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https://bitbucket.org/erindaJa/samo_android_fork_rhok120112

Desktop

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Postgres, Ruby 1.9.2

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SAMo

Summary:

For RHoK Global December 2012 it was proposed to extend the current solution for SAMo (http://www.rhok.org/problems/social-accountability-mozambique-phase-2) with features to make the data collected during the pilot more accessible, to improve the overall process and make the platform ready for deployment in further locations.

We focused on adding support for small tablets , improving the graphics and adding two new feature(possibility of taking pictures of each campain and possiblity of viewing the stored pictures).

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http://pop-up-burlington.herokuapp.com/

Programming languages:

Java (Android app)

End user environments:

Mobile

Images and Video:

Pop Up Burlington

Website/App store links:

http://www.slideshare.net/amekay/pop-up-burlington-rhok-june-2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kt2-Jq99ww&feature=youtu.be

Summary:

Pop Up Burlington is matchmaking great ideas for making our community better and great spaces that aren't being used to their full potential. Art and music events, community meals, hackathons, social entrepreneurs testing out new ideas for potential businesses...who knows what will pop up? All Pop Up projects come from the community and from the heart. For now, we're playing matchmaker: all submissions will be thoughtfully reviewed and several matches made to unlock great events for everyone to enjoy. Later this summer, you'll be able to start using the Pop Up Burlington site to make your own matches.

Pop Up Burlington is itself a Pop Up: a group of people had a great idea for something they thought would make the community better. Thanks to the Random Hacks of Kindness event sponsored by Small Dog Electronics, and the mad coding skills of Adam Bouchard (Agilion Apps) and Micah Mutrux, supported by Amy Kirschner (VBSR Marketplace), Kyra Kristof (Pollin8r) and Will Szal, we now have a working web app. Amazing community partners include: Burlington Community Economic Development Office, Old North End Arts and Business Network, and &.

Why we are working on this problem:

How many amazing ideas are never realized because of a lack of appropriate space? How many commercial spaces are vacant or underutilized?

What we accomplished during the event:

During this event we:

designed and developed a working web app that supports the submission of ideas and space information from community members, and matching by system admins
created a short promotional video
facilitated a match for an upcoming Pop Up event: Co-Working Shipping Lane to be held at Agilion Apps' office space

Traction:

We have secured local partnerships with Burlington Community Economic Development Office and the Old North End Arts and Business Network, and have already received a request to share the Pop Up methodology and web app code for use in San Francisco.

Next steps:

For (approx.) the next twelve weeks, we will prototype Pop Up Burlington. The web app developed during this event will be released as an alpha and used to facilitate the collection of local ideas and available spaces. This initial release asks users to respond to a handful of questions in a long text format. We are using this approach to surface the interests and descriptive language naturally employed by users, and will use this information to build the taxonomy for more specific data collection forms. Using a curated approach, we will manage the selective matching of ideas to spaces in order to further refine our methodology. Later this summer, another iteration of the Pop Up Burlington site will be released that supports users to make their own matches.

Community help:

Burlington locals interested in gift economics.

Code Repository:

https://github.com/rhokburlington/pop-up-burlington

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End user environments:

http://www.drop2drink.org/

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Burlington, VT, U.S.A.

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Seeking people with skills in:

Ruby Coders

Drop2Drink: Website + Foursquare Awareness for SF Emergency Hydrants

Website/App store links:

https://foursquare.com/user/17653678/list/sf-emergency-drinking-water-hydrants

http://twitter.com/drop2drink

Summary:

San Francisco has 67 Emergency Drinking fountains marked with a blue water drop, designated to provide drinking water in the event of a disaster.

However, awareness about these hydrants is very low. SF city published a PDF listing of hydrants, but did not make it otherwise available.

Why we are working on this problem:

A project presented by Sarah Filley at the San Francisco Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK#4) event on December 3rd-4th, 2011.

Citizen-led Urban Innovation can activate micro preparedness actions that can impact neighborhood resiliancy.

Using mobile and web to digitize this map increases awareness of an exisitng SFPUC program. By exporting our data to foursquare we are directly influencing millions of users to take small steps towards Emergency Preparedness. By Focusing on a physical object we can leverage technology like foursquare, to bring these digital tools back into the every day routes of citizens on the way to work, play, or school.

What we accomplished during the event:

To raise awarness of these hydrants, we created

Website
An interactive Emergency Drinking Water Hydrant Map
twitter
Hydrant DB
SMS group messaging system
A venue in Foursquare for every hydrant
QR codes to attach to hydrants as an interventionist strategy to activate vital information.

We also started the framework for other civic groups to do the same. We've started a system for converting Fusion tables to FourSquare venues.

Progress made since the event:

First Place! New video available: http://animoto.com/play/yUOEncZXPenUR3tFnb0fzQ

Traction:

@drop2dink

www.drop2drink

SF2drop group message

Next steps:

We need to finish our generic Fusion to Foursquare converter. Then it needs to be made available for similar civic-minded groups.

Community help:

Drop2drink is interested in partnering with civic, public, and private groups to make these features more broadly available.

In addition, we are looking to partner with small businesses to offer redeemables to four square mayors surrounding these 67 hydrants as a way of publicizing our preparedness message and activating the neighboring residents and communities.

Code Repository:

https://bitbucket.org/jeffreyyungwu/fusionsquare/src

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Programming languages:

python

Frameworks:

Google App Engine

FourSquare

End user environments:

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Images and Video:

Ushahidi Platform - free and open source software for emergency response information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

Website/App store links:

http://ushahidi.com

Summary:

develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

Code Repository:

http://ushahidi.com/

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https://github.com/ghimire/dewpointcalc

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Dew Point Calculator

Summary:

dewpointcalc is an application geared towards implementing Humidity Slide Functionality with Software. An SMS request is made by a user with wet bulb temperature, dry bulb temperature and height. The server does the calculations from input variables and returns Dew Point, Relative Humidity and Water vapor pressure.

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https://github.com/ghimire/weathercollector

Programming languages:

PHP; JavaScript

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Banjul, The Gambia

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Weather Collector

Summary:

Weather Collector is an application geared towards improving Weather Data Collection & Transmission. It uses readily available open source software like gnokii to transmit data through SMS. The collection center receives all the weather data from various stations and keeps a log.

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Programming languages:

PHP; JavaScript

End user environments:

http://eden.sahanafoundation.org

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Banjul, The Gambia

Images and Video:

Sahana

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Summary:

A flexible platform for building solutions tailored to the needs of individual organisations working for huamnaitarian purposes, with many powerful modules which can be easily interconnected together.

Why we are working on this problem:

Organisations like CERT need real solutions with proper support organisations behind them, not simple toys which are built in a weekend.

We are trying to encourage developers to join us on incrementing the functionality of real solutions rather than constantly reinventing the wheel with a million prototypes.

Traction:

We have been used in most major disasters since inception in Indian Ocean Tsunami. Recent activations have included Haiti, Pakistan, Japan & Libya. We are also used for ongoing projects by the IFRC, HELIOS foundation, etc

Community help:

Attract long-term developers.

Code Repository:

https://code.launchpad.net/sahana-eden

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http://groups.google.com/group/sahana-eden

Programming languages:

python

Frameworks:

web2py

End user environments:

Server requirements:

minimal

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Images and Video:

Seeking people with skills in:

Python

JavaScript

CSS

Mailing list:

Issue Tracker:

http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/BugReportingGuidelines

Make your site "kind": Gamifying and incentivizing your community members towards social action

Website/App store links:

http://www.aok.tv

Summary:

AOK is an online and iOS (Android version on temp hold) social game for good that incentivizes individuals that post, share, comment on and "like" Acts and Observations of Kindness with points that get donated to real world charities and relief efforts. We offer customized and white labeled versions for a fee so that brands may engage community members beyond information exchange into action. We also create campaigns to promote brands' cause marketing efforts. This freely offered bit of code above allows any site admin to drop a feed of AOK acts and observations anywhere on any site. Like a Twitter feed, only it's all about positive action!

Why we are working on this problem:

AOK believes that the world is evolving towards increased social responsibility, both at the individual and the corporate level. Consumers are demanding more from the companies with which they do business and individuals are seeking to get recognized for their positive contributions. Brands and organizations however are often at a loss for feasible strategies to "get in this game" with low risk to their existing traction. With AOK, brands may affordably showcase their contributions, leveraging the strength of their communities' scale and enthusiasm to make positive change.

What we accomplished during the event:

We've built a lively destination and tools that cross market several brands' and organizations' campaigns, thereby introducing proactive citizens to new organizations and brands that also aim to make positive social change. Since launch, we've converted this online and iOS-apps driven user energy into thousands of dollars in donations to real world nonprofits and relief efforts.

Progress made since the event:

Funding, development, launch, strategic partnerships signed.

Traction:

We've closed and/or are closing on several major organizations and brands that will either "live" at AOK, implement our white lable aka "supergroup" solution, campaign-specific widget feeds, and/or drop in the general AOK feed widget's code provided herein. Please contact me (323.627.7428 or ira@aok.tv) for details about which brands/businesses are already on board or about to be.

Next steps:

We're building seminal technology to graphically represent indivudals' long tail of impact in a way that's never been done before and that we predict will make AOK very "sticky".

Community help:

We're currently funded but seeking a new investor for our next round. Leads are appreicated.

We can also use more Ruby and iOS developers who are passionate about making a social impact with their work.

Code Repository:

https://gist.github.com/1355359

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Methodology

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HTML 4 or 5 Graphic design

Programming languages:

Ruby on rails

iOS

Android

End user environments:

Images and Video:

Seeking people with skills in:

ruby on rails

Sales

Getting Your Water Bill through SMS and Much More

Summary:

The main solution we have allows you to receive your water bill through a text message. We also have some other solutions to deal with other problems a water utility might face.

Why we are working on this problem:

So that customers can receive their water bill without clogging up the customer support lines of the water company.

What we accomplished during the event:

We created multiple solutions during the event:

*The most important was a SMS service that allows you to get your water bill through text messages and was designed to work with the customer database of the Botswana Water Utility Corporation

*The second was a wiki where customers could post problems or breaks with the water supply that could then be resolved with

*The third was a series of quizzes that allow the user to test their knowledge about Water in Africa and Global Warming.

*The last is just a barebones website to hold the above together.

Next steps:

The current wiki we have should be replaced with the free and opensource mediawiki which lets you run wikis on your own servers as opposed to hosting it on the editthis.info website.

Community help:

It would be great to get our SMS program into the hands of the Botswana Water Utility Corporation, whose database it was designed to work with.

Code Repository:

https://docs.google.com/#folders/0B5bd28lFP2ijNzIxNmY3NWItMGU4Yy00NjM5LWFhODctNz...

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