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Ushahidi Weekly Update (#14)

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: July 10 - 17, 2012

Community and Deployers:

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

Deployment of the Week: Krymsk (Mapping floods in Kuban, Russia). The Krymsk team has a large volunteer base, planned workflow and managed high volumes. On the technical side, they contributed updated Russian localization, some important Crowdmap bug, tested our new high load servers as well as provided some important design feedback. See all the Deployments of the Week Community Wiki > Weekly 14 - July 10 - 17, 2012 > krymsk.jpg

Code:

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

We are testing 2.5 for Code Release next week. Take a spin? You don't have to be a developer to dig in. If you have used Ushahidi or Crowdmap, your feedback is invaluable.

Community news:

About: This section is for any major change announcements.

The next Community Developer call is:

When: Monday, July 30, 2012 / Tuesday July 31, 2012

Times:

London (United Kingdom - England)	Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 2:00:00 AM	BST	UTC+1 hour
Portland (U.S.A. - Oregon)	Monday, July 30, 2012 at 6:00:00 PM	PDT	UTC-7 hours
Nairobi (Kenya)	Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 4:00:00 AM	EAT	UTC+3 hours
Tokyo (Japan)	Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 10:00:00 AM	JST	UTC+9 hours
Wellington (New Zealand)	Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 1:00:00 PM	NZST	UTC+12 hours
Corresponding UTC (GMT)	Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 01:00:00

Francesco Bartoli of GeoBeyond presented about GeoAvalanche. The graphic demonstrates the power that deployers can exercise to customize and inform in their projects. Well Done! Geoavalanche project.pdf

Ajay Kumar's PowerCuts has been nominated for mBillionth Award South Asia 2012 under the Category: m-News & Journalism along with 5 others. Keep your fingers crossed for July 21st.
Yezzi monitors corruption in Tunisia. They recently received coverage on Global Voices.

Electby returns to Belus

Events:

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

OSCON is here! David Kobia and I are at OSCON. We're participating in two ways:

HFOSS at OSCON: Ushahidi is part of a HFOSS Community Working Group. Together with Benetech, SocialCoding4Good, Mifos and OpenMRS, we'll be sharing how developers can get engaged.

On Thursday July 19th, David Kobia will be presenting on "Pivoting an African Open Source Project"