Join the Sahana Software Foundation for SahanaCamp LA to be held on October 24-25 at the City of Los Angeles’ Emergency Operations Center Media Center Conference Room. SahanaCamp LA is a free 2-day program designed 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.
During SahanaCamp LA , we will be using our Sahana Eden Open Source Emergency Management Platform to explore solutions for the Los Angeles region, including needs for: volunteer management, donations management, registering organizations, asset management, inventory management, request management, project tracking and assessments.
Registration Information: Space is limited to 30 persons. If you are interested in attending please register soon. Additional program information and registration instructions are available at the registration site. Selected participants will be notified by October 14th.
AGENDA
SahanaCamp LA workshop is broken down into two sessions:
Using Sahana Software Solutions, Monday, October 24: 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
In this session we will demonstrate a number of different solutions with Sahana Software, address some of the challenges of implementing technology solutions for Emergency Management and discuss how Sahana could be used as a solution in in you organization. This session is aimed at a general audience including: Emergency Managers, Volunteer Managers, IT Professionals, Technology Consultants, Computer Programmers, Academics and Students.
Developing Sahana Software Solutions for your Organization, Monday, October 24: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm & Tuesday, October 25: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
In this session we will show participants how they can develop their own solutions using the Sahana Eden Open Source Emergency Management Platform. We will help participants set up their own development environment and participants will get hands on experience in how Sahana Eden can be easily customized through its Rapid Application Framework to provide functionality for: automatic CRUD form generation, mapping, SMS messaging, data import and export, and multi-language support. This part of the program is aimed at a more technical audience with some experience in computer programming.
Sponsors
SahanaCamp LA is a program of the Sahana Software Foundation. It is made possible through the generous sponsorship of the following organizations:
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The facilities for SahanaCamp LA are being provided by:
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Hi! I wish I could join the Sahana camp but I’ve only learned about it last week and I’m from the Philippines. I will be working soon for the Philippine Red Cross and I want to learn how to use Sahana effectively for disaster management operations. I believe this software can really help us manage our team here.
Will the camp be recorded on video? Is there a way to get a copy of the video through your website? I really want to learn how to use the software and I’m also excited with the coming of Mayon.
Thanks.
Pinky
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Hi Pinky–
I’m really glad you’re excited about learning about Sahana software. While we are not streaming SahanaCamp LA, we are going to be recording some of the sessions and they will be made available on our website soon. Also, all of the presentations and materials used during the SahanaCamp will be available next week on our slideshare site at http://slideshare.net/sahanafoss.
We have just completed a Sahana Eden Essential Guide as part of the Google Documentation Summit. You can access the guide here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/.
We also are hoping to hold several more SahanaCamps in the next year at different locations around the world. We’ll make sure to announce them far in advance.
Keep watching our website for more news and information to help support organizations wishing to deploy Sahana Software.
Best regards,
Mark