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.
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SahanaCamp LA

SahanaCamp LA was Oct. 24-25 - a free 2-day program that provided 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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Making Information Universal

Enabling relevant sharing of information across organizations, connecting donors, volunteers, NGOs, and government organizations, enabling them to operate as one.


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Reconnecting Missing Persons

Utilize our open source software to reunite separated families through registering missing and found persons.


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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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January 25th, 2012

Sahana High School

by Michael Howden || (0)

For the second year, the Sahana Software Foundation has participated in the Google Code-In (GCI) Program which gives pre-university students the chance to get involved in open source projects. I was Sahana’s Administrator for this program and am incredibly happy with how well the program went for us. Out of the 208 tasks that we [Read the Rest...]

January 5th, 2012

Sahana Eden used for Chilean wildfire response

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

The Sahana Software Foundation’s Eden software, as part of IBM’s Smarter Command Center, is currently being used by the Chilean Red Cross (Cruz Roja) for the response to recent wildfires in Southern Chile. The fires, mainly affecting the communities of Florida and Quillón in the Nuble province of the Bio Bio region of Chile, have left one person dead, [Read the Rest...]

December 13th, 2011

Sahana Eden CERT Solution Takes 1st Place and RHOKs Austin

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

The Sahana community was well represented at another Random Hacks of Kindness (RHOK) event again this year, and had the honor of winning first place at the RHOK 2011 Austin (Texas, USA) event.  This year’s RHOK saw 30 cities world wide participating.  The Sahana Software Foundation has been a RHOK participant since it began in 2009, and [Read the Rest...]

November 15th, 2011

Sahana Software Foundation a Participating Organization for the 2011-12 Google Code-In

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

The Sahana Software Foundation has been selected as one of a very select number of participating organization for the 2011-12 Google Code-In.  The Google Code-In is a contest for pre-university students to introduce them to all of the things that go into a successful open source project: code, documentation, outreach, quality assurance, research, training, translation [Read the Rest...]

October 29th, 2011

Report on SahanaCamp LA

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

SahanaCamp LA was held at the City of Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center on October 24-25 2011. SahanaCamp™ is a program of the Sahana Software Foundation. The SahanaCamp™ program provides participants with: an understanding of how Sahana software can help manage information before, during and after disasters; a practical technical workshop to provide instruction in how [Read the Rest...]

October 27th, 2011

Reflections on the GSoC Mentor Summit 2011

by Shikhar Kohli || (0)

The Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit was on the 22nd and 23rd of October at Google’s Mountain View campus. The Mentor Summit this year saw a much larger attendance than any previous Mentor Summits.  Michael Howden, Fran Boon, Dominic Konig, Pat Tressel and Shikhar Kohli all represented the Sahana Software Foundation at the Mentor [Read the Rest...]

October 24th, 2011

Sahana Eden Essential Guide Produced at Google Doc Sprint

by Shikhar Kohli || (0)

We know that documentation is important to help people use all Sahana software products. Unfortunately our developers are usually too focussed on coding and haven’t shown enough love and attention to documentation. As the software has grown, it has become essential to have information that can be used by individuals new to the project to [Read the Rest...]

October 19th, 2011

Those fateful 3 months and what the future holds – From the experience of a Sahana GSoCer

by Ramindu Deshapriya || (2)

If you are a Sri Lankan involved in the field of Information Technology, it is inevitable that you will someday hear about, and be inspired by, the Sahana project. It is renowned for being a community software project that was born in Sri Lanka and has now moved out in to the world, unifying developers [Read the Rest...]

October 3rd, 2011

HFOSS at the Open World Forum: Sahana á Paris

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

The 4th Open World Forum (OWF) was held in Paris on September 24-26.  Last year, I had the honor of chairing a small inaugural panel on the use of Free/Libre Open Source Software Against Crisis; this year, with the support of OWF Co-President Louis Montagne, HFOSS was expanded into a half-day track, organized by Dave Neary [Read the Rest...]

September 20th, 2011

The 2011 Sahana Google Summer of Code Wrap-Up: The Best Summer Ever!

by Mark Prutsalis || (0)

Another summer is over.  And what a great summer it was.   Countless hours at the beach and pool with the kids; great free concerts in the park…. but this post is supposed to be a wrap up about Sahana’s 2011 Google Summer of Code Program, so let’s get to that.  It was, quite simply [Read the Rest...]

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