San Francisco Ushahidi & Media hackathon

Join us for a day of hacking and braining!

Ushahidi is a non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Some of our core user groups are: media, non-governmental and governmental organizations, non-profits, academics, students, techs/developers and more.

We will focus on three topics:

1. Media hacking: Frame planning & prototyping for the Verifying Sources challenge for the Media, Freedom and Web event (Mozilla- https://donate.mozilla.org/page/signup/fest... (https://donate.mozilla.org/page/signup/festival-save-the-date))

Heather Ford, Ushahidi Web Ethnographer, will lead a discussion and hacking.

2. Core hacking: Ushahidi hacking to help our Community (some ideas):

*Filtering reports by polygon

*Using the custom forms on mobile phones

*API Auth

*Review some plugin requests

*Play with the Ushahidi Firefox extension

Emmanuel Kala, Ushahidi Developer, will lead hackers through core Ushahidi use and work on hacks

3. City Hacking: The City of San Francisco is interested in testing Ushahidi as a capacity and community prototype.

Heather Leson, Ushahidi Community Engagement, will lead a discussion plus proto-map based on some input provided from a city event held earlier in the week.

Details:

Location - 2 Harrison, Mozilla HQ

Time and date: Saturday, October 8, 2011

10:00am - 17:00 pm PST

Who should attend?

Web designers, software developers ( https://github.com/ushahidi ), journalists, media hackers, mappers, GIS, mobile developers, policy thinkers, academics, and you.

What should you bring?

Your brain, a smile, laptop, powerstrip, extension cord, and a mobile device.