Day of Swift (Virtual Event)

It is always better to test software together. We'd like to bounce ideas with you. So, here's to a Day of Swift Beta.

SwiftRiver is a free and open source platform for helping people to make sense of large amounts of information in a short amount of time. It is a mission to democratize access to the tools used to make sense of data - discover information that is authentic, accurate and above all, relevant - by providing the following capabilities:

Gathering and filtering of information from a variety of channels e.g. RSS, Email, SMS, Twitter etc Drawing insights from the collected information Allowing people to create buckets of information using their own expectations of authority and accuracy as opposed to popularity.

Date: Saturday, September 8, 2012

Time: 9:00 am - 10pm UTC

This is a virtual event. We will have Swift leaders from many timezones covering the hosting.

EAT host: Emmanuel Kala

EDT hosts: David Kobia, Heather Leson

HAST host: Chris Blow

How to participate:

1. Sign up for your SwiftRiver beta account (http://swiftly.org/beta/)

2. Connect with us either via skype or irc: See the "Contact Us" wiki page (https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Contact+Us)

3. Sign on during the Day of Swift into the Swift Public Skype channel or IRC. Here is a schedule to let you connect and commit times in advance. (https://docs.google.com/a/ushahidi.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajto4YrsWC3bdFZQTHVKMlh4blA1bmRBZlZRZGlsaVE#gid=0)

4. Hurray, we can then collaborate. In the real-time chats, we can test, discuss, debate, and make recommendations.

Documentation:
We'll set up an etherpad and google doc to collaborate topics. The team might even designate items to test/break as part of the day.
Issues, bugs and features will be tracked in Github (https://github.com/ushahidi/SwiftRiver).

More SwiftRiver documentation (https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/SwiftRiver) is on the wiki.

More on the Day of Swift wiki page (https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Day+of+Swift+Beta).