Hi folks, Happy Friday/Saturday:<br><br><b>Here are some quick updates:<br></b><br><b>Deployments of the Week:</b><br><b>last week:</b>  <a href="http://www.ipaidabribe.org.zw/">I Paid a Bribe  </a><br><b>This week</b>: All of the <a href="http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy-in-maps/">Hurricane Sandy maps </a>(those who did full -fledged ones and those who did mass scale projects). Big lessons learned...some re-learned<br>

<br><br><b>Community news:</b><br>We are proud to announce our <a href="https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Community+Leaders">Community Leaders</a>. These folks lead Ushahidi around the work in a number of ways. 
Here&#39;s to great work! And, thank you all!   <br><br>More community leaders will be announced in the coming months. <br><br><b>Tech headlines:</b><br><br>Super excited to release code to connect Ushahidi and Swift River. Give it a whirl:<br>

<p><a href="https://github.com/ushahidi/swiftriver-plugin-ushahidi" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Swiftriver Plugin for Ushahidi</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/ushahidi/ushahidi-plugin-swiftriver" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Ushahidi Plugin for SwiftRiver</a></p><br>Seth Kigen for master coding and Robert Buckley for helping test. Seth has released a <a href="https://github.com/kigen/Ushahidi-plugin-wms" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">WMS Layers plugin</a>, It supports Ushahidi versions 2.5/2.6, not crowdmap yet.<br>

<br>The recording for the <a href="http://ushahidi.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/community_calls/community-2012-10-22.mp3">Last Community Developer call </a>is available<br> <br><br><b>Events</b><br>Our friends at <a href="http://crisiscommons.org/2012/10/30/sandycrisiscamp/" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Geeks without Bounds and CrisisCommons are holding Hackathon events throughout the weekend</a>. If you are US-based, maybe you can join in. There may be questions on the Ushahidi community developer chat. Maybe lent a hand virtually?  <br>

<br><b>Upcoming meetups:</b><br><p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Ushahidi-Community/events/88090422/" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Brasilia, Brazil (Casual Meet-up)</a>: November 6, 2012<br>
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/Ushahidi-Community/events/88046302/" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">London, UK (Casual Meet-up)</a>: November 12, 2012</p>




<p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Ushahidi-Community/events/88096762/" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Wellington, NZ (Casual Meet-up)</a>: November 20, 2012</p><a href="https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Community+Meetings">Community Developer Tech Call - November 26/27, 2012</a><br>

<b><br>More in the weekly:<br></b><br><a href="https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Weekly+28+-+October+18+-+23%2C+2012">https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Weekly+28+-+October+18+-+23%2C+2012</a><br><br><a href="https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Weekly+29+-+October+24+-+30%2C+2012">https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Weekly+29+-+October+24+-+30%2C+2012</a><br>

<br>Happy weekend,<br><br>Heather<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Heather Leson<br>Director of Community Engagement<br><b>Ushahidi</b><br><a href="mailto:hleson@..." target="_blank">hleson@...</a><br><a href="http://www.ushahidi.com" target="_blank">www.ushahidi.com</a><br>

@heatherleson<br><br>