Ushahidi Meetup 09 A from Ushahidi on Vimeo.

Today is a big day for a number of reasons, one of those reasons is that we're putting on our first big Ushahidi Usergroup Meeting in Nairobi at Strathmore University (we're tagging it #UshMeet). It's a full day of sessions, roundtables and talks by the users of Ushahidi, mixed in with the development community and Ushahidi core team. Standby for a slew of blog posts, images and video. Thanks to everyone who has volunteered to make this event possible. I'll be adding their names/links here as the day goes on.

The Programme

10:00 am: Welcome and ground rules, goals and expectations, introductions 10:30 am: Morning plenary – Presentations of Ushahidi Implementations * Peace Heroes/ KANCO (Kenya Aids NGOs Consortium) * Urban Mirror – Vincenzo Carvalho * Hatari.co.ke – Ken Kasina 11:15 am: First set of breakout sessions for testers * Feedback Sessions – Rebecca and Juliana * Round-table on implementation, challenges, tips and knowledge sharing 12:30 pm: Break 1:30 pm: – Speed Geeks and Application Demos * Demo of the Ushahidi core platform – Erik Hersman (preview of ‘Mogadishu’ release * FrontlineSMS – Emmanuel Kala * Demo of Java application – Steve Mutinda & Jessica Colaco * OpenStreetMap and MapKibera – Mikel Maron * Demo of Android application – Josiah Mugambi * Demo of Iphone app – Wilfred Mworia 2:45 pm: Break (15 minutes) 3:00 pm: Open discussion on the tools, possible implementations, considerations and recommendations * Design (Kwame Nyongo) * Mobile Strategy – Jessica Colaco & Marten Schoonman * Internet Marketing – Joshua Wanyama * Linking up with Advocacy organizations & media (Off-line Strategy) 4:30 pm: Wrap-up/closing plenary