Author: Estève Giraud

It is summer time again, and time for Google Summer of Code™. Since Monday June 17, 2013, 11 students started coding for 12 weeks to improve two Sahana capabilities and develop new features. As introduced by Mark on May 27th on Sahana’s website, six students will work on Sahana Vesuvius and five on Sahana Eden.…

The Sahana Community is dedicated to supporting organizations in their mission to prepare and respond to disasters to save lives. Because we care, we particularly enjoy reading comments – of direct users, the broader humanitarian community or just curious people – about what we do and how we do it. Recently, we read an article…

To conclude our blog post series about the Sahana Internship Program, we interviewed Mark Prutsalis, CEO of the Sahana Software Foundation, and asked him to share his vision for Sahana’s future and the strategic role of its internship program. Estève Giraud: Hello Mark. Thank you for your time! Could you tell us a little bit about your…

If you’ve been following the Sahana blog, you’ve seen a number of posts recently on how Sahana has been used to help victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York, United States and beyond.  In an effort to learn more about Sahana’s impact in the field, we asked Devin Balkind from the Occupy Sandy Team to…

You may recall our recent post on Sahana’s internship program, where we announced that the community was welcoming six contributors into the fold to work on communications, bug fixes and new features for Sahana. We wanted to share a bit about each of our interns and the work they’re doing for Sahana, so without further…

To round out its outreach activities for 2012, the Sahana Software Foundation has launched its first internship program! More than 80 applications were received and six students or recent graduates – double the number originally conceived – were chosen out of them to help develop Sahana’s Eden software, and increase the awareness of Sahana with…