Weekly: Swift Demo, RHOK & Election Hackathons

From Swift to Hack, here's the Ushahidi Weekly: The SwiftRiver team gave a demo during our monthly Developer Community Call. We're participating in Random Hacks of Kindness and the Free Election Hackathons.

From the Community:

Women Under Siege was featured in the medical journal: The Lancet. The Water Voices team created this video to highlight their project plans: Deployment of the Week for May 25th: Bijoya - Mapping Harassment in Bangladesh. See all the Deployments of the Week

Into the Code:

We'll be releasing code later today (2.4). This is a bug fix release. Please upgrade your deployments to the latest version. Watch the here for more details soon. On this month's community call, the SwiftRiver team did a demo and answered questions about the code: Listen to May's Community Call.

Events:

We're planning some webinars focused on topical mappers (For example: corruption and election monitoring mapper). Do you have any suggestions? Would you like to participate or help organize?

Random Hacks of Kindness - June 1 - 3, 2012 - global

RHoK week is here! The Water Voices team will be braining in Toronto.

If you are working on a hack which will include Ushahidi, please let us know!

If you can attend a local event, Great! We also need a virtual hand. Simply stay tuned on the Ushahidi skype community developer chat room. Or ping, Hleson at ushahidi dot com for more details.

Free Elections Hackathon - London (UK)

We're participating in Free Elections Hackathon June 16, 2012 in London (UK).

Register to attend the Free Elections Hackathon

If you have any ideas for plugins that would be useful for elections, let us know.

For all the Ushahidi weekly report, see our wiki. Have a great week! Heather