Awesome post Daniel, for me it's been really great to watch PPS grow over the last couple of years.

I'm really inspired by your approach to civic engagement and it's so cool you guys are getting your programs done with Ushahidi.

I think of placemaking as a crisis prevention strategy and an inversion the typical Ushahidi deployment. All the work goes in before the crisis strikes, not in a big rush afterward. PPS makes it easy to see how Ushahidi can have an important role in urban planning, environmental justice, crime and other problems of the modern city — and it provides a model for how these projects can work over longer periods, rather than just a frenzy of volunteer work after a big disaster.

... would be great if we can help move features upstream as plugins, or perhaps repackage a new theme from some of your awesome front-end work.

Cheers
c




On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Daniel Latorre wrote:

Hi all, here's a post about how we've been using Ushahidi in the Digital Placemaking work here at PPS.org.  After much work, mostly heads down it feels good to start to look up and around and share notes like this.

http://www.pps.org/blog/digital-placemaking-authentic-civic-engagement/

We link to the source code, which is also here (2.1 flavor):
https://github.com/rmarianski/pps-ushahidi
Big thanks got to our programmer and Rob Marianski, and Josh Kent our Creative Director.

We made and old school fork, but in our next larger project we're going to re-code and bring it into being a branch.

Any and all comments & questions welcome!

Cheers,
Daniel

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