Most of what has been done since Thursday has been looking into the history of rapidSMS and trying to get any leads into how we can contribute to the project. The project has only been around since 2008—although no one has a definitive date as to when its inception actually began. It was not too hard to find out that graduate students from Columbia University developed this with funding provided by UNICEF. The first use of the rapidSMS framework was (and is still in use) in the Malaw project and since then, rapidSMS has been used in projects encompassing six different countries!
The most challenging problem to date is to determine exactly what or where we can contribute to this project. Since it is a framework, there is the option of building something that uses it—but after a few weeks with Ryzom last semester, that is a scary thought. We did get an interesting response from a member of the rapidSMS Google group that sounds promising…so we’ll struggle with this problem some more.
In the meantime I thought that I’d get the source and attempt to build the code on my box; however, I hit a snag when I booted back into ubuntu and was reminded that (for some unknown reason) the ubuntu wireless drivers will not allow me to connect to my apartment's router. It works fine at school, so instead of downloading in windows and attempting to shift from ubuntu to windows and back again, I'll just wait until tomorrow when I can work on it at school.
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