Author: Mark Prutsalis
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SSF an OSI Affiliate
The Sahana Software Foundation has joined the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as an Affiliate Member. OSI is the keeper of the Open Source Definition, and certifies and approves open source licenses. The Sahana Software Foundation is committed to the principles of OSI, and decided to only use OSI-approved licenses for our products. OSI announced the Affiliate program in February of this year. Affiliates will…
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SahanaCamp NYC held May 22-25, 2012
The Sahana Software Foundation’s SahanaCamp™ NYC was 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 was a free four-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…
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Attend SahanaCamp™ NYC May 22-25, 2012
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…
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Sahana Accepts Seven for GSOC 2012
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…
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Sahana Software Foundation Announces 2012 Annual Meeting
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…
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Sahana Vesuvius 0.9.2 Released
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…
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Sahanathon launches Sahana Sunflower Community Portal
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…
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Welcome to Sahana’s 2012 Google Summer of Code
We are thrilled to once again be named a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code. We have had a highly successful history mentoring students each summer since 2006, and are looking forward to another summer of working with GSOC interns to improve our products. We have a deep pool of experienced mentors this…
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Sahanathon Virtual Code Sprint March 23-25, 2012
The Sahana Software Foundation invites its community to participate in a virtual weekend long code sprint to work on setting up Sahana Eden for use by the Foundation for coordinating its activities, members and contributors. The site will be used for such things as maintaining profiles of members and contributors, tracking assignments and volunteer roles,…
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Sahana Software Foundation Seeks Sponsors for 2012 Annual Meeting and SahanaCamp NYC
The Sahana Software Foundation is seeking sponsorship for our 2012 Annual Meeting and a SahanaCamp™ this coming May in New York City. Sahana software is supported by a global virtual and volunteer community of contributors from diverse backgrounds – emergency managers, open source software developers, international relief agency staff, academic researchers, public health professionals, technology…