The Sahana Software Foundation is dedicated to the mission of saving lives by providing information management solutions that enable organizations and communities to better prepare for and respond to disasters.
Sahana Eden Chair & GSOC mentor Fran Boon with former GSOC students (and current mentors) Praneeth Bodduluri and Robby O'Connor at the 2011 SSF Annual Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal

Sahana’s 2012 GSOC Program

The Sahana Software Foundation is a mentoring organization for GSOC 2012 Learn More
2011 SSF Annual Meeting

2012 Annual Meeting

The Sahana Software Foundation is holding its 2012 Annual Meeting this coming May 26-28 in New York City. Learn More
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SahanaCamps

SahanaCamp™ is a free 2- to 4-day program to provide individuals and organizations with an understanding of the needs for managing information in response to disasters paired with a practical technical workshop to provide instruction in how Sahana Software can be deployed within and across organizations.

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Students configuring Sahana on IBM-donated laptops in Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 2005

Open source=open community

A global free and open source software project supported by hundreds of volunteer contributors from dozens of countries and national and local authorities and relief agencies.


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Relief is Clear

Tracking organizations and programs responding to the disaster, including the coverage and balance in the distribution of aid, providing transparency in the response effort.


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Sahana Eden Essential Guide

The Sahana Eden Essential Guide was written for decision makers looking for an appropriate solution for disaster management, those who are deploying Sahana Eden, and those who are extending Sahana Eden for more specialized solutions or want to contribute to the project. View online or order one today. A portion of the proceeds goes to the Sahana Software Foundation.

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May 10th, 2012

Sri Lanka case study using Sahana and Freedom Fone presented in UK

by Nuwan Waidyanatha || (0)

The LIRNEasia and Sarvodaya conducted feasibility study to integrate the Freedom Fone Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System with the Sahana Disaster Management System was presented at the Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC) technology fair. The congregation took place in London, UK, March 22 & 23. Brenda Burrell (Technical Director Freedom Fone), residing in Harare [Read the Rest...]

April 30th, 2012

Attend SahanaCamp™ NYC May 22-25, 2012

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

The Sahana Software Foundation’s SahanaCamp™ NYC will be held from May 22-25 in New York City at the Salvation Army of Greater New York’s Divisional Headquarters on 14th Street. SahanaCamp™ NYC is a free four-day program designed to provide individuals and organizations with an understanding of the needs for managing information in response to disasters [Read the Rest...]

April 23rd, 2012

Sahana Accepts Seven for GSOC 2012

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

The Sahana Software Foundation is proud to announce the seven recipients of Google Summer of Code™ internships with Sahana’s Eden and Vesuvius Projects. Competition for slots was extremely high this year.  We received a number of excellent proposals from several students who were already actively contributing code and ideas to the Sahana Software Foundation, who [Read the Rest...]

April 20th, 2012

Sahana Software Foundation Announces 2012 Annual Meeting

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

The Sahana Software Foundation today officially announced the dates and venue for its 2012 Annual Meeting of its Members and Directors.  The meeting will be held Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-28, 2012, at multiple venues (tba) in New York City, United States.  Additional information and announcements will be found on our Foundation wiki under Annual [Read the Rest...]

April 18th, 2012

Sahana Vesuvius 0.9.2 Released

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

Its been a little under a year since the last release of Vesuvius and there has been a lot of changes and new features added over this time period.  We wanted to push out a new release just before the onset of Google Summer of Code so that our students would have a better and [Read the Rest...]

March 27th, 2012

Sahanathon launches Sahana Sunflower Community Portal

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

Over the weekend of March 23-25, the Sahana Software Foundation held its first Sahanathon – a community event that provided an opportunity for contributors to work together on Sahana Eden.  The project we focused on was to set up Sahana Eden as a Community Portal, called The Sahana Sunflower. Basically, we’re (finally) eating our own dog [Read the Rest...]

February 7th, 2012

Sahana Eden moves to Github

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

The Sahana Eden project has moved its repository from Launchpad to Github. This decision was universally supported by the Eden community.  More information about this transition, resources and Instructions for developers to migrate to Git are available on the Git page on the Eden wiki.