Ushahidi weekly - 2.7 code release, upcoming events

[Heather Leson]

HI Folks,
A few big topics in the weekly:   The Weekly
 

Code of Conduct (draft)
We are long overdue to follow our friends at Ubuntu to have a code of conduct. I've posted the draft on the wiki. Edits welcome. We'd like to firm it up around April 30th or so.
https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Code+of+Conduct

Events:
Uchaguzi election monitoring hangout - April 22nd (see blog for the google hangout link)
Next Developer call - April 23rd http://www.meetup.com/Ushahidi-Community/
SwiftRiver event (Nairobi only) - April 25th http://www.meetup.com/Ushahidi-Community/


Code release

Linda and Robbie have been crunching away at bugs and github issues. The code release 2.7 is rather large. Here are the key dates. If you can help test, we provide more details on the blog post below. And, we'll have more tomorrow.

We'd like to apologize for the sneak up on the Ushahidi platform code freeze. We'll try to give you far more lead time on these in the future.

Key Dates:
Code Freeze: April 18, 2013
Community testing: April 18 – 23, 2013.
Bug Fix April 24 – 26, 2013
Crowdmap upgrade to 2.7 code: April 27-29, 2013
Ushahidi 2.7 Code Release Date: April 30, 2013


Thanks!

Heather

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Heather Leson
Director of Community Engagement
Ushahidi
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