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I am a Permanent Member (or Community Ambassador) of the Drupal Association.Ushahidi - Haiti disaster relief portal
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 19:07 — Robert Douglass
This is an amazing site for helping with Haiti disaster relief built on an open source platform that I hadn’t heard of: Ushahidi.
The site is a clean and efficient portal for all the reports of what is happening on the ground and what is up with relief efforts.
Here is a list of resources for helping. Here is another list from the CrisisCommons Wiki.
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Re: Drupal-Ushahidi (Sahana, inSTEDD, etc)
At Saturday’s CrisisCamp in silicon valley, we prototyped taking the GeoRSS feeds from Ushahidi, Sahana (www.sahana.lk), and inSTEDD (www.inSTEDD.org), as well as a prototype of ‘tweak the tweet’ (http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/1f74204947e4aeb86d328beb616ad826.html) piped through a “hotornot”-like ranking engine to Metacarta (www.metacarta.com) to produce another GeoRSS feed, that creates Drupal workflow CCK items.
Rob is aware of all this, and who will provide continuity for that prototype to this insanely productive Drupal ecosystem. The original hackers have guns to their heads at their day jobs, and can’t drink from this firehose, but hopefully Rob can help steer/guide the transition to an awesome fusion of this stuff.
What we can use off the immediate critical path, soas not to increase the overwhelming confusion going on now, is some smart grey matter to ‘engage’ on the Ushaihidi and Sahana listservs, and understand how we do federated identity. Answer isn’t just “OpenID” - they are in production NOW in Haiti. You guys are about to blow away the skeptics. :-)
Chris Nicholas
UN-SPIDER technical consultant
www.un-spider.org
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