android.app&hl=en

Thanks to Kirk Morris of the Standby Task Force, SFBoy and BlueLion99 for their testing and contributions.

Community Call recording - to be added

Events:

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

We had some great events in Toronto, Seoul and Nairobi. Thanks to all the participants in each city. Juliana also got to catch up with Justine MacKinnon of CrisismappersUK.

Some pictures from the events:

(Sitati Kituyi, Angela Odour, and Mark Ekisa holding a Crowdmap infographic.)

(Don Cameron of Democracity.ca presenting at the Ushahidi Toronto Meet-up)

(Marc Abbyd talking about Medic Mobile at the Ushahidi Toronto Event)

Upcoming:

Ushahidi Washington DC meetup - October 9, 2012 http://www.meetup.com/Ushahidi-Community/events/83891272/

International Conference of Crisis Mappers, Washington DC,  October 11 - 14, 2012
International Anti-Corruption Conference, Brazil November 7 - 10, 2012

Mozilla Festival London UK November 9 - 11, 2012