Hey all,
The weekend is almost here and Random Hacks of Kindness is about to get
underway.
We've got three high-value featured problems we're trying to solve and
welcome any others in the community to meet up at their local RHoK event.
We'll be hacking away in Bangalore, Dublin, and San Francisco.
Here is a quick overview of what is coming up this weekend:
http://www.openmf.org/hacking-for-a-cause/
To track our progress and what we're up to, visit our Mifos-RHoK hackpad
at: https://hackpad.com/ep/group/-1x4XBWYOqBafM27VcXOT4s
Ed
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Ed Cable <[email protected]> wrote:
> Over the past year, we've been curious about participating in the global
> hackathon, Random Hacks of Kindness (http://www.rhok.org), but were
> hesitant to participate. During RHoK, thousands of volunteers across
> dozens of locations worldwide all commit to hacking together solutions to
> these problems throughout the weekend.
>
> This year we're diving in and hope to have some major successes as we
> partner with Social Coding 4 Good (http://socialcoding4good.org) and HP's
> Social
> Innovation<http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/social-innovation/social-responsibility.html>group
> to be one of five problems featured around the globe.
>
> During the global hackathon from Nov 30 to Dec 2, on top of all the
> ''random" volunteers that will work on our presented challenges - we'll
> have three dedicated teams of HP volunteers working on our project. Teams
> from San Francisco, Dublin, and Bangalore will work with leads from our
> community before (and after) the hackathon to build out solutions to the
> problems we've identified.
>
> The problems/challenges we're seeking solutions for during the hackathon
> center
> around
> mobile<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uM52FsXce3KbBUgdaT9RBOYzsvSvGP_rP6B_KbqzPoY/edit>
> and user-generated
> documents<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hL2kQWNhAWExXP9WoinjYeQmh31l32-mPfiD34RwvQY/edit>.
> On the mobile front, we're focusing on building a mobile app (primarily
> Android-based to enable offline capability) as well as enabling SMS
> communications with end users. For user generated-documents we're looking
> at building a module that allows end users to whip up "administrative
> documents" on the fly through a simple editor.
>
> There are 2 ways you can help. If you're a developer, specialist, or
> practitioner and nearby one of the 30+ local hackathons, you can attend the
> event. They're fun, lively, and we could use the input of both technical
> and non-technical participants. Here's the full list of events -
> http://www.rhok.org/events including locations like Kampala,
> Philadelphia, Bangalore, Pune, San Francisco, Nairobi, Cape Town, and
> Lusaka.
>
> Secondly we need you to provide the context in which these solutions will
> be used. These volunteers and developers can't build solutions if they
> don't know who they're trying to help out. We need your help in providing
> stories about how you'd use the mobile apps, SMS communications or document
> generator. We don't need detailed functional specs, more just narratives
> about how you'd use a mobile app, the processes you'd like to support, the
> situations in which you'd use the solution, etc.
>
> Our main problem definition for mobile is at:
> http://www.rhok.org/problems/going-last-mile-scaling-reach-financial-services-poor-making-mifos-x-mobile
>
> For the user-generated documents, see:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hL2kQWNhAWExXP9WoinjYeQmh31l32-mPfiD34RwvQY/edit
>
> For the user-generated documents, you could help by listing out examples
> of documents you would like to be able to generate in Mifos.
>
> Please add them to this page:
> https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27754516
>
>
>
>
>
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