Ushahidi Platform V3.0.0-beta.6 is out! Take it out for a spin on our demo site, but keep in mind that this is not ready for production, but we continue to get closer.

What’s changed?

• We completed the integration of tag permissions.
• We have added migrations for the default OAuth scopes and client.
• We also added migration for the default "admin" user (password is also "admin").
• The changing message status now has an immediate effect.
• The posts created from messages now inherit the message-created date.
• We removed all submodules in favor of composer components.

What’s New?

• It is now possible to create new custom forms!
• You can edit existing custom form details.
• You can see all activity on a message (replies and responses).
• We have started work to provide deeper access control integration.

Documentation

We’ve continued our series of blog posts about the Ushahidi Platform architecture. Our last post, Part 3 of our Ushahidi Platform: Under the Hood series was recently published, focusing on the web client. The next blog post in this architecture series was delayed and will be out soon!

How Can You help?

Developers

• Download and Install the platform
• Set up a development build
• Follow our developer processes to send in bug reports and submit changes.
  • If you’re not already set up on Phabricator, please head over to the Ushahidi Phabricator page and sign up. Once your account is approved, here’s a guide to get you started.

Users/Deployers

• Have a look at our roadmap, and add any features you feel are of high priority for you onto the Community Features/ Wishlist section
• Have you had a look at our toolkit/guide outline yet? Have any thoughts on what’s missing or what we should add? Share your feedback!

Everyone!

• Join our discussions on IRC and the mailing list

Attention v2.x deployers! We *STILL* need you :)!

• Datasets: Talk to us about the types of statistics data and visualizations that would be most useful to you by chiming into this Phabricator task. We’re still looking for v2.x deployers to share datasets with us for testing out data visualisations on v3. Get in touch with Sara Jayne Terp and/or Angela Oduor.
• Community Paths: We want to better understand how to meet your goals and expectations on v3 based on your experience with Ushahidi v2. Share your experiences with us. Instructions here
  • Disaster response
  • Human Rights Mapping
  • Anti-Corruption Mapping
  • Election Monitoring
  • Environmental Mapping

Missed the last couple of discussions we had last month? Here’s a playlist with all recordings.

Translators Powering Ushahidi v3!

We recently launched a campaign to get translations of Ushahidi products over 80% on each language. We just set up a translation repository for v3 on Transifex, so DIG IN! Here's a quick guide on how to get started ;) In the meantime, stay tuned on our blog, meetup page, twitter, facebook page and wiki for more announcements. Happy v3 beta release day!!