Google People Finder has been made Open Source

[Chamindra de Silva]

I would just like to quickly commend the Google team for decide to make the Google People finder Open Source.

    Ref: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/be-part-of-improving-google-person.html

It was the only gap I saw in the project in terms of our H-FOSS aspirations.

BTW We have incorporated most of the feedback on the code of conduct and updated it to and version 1.1. This now reads as follows:

1. Our primary goal is to help victims through the direct and indirect use of humanitarian free and open source software (H-FOSS)
2. We will keep tools simple, end user usability the focus and alleviation of suffering for victims the goal
3. We will collaborate with other projects to do our best to provide comprehensive solutions even if that means that there is some mutual redundancy
4. We support open standards and will seek to implement and test them in advance in preparation for collaborative response
5. We will adhere to global and local cultural norms of respect and etiquette in our interactions with other developers, users, and responders. We will strive to understand their points of view and preferences.
6. We will understand the needs of our users and adapt our systems to their ways of doing things and not the other way around.
7. We will disclose commercial or other relevant interests when suggesting a solution.
8. We will actively share our knowledge and best practices with others.
9. We will try our best to not become a bottleneck or a single point of failure in deployment and development by promoting training and good documentation practices
10. We will honor our commitments when volunteering by ensuring that we understand what is expected of us, and the time and effort involved.
11. We will be honest and forthright when discussing the capabilities and limitations of our solutions.
12. We will support and promote local capacity building and diversity in our communities

Ref: http://humanitarian-ict.org/wiki/h-foss_code_of_conduct


Chamindra de Silva
http://chamindra-de-silva.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/ChamindraS

[Ka-Ping Yee]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 19:46, Chamindra de Silva <cham...@opensource.lk> wrote:

I would just like to quickly commend the Google team for decide to make the Google People finder Open Source. 

    Ref: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/be-part-of-improving-google-person.html

It was the only gap I saw in the project in terms of our H-FOSS aspirations.

Thank you Chamindra!  I appreciate your support.  The project has actually been open source from almost the very beginning; the source code was always available for download under the Apache 2.0 license from the site, but it was only recently that we put together some decent documentation on how to participate in development and decided to make a bigger announcement.

—Ping
Google Crisis Response

[Eduardo Jezierski]

Thanks Ping - it makes a huge difference! Commendations indeed

As someone who actually had to be a user of the app after the Chile eq; I can say there are things myself and others would love to refine, and the extra content helps people get started.

Cheers-

~ej

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[Juliana Rotich]

This is fantastic for the community, I can already see an Ushahidi
plugin in the works for this.

With best regards,
Juliana.

On Nov 21, 2:42 pm, Eduardo Jezierski <ed...@instedd.org> wrote:
> Thanks Ping - it makes a huge difference! Commendations indeed
> As someone who actually had to be a user of the app after the Chile eq; I can say there are things myself and others would love to refine, and the extra content helps people get started.
>
> Cheers-
> ~ej
>
> On Sun,Nov 21, 2010, at 10:45 , Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>

> > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 19:46, Chamindra de Silva <chamin...@opensource.lk> wrote:
> > I would just like to quickly commend the Google team for decide to make the Google People finder Open Source.
>

> >     Ref:http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/be-part-of-improving-google-pe...