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Developer Information
We are in the early stages of developing the Ushahidi Engine as a free and open source platform. The core team is made up of developers from around the world, but especially Africa. The constraints and usage of technology in Africa provide the best testing ground for Ushahidi, and we’ve been extremely happy with the amount of input that has come from this region.

If you would like to take part, we have a complete development environment, where we a€™re working on many features, plugins and extensions to the system, some of them listed below:

• Timeline and Map work
• FrontlineSMS integration and extension
• Geocoding Accuracy
• Bayesian Modeling: for use in automatic classification (finding the right category) of reports
• Sahana integration
• Heatmapping: Depending upon the elevation view of the map, heatmapping (polygons) will be used instead of point data
• News and Incident Clustering: figure out how to cluster both citizen reports and mainstream news reports.
• Charts and Graphs: Beyond mapping and timelines, data should be able to be seen in charts and graphs
• Authentication: Background credibility scores based on past information/reports sent in by individuals. Ability to manually set this in the admin panel.

If you are interested in helping with Ushahidi in any way, feel free to contact us, or head on over to the developer wiki to start looking at our documentation.