Thanks Erik, the plugin approach is a great way to do this! I will definitely be looking through that.<br><br>David.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Erik Hersman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:erik@zungu.com">erik@zungu.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Hi David,<div><br></div><div>Yes, it&#39;s available at <a href="http://github.com/ushahidi" target="_blank">http://github.com/ushahidi</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, you can find out more on the wiki (<a href="http://wiki.ushahidi.com" target="_blank">http://wiki.ushahidi.com</a>), forums (<a href="http://forums.ushahidi.com" target="_blank">http://forums.ushahidi.com</a>) and here&#39;s a blog post by David Kobia on the plugin architecture:  <a href="http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/06/29/on-the-ushahidi-plugin-system/" target="_blank">http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/06/29/on-the-ushahidi-plugin-system/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>For anyone just interested in playing around and aren&#39;t up to doing it on their own server, you can try out our new cloud-based service: <a href="http://www.crowdmap.com" target="_blank">www.crowdmap.com</a> which is in beta as of this week.</div>
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</div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></span></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><div>On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:35 AM, David Mugo wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">I agree with Dennis, Ushahidi has made very good use of the Google Maps API and already works with SMS and Twitter, the whole point of Open Source is to take up such and build it to suit specific needs. However, Ushahidi is built on a framework which means you have to stick to this specific framework on any extensions of the code (For best practice).<br>

<br>This is a very interesting project, am interested in working on it, is it open?<br><br>David.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Erik Hersman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:erik@zungu.com" target="_blank">erik@zungu.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Additional features can be quickly built and added int the Ushahidi platform using the new plugin architecture.<br>


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On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Dennis Kioko &lt;<a href="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmbuvi@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt; the implementation of the platform seems similar to ushahidi in several aspects. That would also be another line of thought, building  this on top of ushahidi and then coding the additional functionality not provided by ushahidi, especially responding to user SMS.<br>


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