We've been deep in Kenyan deployment planning and owe you many updates from the Community around the world. Weekly Updates will start again next week. We've got some great events happening, a few Deployments of the Week and news about Ushahidi 3.0.
February 5: World Radio Day
January 29: Brisbane Storm and Floods
(Photo by Praveen with a guest shot of Mikel Maron, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team.)
Upcoming Ushahidi events
Brandon Rosage is joining the SXTXState Project team in Austin, Texas on Saturday, February 23, 2013. They'll be hacking on Ushahidi. Register for the Austin, TX event. https://twitter.com/CindyRoyal/status/303984229149184001Ushahidi Community Developer call
The Next Ushahidi Developer call is Tuesday, February 26th/Wednesday, February 27, 2013. Join Us. This is a virtual event held on skype. We alternate timezones. This is the North/South America and Asia/Oceania friendly month ; ) Some highlights: Jon Shuler will talk hardware, Robbie MacKay will give an Ushahidi 3.0 update and Evan Sims will share some details about Crowdmap.From the Community
Deployments of the Week
Thank you to our community mapstars from Iraq, Australia, Canada, and, well, the world. Here are some newly recognized Deployments of the Week: February 19: Dispute Monitor (Iraqi Centre for Negotiation and Conflict Management) Note: this is not a public-facing map. February 12: Missing or Unsolved Murders Of Indigenous Sisters


Mumbai Community Event
Ushahidians throughout the globe represent us with their projects and often at events. Here's an awesome report back from Praveen S. He is in Mumbai training folks on Ushahidi: "TechCamp Mumbai Day 1 just concluded a few minutes back and a sense of deep satisfaction is beginning to come in. So what is a TechCamp? you may be asking. A Techcamp is a forum where technologists come together with representatives from Non-Government organizations from around South Asia that includes Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and round to participate in 2 days of interactive sessions, participatory workshops on how technology can be an enabler and catalyze social change. The trainers come from various organizations/ Foundations behind technology for social change like FrontlineSMS, Ushahidi, OpenStreetMap and so on. The day started with an awesome session of Speed Geeking where over 100 participants spent 5 minutes at every table hosted by a Tech Trainer and they rotate. In a period of 60 minutes the participants get to learn about 12 different technologies by spending 5 minutes in each table getting a taste of each. This session was followed a 90 minute deep dive session of each of the technology and I had the opportunity to showcase Ushahidi. The afternoon session included facilitation of workshops around Problems that can be solved with Ushahidi. Its been an awesome day interacting with so many participants, sharing and listening to stories from all over South Asia on social change through technology, I may be tired now but I am Inspired to just be here." Click to reach Praveen Praveen, thanks for being a voice in South Asia!