Are you an Android developer? Want to take and finish already started project to bring Hitchwiki Maps on Android? https://github.com/mch0lic/hitchwiki-android
See also already published Symbian version: http://hitchwiki.org/maps/mobile/ — and source for it: https://github.com/mch0lic/hitchwiki-symbian
We’re going to have small Hitchwiki hackathon at Guaka’s place in Brussels this weekend. On our todo list:
Join us if you wish!
Today I improved little bit of Philipp’s rating functionality for countries on wiki pages, such as Spain. In future I want to show this nice little widget over Maps when you click on country bubble.
After we’ve gathered good set of data, we can start making pretty cool looking statistics about world’s hithability, such as this map.
It’s 3 of us here now and we’re just doing little bit of this and that.
Our plan is to work mostly on Hitchwiki and BeWelcome.org
On Hitchwiki we’ve got such things on our todo list.
So far we’ve nailed:
Happy hacking everyone!
BXL hackathon has now started – and you can participate as well!
Added new theme to choose from; Twenty twelve by WordPress Team.
Hitchwiki Community has moved! But not far away.
Old address was hitchwiki.org/community/ and new one is, tadaa: hitchwiki.org.
From now on you can access whole of Hitchwiki community from the very frontpage. Blogs also moved to new addresses. If your blog address before was hitchwiki.org/community/awesometravelblog/ — it’s now just hitchwiki.org/awesometravelblog/.
This is a step towards more unified Hitchwiki site, where you don’t wouldn’t get lost between community, wiki and maps.
Some quickfacts:
If any problems, let me know!
Julian sent a message about making a hospex index under Hitchwiki Community:
On 20.8.2012, at 13.55, sitarane**** wrote:
YoI just checked that there is a “location” field on the hw buddypress profiles. Now, this is something that could be leveraged to turn hw buddypress into an workable hospex platform.
Now, the field seems to be a text field. For this to work, we need it to be a geo field, and to have a page to display profiles in one given location, or nearby. That’s stuff I can do on drupal, but it can’t be too hard on wordpress.
Also “location” is a bit ambiguous for hhers. “Home” would be more like it.
Now, this is very good idea. There’s already a text field “location” under community profiles. It wouldn’t be big trick to make hospex search tool already with this data.
I’ve got more plans concerning buddypress. My grande todo/wish list right now with Hitchwiki is something like this:
So after these steps we could have all the hitchhikers shown on the map (with opt out/in). Al of course search people by location and links to bewelcome/couchsurfing profiles.
Also I’ve already done some tests with bringing users current locations to the maps. Especially nice when I get hitchwiki maps for mobile done, since the data will be from the road and really accurate.
Bring in more geolocation ideas! And if you know how to program with PHP, you’re most welcome to help.
PS. How about a hitchwiki meetup during the winter somewhere where it’s warm? I kinda fancy going back to Granada (Spain) this winter for a month or two. Or France or Italy or somewhere. If you want to rent a room for meh, send me a message.
I updated “location” field at profiles into a “city” field. I’ll add country dropdown a bit later.
I just got done a massive Hitchwiki Community upgrade. New WordPress with new BuddyPress.
We use our custom login methods for logging users in with their MediaWiki logins and our old plugin didn’t work after upgrading WordPress. After some hacking, it’s working again smoothly. In future user’s will be logged in automaticly if they’re already logged in MediaWiki.
More over, this blog will serve as a log about everything we do under the hood. Geeky stuff we don’t want to put in our main new page.
