People

Currently Active as Developers

Andrew Turner
Andrew is one of the lead developers of Vote Report, and he is taking a lead on getting our backend into order. In particular currently the Solr Nutch Lucene stack.

Gabriele Sani
Markup and CSS imrpovements to the sweeper UI.

Chris Blow
Improving the sweeper UI design; HTML and CSS.

Anselm Hook
Anselm will be installing a Carrot interface on the Swift data.

Active as Advisors or Managers

Kaushal Jhalla
partnerships and project management.

Patrick Meier
HHI, Ushahidi – providing general input, see this blog post on Swift River’s methodology, for example. One of our leading articulators.

Erik Hersman
Co-Founder of Ushahidi. Strategy and Ushahidi integration.

Sean Gourley
of Oxford/Younoodle/TED; strategy around the analytics engine.

Ka-ping Yee
of The Katrina People Finder Interchange Format; advisor about any number of things.

Ed Bice
of Meedan, a nonprofit dedicated to international understanding, translation, and media analytics.

Israel Kloss
Founder, Cell Alert. Yahoo Pipes & Meta-RSS Integrator/Contributor for Cell Alert and Swift River.

David Gutelius
Co-Founder of Ishtirak. Strategy and technical design, field deployment projects in Middle East and Africa.