Ushahidi Weekly Update (#4)

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: April 10 - 17 (Add details for next week)

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Community and Deployers:

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

Deployment of the Week:  A New Thing: maps activities in Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod congregations

See all the Deployments of the Week

Community Activities:
Francesco Bartoli, Geobeyond, and GeoAvalanche will be presenting at FOSS4G-CEE: Ushahidi Practical Hands On. The event is 21.5-23.5.2012, so you have time to register.

Ushahidi will participating in the NASA Space Apps Challenge. We will be virtual. Ping Heatherleson via Skype to be added to the hack group. We will be working on Francesco Ciriaci's project to create an Ushahidi Offline/Online App

Code:

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

Worked with Esri this week to implement Esri basemaps for all deployers. (Brian Herbert)
Evan is working on scalability and the migration to our new hosting provider for Crowdmap.
Reviewing pull requests and updating some custom deployments. Working on custom low bandwidth and offline tweaks to Ushahidi (Robbie).
Henry is working on a new release for the Android app and the Ushahidi platform auto-upgrader.
Emmanuel is helping on the Ushahidi core for token validation and working on the timeline javascript. Refining search for Swift.
Linda is working on the timeline and map code to decouple these. She is also leading testing and fixed code for the next release. Linda and Emmanuel are working on security fix for an item reported by Exploits DB.
Angie is done the db review and implementation. She is also doing unit testing. Brandon is working on Crowdmap redesign and UX changes for SwiftRiver.

Ideas / Plans:

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

Our friends at the Engine Room are doing a Social Tech Census to determine resources and communities. Can you help them out?  

Community changes:

About: This section is for any major change announcements.

Heather will be brainstorming on the feedback loops to improve community engagement and some upcoming website changes.

Ushahidi is happy to have Michelle Lee join us as an intern (Localization project and Video Editor) and David Peter Simon, an assistant for a month in the UX space. 

Events:

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

Hosting:  The next Ushahidi Developer Community call is April 30th/May 1st. See details.

Attending: 

Heather attended FourSquare Day in Toronto, Canada. This article has much to say about the future of location checkins.

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 is planning event meetups in Hamilton (ON) and Panama City.  As well, we will be announcing two online community meetups: Developer and Everyone.

Patrick is meeting with HHI, HealthMap and RecordedFuture in Boston.

Erik is at Innovation and Tech Day in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday, Apr 24.