Sahana Software Foundation

Author: Mark Prutsalis

  • Sahana Software Foundation receives $10,000 Catalyst Grant from IBM

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    The Sahana Software Foundation has received a $10,000 Catalyst Grant from IBM. This grant is a direct extension of IBM’s Celebration of Service contribution to the Sahana Software Foundation that provided several translations of Sahana Eden using IBM’s n.Fluent system. The money is to be put towards delivering one or more SahanaCamps in Latin America…

  • Sahana’s GSOC Projects at the Mid-Terms – Exciting Progress

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    Last week marked the mid-term evaluations for this year’s Google Summer of Code.   All six students we are mentoring this year passed their mid-terms and are making great progress towards successfully completing their summer internship with the Sahana Software Foundation.   As part of their mid-term evaluation, all of our students created screencasts demonstrating…

  • IBMers Contribute to SSF as part of IBM Centennial Celebration of Service

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    This year marks IBM’s Centennial and as part of a year-long Celebration of Service, the civic-minded company has been organizing volunteer contributions of IBMers to projects in the communities where they live with a specific focus on a Day of Service on June 15th – the day before the centennial of their founding. As part…

  • Update: Volunteer Sahana Japan Team Publicly Launches Relief Site

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    The Volunteer Sahana Japan Team publicly launches disaster relief information site at http://sahana.jp on May 31, 2011 to register requests for assistance and information intended for use by local government and volunteer organizations that are taking part in the response and recovery efforts.  The site includes information on the location of shelters, volunteer activities, soup kitchens,…

  • Vesuvius 0.9.1 Released

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    Numerous bug fixes, search optimizations, and the lot have gone into this new release of Agasti. The DB schema has changed quite dramatically since 0.9.0, so, you would be better off starting out with a fresh one from /backups/vesuviusStarterDb_v091.sql. Download, enjoy, and report bugs if you encounter them!

  • Obrigado Lisbon! The Sahana Community Bonds over Bacalhau and the Port

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    I’m just back from six days in Lisbon, Portugal for the Sahana Community Bar Camp, Annual Meeting, SahanaCamp@ISCRAM Disaster Workshop and Simulation, and Interoperability Workshop as part of the 8th ISCRAM Conference, as well as a few days of sightseeing and wholly re-energized about our future. The main theme of the weekend’s events was Community.…

  • Annual Community Meeting at ISCRAM: BarCamp, Disaster Simulation Workshop and More

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    We’re gearing up for our annual community wide gathering at the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM). Our focus for our time in Portugal will be planning the future course of Sahana: a review of our successes, a discussion of our lessons learned and formation of a concrete action plan to move…

  • Sahana and the UN’s Disaster Relief 2.0 Report

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    The UN Foundation’s latest report, Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies, has a great deal of quality data and information for the crisis preparedness community, but there are a few key takeaways with particular significance for the Sahana community. If you haven’t read the report in its entirety, take a…

  • Help Sahana Help Japan

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    The Sahana Software Foundation is currently responding to the situation in the aftermath of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami affecting Japan. Our hearts are with the thousands affected by this terrible tragedy. Sahana software was born out of the experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka, and many in our community…

  • Developer News: New Software Release – Sahana Agasti v 0.9 (Vesuivius)

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    With the first release of the Vesuvius branch of Sahana Agasti, we’ve added some awesome new features. Vesuvius provides a sophisticated missing and found persons registry that interfaces with Google Person Finder but with a user interface that simplifies searching and filtering of records. Vesuvius also provides hooks for tying into a hospital administration and…