Peace Geeks is a Vancouver-based non-profit organization that aims to develop the technology, communications and management capacities of non-profit organizations working on the promotion of peace, accountability and human rights through remote, volunteer-based project teams.
We are seeking volunteers to help us develop a new website for a Cairo-based non-profit organization named HarassMap, which aims to end the social acceptability of sexual harassment in Egypt - an issue that has reached epidemic proportions.
The current site - found at www.harassmap.org - is a non-integrated website based on two open source platforms: WordPress and an SMS-populated crisis mapping tool called Ushahidi. The current site has many problems including that:
- it does not handle multiple languages well
- the designs for the two platforms are different, with the WordPress version having both language versions side by side
- the site prioritizes English (left-to-right) over Arabic (right-to-left) layout
- the home page does not make key resources and information available, nor does it make it easy for users to respond to key calls-to-action
- The Ushahidi makes it impossible to display any robust content from the home page
Peace Geeks has worked with HarassMap for the last several months in order to establish a project scope and needs assessment to help govern the project that address the issues above as well as other key issues.
We are currently seeking 2-3 volunteer Drupal/ PHP developers and (depending on skills) a designer to help develop and deliver this project. If you are interested in volunteering on this project or learning more about it, please send an email to renee@peacegeeks.org
Comments
Kamagra
The acceptability of sexual harassment is not common in Egypt, it is now almost everywhere. I have seen people who come to the audition after taking kamagra or viagra to show their boner in public. Why? I think people are socially not responsible and just believe in hooking women at any point.
Ushahidi
If you're still interested I'm working to make a module to port Ushahidi to Drupal. This way the core report-receiving functionality will be all be made by this module and the rest can be done with many great Drupal modules.