Ushahidi Weekly Update (#9)

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: May 15 - 22, 2012

Community and Deployers:

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

Deployment of the Week: DesignWeekNYC. (blog post from Cooper-Hewitt Labs) See all the Deployments of the Week

Code:

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

• We are about to release a new version of the Ushahidi platform - v2.4 (slated for 29th May). This is mainly a bug-fix release. Asking for your help in testing and confirming the bugs that are labelled as "CLOSED" have indeed been fixed. Feedback can be added here:https://docs.google.com/a/ushahidi.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AizezfooB3k9dC1GX3RsNl9ocnQ3U1lmTUtSbFAwMlE#gid=5. Apart from the fixed bugs, there is an extra spreadsheet for any other feedback - different bug/feature request. Feel free to populate it too. The testing period is till May 25, 2012.

• Can you lend a hand with XSS testing?

• Getting a Google Map "Map Data" pop-up on your deployment? Google made some changes to their map layers. Here is the code fix for it. Thanks Mano Marks and OpenLayers. 

Ideas / Plans:

About: What plans, projects, and ideas do you have?

Community changes:

About: This section is for any major change announcements.

• HeritageCrowd had a tough week with their deployment. Maybe you could lend him a hand with the recovery. His post is very illuminating on deployment woes. Many Ushahidi deployers have had similar experiences. We'll do some thinking on how we can make it easier for you.
• Ajay Kumar wrote about the BMC (municipality in India) funding super apps instead of using Ushahidi.
• Slayer and the GeoSMS team continue to innovate by using Ushahidi plus Open GeoSMS as a Charity Trading Platform.  "Two kinds of tomatoes http://farmersmarket.ushahidi.tw/reports/view/66 and http://farmersmarket.ushahidi.tw/reports/view/67 , and the top page of this charity event is here http://farmersmarket.ushahidi.tw/page/index/5"

Events:

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

Hosting: Ushahidi Developer Community Call

When: May 28 - 29, 2012

Times: Your local time ; 17:00 UTC, 13:00 EDT (US), 10:00 PDT (US), 20:00 EAT (Nairobi), 18:00 BST (UK), 02:00 AM KST/JST (Asia), 03:00AM AEST (AU), date -d @1338224400

Topics: The Swift River team will give a demo of the tool. We'll talk Ushahidi core testing, security and more.

Attending:

MESH conference (Toronto) is May 23 - 24, 2012. Heather is speaking about Ushahidi: A testimony for change using information collection, visualization and interactive mapping

Meetings:

About: Ushahidi core team will share about their meetings to improve the Community experience. If you are meeting about Ushahidi, feel free to share too!

Heather met with Allison and John of Gov2.0 Radio to talk about how to connect deployers to their efforts.