The Ushahidi Blog » mashup http://blog.ushahidi.com Thoughts and Lessons from an African Open-Source Project Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:33:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Some Ushahidi Updates http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/05/15/some-ushahidi-updates/ http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/05/15/some-ushahidi-updates/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 05:31:40 +0000 Erik Hersman http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/05/15/some-ushahidi-updates/ The team behind Ushahidi (Ory, David, Juliana and myself) have all been quite busy over the last couple weeks. Here’s a quick rundown of what we’ve been up to.

  • Juliana, David and myself met about a week ago to discuss what an Ushahidi 2.0 might look like. We’re exploring creating a free, open source version, rebuilt from the ground up that anyone will be able to use around the world.
  • Ushahidi is a finalist in the NetSquared Challenge, a competition amongst mashup applications to win some money for further development. David and I will be going to San Francisco in just over a week to represent Ushahidi. Thank you all for helping us get this far!
  • I gave a talk yesterday at the Where 2.0 conference where I gave some of the history behind what we did, and explained why tools like Ushahidi are needed.
  • Ory and I have been working to create Ushahidi as an organization so that we can start to receive funding and do more work on the project. We’re looking for more developer/programmer types who would like to pitch in on this too!

We’ll keep you posted on any other news, and there’s some big news coming…

]]> http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/05/15/some-ushahidi-updates/feed/ 2 Ushahidi is a NetSquared Mashup Challenge Finalist http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/03/31/ushahidi-is-a-netsquared-mashup-challenge-finalist/ http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/03/31/ushahidi-is-a-netsquared-mashup-challenge-finalist/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:29:37 +0000 Erik Hersman http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/03/31/ushahidi-is-a-netsquared-mashup-challenge-finalist/ Ushahidi: Featured Project at NetSquaredWe’re proud to announce that Ushahidi has been voted in as one of the 21 finalists for a chance at the NetSquared Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize money for further development. Thank you to everyone who voted and has made this a reality!

Next Steps
We need you to leave comments on our blog (here) or project profile with your thoughts, opinions and offers to help. If you want to be involved in growing this African-led project to the world, get in touch with us and we’ll make you part of our extended development team. We need all the help we can get!

Again, thank you so much for your support. We truly wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you going through the (lengthy) voting process. Personally, I hope that we get a number of you on board as part of the Ushahidi team.

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