A platform to support refugees from Ukraine

[mariha]

Meta issue that organizes items needed for a platform for people leaving Ukraine at the moment.
Feel free to edit as you see the need.

An instance of fedi-trustroots for the purpose is deployed to https://refugees.openHospitality.network

People who have access to OHN accounts, if you needed to contact them: wiki

Consider adding your @ name if you are working on sth to avoid duplicating each other's work.

MVP

Once done, we (@mariha) will work with main refugees helping NGOs in Poland to unload them and have people registered / find a place to stay here instead of by contacting them.

• A host is able to register with their accommodation

  • Problem: people can not register because verification emails are not delivered #93
  • Problem: verification emails mention Trustroots #94

• A refugee is able to search for hosts and message/contact them

  • Filter by languages spoken
  • Filter by circle/ kind of help needed
  • Filter by number of people

• The website looks appropriate to what it does - dedicated for refugees rather then travellers

  • domain - refugees.openHospitality.network
  • registration/how-it-works page - text, design and implementation
  • Icons for Refugees Welcome #95
  • possibly other places - Problem: Trustroots branding is all over the page #16

At this point we can broadcast info about the platform

Beyond MVP

• texts translations, at a minimum to Ukrainian, Polish and Russian

  • set up translations server
  • translate to Ukrainian
  • translate to Russian
  • translate to German
  • translate to Romanian

• reuse circles for type of help being offered: accommodation, legal help, translations, …

  • (work with NGOs to define best categories)
    • MapaGoscinnosci.pl form
    • Salam Lab form
    • Refugees Welcome form
    • Obszary działań in uchodzcy.info map
  • define them in the config

• add NGOs as Points of Interest on a dedicated layer in OpenStreetMap - accessible for everyone, without logging in, displayed in our app

  • experiment with what makes sense and how to add points
  • request data about organizations - or use data from uchodzcy.info map
  • add that data to OSM or
  • train / document how to add new org to the map
  • document + possibly help NGOs embed OSM map with that layer on, on their web pages

• move data from the pad to the platform

• move data from the Hospitality Map to the platform

• maybe move data from Refugees Welcome to the platform (currently hosts are not displayed)

To consider:

• how much work would it be?
  • support email
• what else needs to be done for people to sign up?
• what if many people register? What are the scalability limits?
• devops
  • to have monitoring? grafana, google analytics, ...
  • to deploy changes easily?
  • to work with TR upstream repo?
  • master branch autodeployed to staging
• other:
  • fediverse changes (Lennart & Chagai) - cors etc - move to a branch?
  • domain name
  • SparkPost plans - when free plan is exceeded mails will be silently not-sent
• anything else?

[mariha]

a list from Mikael what to do