RHoK 2

RHoK is a lot of things: a Hack-a-Thon, a community building event, and a chance to bring “software engineers together with disaster risk management experts to identify critical global challenges, and develop software to respond to them.” (from http://www.rhok.org/about/what-is-random-hacks-of-kindness/ ,which has tons of information about what RHoK is). RHoK has honoured Sahana by including us in RHoK #2 and give us a chance to build out our communities as well as our applications.

Post-event we can use this space to share our thoughts, feelings, take-aways, cool new tricks, and ideas for next time.

“Problem Definitions” are the core of RHoK. Experts in Emergency Management as well as project & software experts work together to come up with 'problems'; challenges that Emergency Managers face on the ground in a real emergency. They then translate those problems into challenges for developers to solve through technology.

Some challenges are selected as “featured hacks” and become the competition at the core of RHoK. (Did we mention there are prizes?)

The Problem Definitions for RHoK #2 are listed here: http://wiki.rhok.org/Category:Problem_Definitions_RHoK2.0

Some are Sahana-specific. Some are:

• Person Finder: http://wiki.rhok.org/Person_Finder - Mentions Sahana in the reference links - though a bit out-dated
• Hospital Status Management: http://wiki.rhok.org/Hospital_Status_Management - To improve the functionality of and enable integration and interoperability between the Sahana Eden Hospital Management System application (HMS) and Google Resource Finder.
• Symfony Scalability Enhancements: http://wiki.rhok.org/Sahana_Agasti_Symfony_Scalability_Enhancements - Agasti Mayon performance enhancement
• Module Manager: http://wiki.rhok.org/Sahana_Agasti_Module_Management - Agasti Mayon module management frontend and dependency checker
• Eden Offline Mapping: http://wiki.rhok.org/Sahana_Eden_Offline_Mapping - Provide a simple way for NGO field workers to share GPS data amongst themselves, their Headquarters, and other agencies.
• System Configuration Control Panel: http://wiki.rhok.org/Sahana_Agasti_Draw_Affected_Disaster_Area_and_Adapt_Resources - Agasti Mayon Configuration enhancement for higher customization
• Draw Affected Disaster Area and Adapt Resources: http://wiki.rhok.org/Sahana_Agasti_Draw_Affected_Disaster_Area_and_Adapt_Resources - Agasti Mayon Geo Poly draw feature to allow resource distribution with adjustment for affected areas

A list of the planned participants (according to this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LH-FhX5ZWZhi5Nqh18gUUeRiiRPFu9lxZfkFQe_rMpY/edit?hl=en)

Please add yourself if you'll be joining us.