[UN Volunteer] Poverty and climate change program volunteer needed

Develop interactive website cum online database for an innovative program addressing poverty and climate change

GREEN HARMONY

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TASK

Trees for Credit’ is an innovative program developed and experimented by Green-Harmony, by integrating goals of poverty eradication and environmental protection. It supports Self Help Groups to start income generation activities by making credit available to them provided they plant and conserve a minimum number of trees.
Now we are planning to launch the program online with an interactive database, which facilitate tracking and monitoring outputs with an accountable and transparent system.

The trial run of the website is expected to be in March 2010.
We seek one or two volunteers, with expertises in developing data based websites.

Necessary inputs and information will be provided through email, skype or gmail talk.

Number of volunteers: 2

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Green Harmony is an India-based organization that initiates environmentally harmonious development programmes for most disadvantaged communities. Its new model not only improves tree cover but also provides financial incentives for micro enterprises. It envisages a combination of conditionality and financial incentive to promote tree plantation as well as income generation opportunities for the poor. For more details visit http://www.green-harmony.org/index_files/TFC.htm

OBJECTIVE

The work will contribute to the following objectives
1. Enhance tree cover and shade contributing to Environmental Sustainability
2. Contribute to carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change
3. Provide alternate livelihood for the poor, to reduce poverty

Region or country	India
Development topic	Environment Income generation and employment

REQUIREMENTS

- Knowledge and skills on interactive websites with database support
- Experience in developing interactive websites

Areas of expertise	Arts Computing
Languages	English
Hours per week	6-10
Duration in weeks	10

[Magento] when you upload product image and click save, it takes you back to admin login screen

Today I was changing some codes in Magento fashion shopping mall as usual, I got new tech support from my client. She was updating product pictures. After browsing a picture and uploading process, the system took her to the login screen. This disabled her to upload a picture at all.

My solution was so simple. Sometimes, magento is unstable when I uninstall some 3rd party add-on. There must be reason but it looks like no reason. For this case, I couldn't figure out even though I do step-by-step reinstall on uninstalled add-on I did recently. I don't know how to solve. ( People says it is Flash involved problem. My case was not that.) However, I thought it is a cookie problem.

Admin > System > configuration > web > Session Cookie Management

changed value in Cookie Lifetime set 3600. (Mine was 0 meaning unlimited. somehow this isn't working.)

Magically this solves. My headache is gone. Bam!!!

[UN Volunteer] Web design and development

If anybody interested in this position, let me know. AK

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Web design and development

FREEDOM FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL AND HEALTH REFORM

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TASK

The task involves designing and developing a website dedicated to Freedom Foundation's online volunteers to provide a platform for better collaboration with online volunteers and ensure that their contributions are recognised.

The volunteers will work as a team and their activities will be coordinated by Freedom Foundation's Design and IT development online volunteer coordinator. They will be provided with all the necessary support and their contributions will be acknowledged on the website and on Freedom Foundation's newsletter

Number of volunteers: 4

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Freedom Foundation will be implementing a number of new projects and would require as much hands as possible to ensure that we achieve our organisation's overall objectives and therefore will be recruiting quite a large number of online volunteers to assist over the internet. The website will provide a platform for effective collaboration between our organization and online volunteers.

OBJECTIVE

The outcome of this task is the effective collaboration of the Freedom Foundation for Social, Educational and Health Reform with online volunteers to ensure the achievement of the organization,s overall objective of enhancing social development by improving the lives of vulnerable and underprivileged men, women and children within our communities

Region or country	Nigeria
Development topic	Integration of marginalized groups

REQUIREMENTS

Experience in web design and/or development
Ability to work in a team

Areas of expertise	Arts Computing
Languages	English
Hours per week	6-10
Duration in weeks	4

When you are stuck in the middle of [ magento installation in WAMP environment.]

Today, I want to share this article for you and myself. Whenever I try to install Magento into my windows Vista WAMP server, I'm getting these errors but I am too stupid to write this down. Spending a couple of hours, I decided to do it. These are common error when I install Magento into my local windows machine.


Okay. Here's our guy.
Magento version 1.4.x with WAMP Server ver. 2.0 with Apache 2.2.11, PHP 5.3.0, mysql 5.1.36. in MS Windows Vista Home Premium Edition.


1. During installation, the screen is stuck with base URL validation problem.

Because this URL I just typed in is not valid in the real world, Magento is too smart to accept this value. Here's cure.

• Open {{magento installation directory}}/js/prototype/validation.js
• Find around 500th row, put comment mark or remove these expression.

['validate-url', 'Please enter a valid URL. Protocol is required (http://, https:// or ftp://)', function (v) {                return Validation.get('IsEmpty').test(v) || /^(http|https|ftp):\/\/(([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)(\.[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)+)(:(\d+))?\/?/i.test(v)}],

• Refresh installation screen, you will get green light to go.
• Undo what you modified in validation.js

2. Can't log in to admin panel after installation

Let's admit it that we're installing into Wamp server, not real server. 

• Open {{magento installation directory}}/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php
• find row 81-83, (remember my magento version is 1.4.1.1) and put comment like these.

//'domain'   => $cookie->getConfigDomain(),
//'secure'   => $cookie->isSecure(),
//'httponly' => $cookie->getHttponly()

Well, that's it. Finally, I got a good to go. I hope this help you little bit. AK

Upcoming projects for 2011

Hi folks.
I want to share this head-up today covering upcoming projects for 2011. I'm so excited with these internal projects assigned by EZnet Solutions' engineers. The programming platform varies as usual from Code Ignitor( CI) to Joomla. White most of our projects are driven by clients' requests, these guys are not from them but OURS! The reason? Simply we like it to make www-world beautiful!

Besides, AK, our senior officer is just falling in love with Code Ignitor (CI). He will be available with some projects with CI platform. I'm pretty sure he will write some articles up about CI this year. Okay. Here we go.

The upcoming projects are

• Los Angeles Korean Amateur Baseball League ( will host all Korean amateur baseball teams in Los Angeles Area, serving game stat, team summary, game schedule, sharing contacts ) 
• KTpage ( classfied AD for K-town )
• Fashion Magazine ( meta blog style)
• Manufacturing Process Monitor ( this is a killer application for small & medium size manufacturers like Los Angeles fashion enterprise with multi-country sites )
• iMentoring.org ( remote education platform )

Wow. 2011 will be busiest for us making good web sites. Peace!