Author: Mark Prutsalis
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Disaster Relief in my Home Town
I want to apologize most heartily for the delay in communicating both publicly and with the Sahana community about what has been going on here and what the Sahana Software Foundation has been doing to help. This is important too. Let me share some thoughts and my experiences with you: I live in Park Slope,…
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SSF supports Hurricane Sandy response in NYC
The Sahana Software Foundation is assisting the City of New York in its use of Sahana software to manage its response to Hurricane Sandy. The City’s Office of Emergency Management has been relying on Sahana software for its shelter management and registration programs since 2007. We are currently assisting the City University of New York…
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Sahana Launches EUROSHA Humanitarian Data Site
The Sahana Software Foundation has partnered with France Volontaires, Groupe URD, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and other European humanitarian organizations on a pilot project sponsored by the EU under the newly adopted EU Aid Volunteers initiative. The objective of the EUROSHA pilot project (for “EURopean Open Source Humanitarian Aid”) is to train and deploy a…
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Code Like A Girl Again on October 6 with Sahana Eden!
Join the Sahana Software Foundation for this year’s Grace Hopper Open Source Day on October 6 in Baltimore, Maryland. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is the largest professional conference to support the research and career interests of women in computing. And this year’s Open Source Day at the conclusion of the conference…
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Request for Information Issued
To help us identify resources that are available to work on projects for the Sahana Software Foundation, we have issued an open Request for Information (RFI) to assist us in compiling a list of companies and individuals who might be qualified, available and interested to execute on upcoming projects for government agencies and humanitarian organizations.
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Sahana joins OASIS
The Sahana Software Foundation has joined OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems) – a not for profit consortium that drives the development and advancement of open data standards. In particular, OASIS is the home of the Emergency Data Exchange Language – or EDXL – suite of open data standards that includes…
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Sahana presented to World Conference on Disaster Management
Yesterday morning, I had the honor of speaking to the 22nd World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM) in Toronto on the work of the Sahana Software Foundation. WCDM is one of the largest annual conferences in the world focused on disaster and emergency management. This year’s conference was attended by over 1,000 persons from government and…
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Sahana Product Development Committee Established
Today, the Sahana Software Foundation Board of Directors merged the governance structures of its two technical projects – Sahana Agasti and Sahana Eden. The new Sahana Product Development Committee will be responsible for governing and overseeing the development of all existing Sahana products – Sahana Eden, Sahana Mayon, Sahana Vesuvius and Sahana Kilauea. The proposal…
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SSF 2012 Annual Meeting
The Sahana Software Foundation held its Annual Meeting over Memorial Day Weekend from May 26-28, 2012, at multiple venues in New York City. The main theme of the weekend long event was “A Shared Vision” and was well attended by the Sahana Software Foundation’s Directors, Members, and contributors, including two 2012 Google Summer of Code™…
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SSF 2011 Annual Report
The Sahana Software Foundation’s 2011 Annual Report has been published, which summarizes the highlights of our activities during the year. You can view the Annual Report here or download a copy from our wiki or slideshare account. SSF 2011 Annual Report View more documents from Sahana Software Foundation