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Welcoming Brian Herbert to the Ushahidi team

I was in Ghana last month for Maker Faire Africa, and for some Ushahidi meetings. While there, I was able to spend time with the devs from Ghana who work on Ushahidi – Brian Herbert being one of them. He’s a top-notch PHP programmer who has spent most of the year working in Accra on a fascinating application called eSoko. He’s also pulled a stint in Kenya as part of the Peace Corps and worked at CBS Interactive. In the evenings, since 2008, he’s been helping push the Ushahidi application forward.

Brian Herbert in Ghana

We’ve always had an inordinate amount of programming talent within the volunteers that are attracted to working on the Ushahidi platform. It’s what’s gotten us so far. When one of those developers really stands out, and we get the resources to bring them on, we try to bring them into the team to help us with some even more challenging problems that take dedicated time.

Brian will be leading some really interesting projects within the team. For starters, he’s in charge of our new analytics and statistics push, so look for some cool visualizations in the next couple months. I’m really excited about this, it’s a big project and will involve us tapping into quite a few other minds in the community to best understand how to use our data in useful ways.

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By Erik Hersman
11 September 2009

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  1. Chris Blow said
    on 11 September 2009

    Right on!!! Brian’s awesome. Can’t wait to see new stats and viz!!

  2. Ken said
    on 12 September 2009

    You are what a team refers to as an asset. Welcome officially.

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    [...] Brian Herbert of Ushahidi chimes in to explain the purpose and history of the site, then asks Rashid a “devil’s advocate question,” as he calls it.  He says that, given that Rashid is using Ushahidi in Egypt, does she think it’s worth the risk to people reporting to the system, given that Egypt has arrested so many bloggers.  He also asks the entire panel if it’s worth blogging or commenting on blogs in their countries, given the potential risks. [...]

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