Welcome
Welcome to the Ushahidi & SwiftRiver wiki, where we keep track of information about the platforms and products we're creating. As a team, our prime goal is to create free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
The Ushahidi Platform road map history and future will help you to familiarize yourself with where we have come from and what the future holds in store.
The SwiftRiver Platform Roadmap (past and present).
Product Guides
Ushahidi
- How to install Ushahidi on Ubuntu NB: See the forum discussion warning that “sudo tasksel install lamp-server” may be a dangerous way to install lamp-server. [I get a system error when trying to edit that page so can't place the warning there!]
- Publicity, Outreach and Engagement (Non-Technical Guide)
SwiftRiver
Integration
Crowdmap
Plugins
SMS
Ushahidi might be coming to an event near you so check here and meet us there.
Getting Involved
Ushahidi grew out of the collaboration of Kenyans during a time of crisis, and we strive to continue collaborating with our wonderful volunteers. This section will contain the a list of the tasks that we need help with and will be a resource for Ushahidi volunteers.
Developers can click here to find out about our development tools and how to get started. If you are interested in writing clients for our platforms, check our API Guides.
Ushahidi is also seeking tranlators to help with localizing Ushahidi, as well as rapid response teams to deploy Ushahidi instances within 24 hours of major crisis events.
If you would like to get involved in the project in whatever way, please contact erik [at] ushahidi [dot] com
Contact Us
To get in touch with the Ushahidi team, or to know more, you can always browse the wiki as well as via the following channels:
NOTE: We have a weekly developers chat via Skype on every Tuesday at 1200 GMT. Checkout our calendar for topics.