Author: Mark Prutsalis
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Sahana’s Sixth Google Summer of Code ™
The Sahana Software Foundation is pleased to announce that six student developers will join our community for the summer thanks to Google’s Summer of Code Program (GSoC).* We would like to thank Google for their continued support of the Sahana Software Foundation and free and open source software through this program. While we would like…
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Sahana Software Foundation a 2011 Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization
The Sahana Software Foundation has been selected as a mentoring organization for the 2011 Google Summer of Code. We are thrilled to be selected again to participate in such a great program that helps bring new developers into open source projects. The Sahana Software Foundation has benefited greatly from participating in the Google Summer of…
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Sahana Eden 0.5.3 Released
Sahana Eden 0.5.3 has been released. This version contains enhancements made to the VOLunteer management and Hospital Management Systems; import/export stylesheets for EDXL-HAVE, GPX, ISM, and GeoJSON; a Tablecast draft; Japanese and Greek translations; and many reliability, database, CSS, S3XRC and GIS enhancements. Please see: Release Notes Windows Installer Web2Py Application
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Sahana a Mentoring Organization for the Google Code-In 2010
The Sahana Software Foundation has been named one of twenty mentoring organizations for the Google Code-In 2010. The Google Code-In is a Google contest to introduce pre-university students to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible. The contest begins on November 22, 2010. The Code-In is a very different program…
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SahanaCamp 1.2 in Vietnam November 2-5, 2010
SahanaCamp 1.2 will be held from November 2-5, 2010 in Hanoi, Vietnam, sponsored by IBM Vietnam SahanaCamp 1.2 is a 4 day event to show participants how information technology can help with Disaster Management through the Sahana Eden Open Source Disaster Management Platform. Sahana Eden has been deployed in numerous disasters including the 2010 Haiti…
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Sahana Response to Pakistan Floods
The Sahana Software Foundation has responded to the recent floods in Pakistan through providing a public portal of its Sahana Eden software. Located at http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org, the site was designed to track situation reports collected from aid agencies working in Pakistan and is initially focused on the many flood assessment reports being reported by such agencies…
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Case Study of Sahana Software Foundation Response to Haiti Earthquake Published by UN APCITC
A case study of the Sahana Software Foundation’s response to the Haiti earthquake co-authored by Sahana Software Foundation CEO Mark Prutsalis and CTO Chamindra de Silva has been published by the UN Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communications Technology for Development (APCICT) as part of their ICTD Case Study Series: ICT for…
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Taiwan Sahana Development Forum and SahanaCamp July 30-August 3, 2010
Taiwan Sahana Development Forum: The Science and Technology Advisory Group of the Executive Yuan / Ministry of Interior is sponsoring the Taiwan Sahana Development Forum on July 30, 2010 at the Howard International House in Taipei. Organized by the Institute for Information Industry (III) and supported by the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation at…
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Sahana a Gartner 2010 Cool Vendor
Gartner Inc. has named the Sahana Software Foundation a Cool Vendor in Risk Management and Compliance for 2010 for its Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) approach to disaster management. Gartner’s report, published in April 2010, is focused on the increasing and diverse risk management and compliance challenges facing organizations, which they see as requiring…
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Sahana Software Foundation Announces Students Selected for 2010 Google Summer of Code
The Sahana Software Foundation Community Development Committee would like to congratulate the following students for being selected to participate in the 2010 Google Summer of Code: Abhishek Mishra, HTML/JS Based Reusable Front End for S3XRC mentored by Dominic Koening and Fran Boon Amer Tahir, Automatic Synchronization Between Sahana Instances mentored by Fran Boon and Michael…