Author: Michael Howden
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VMware Sahana Usability Review
Over the past months, Rafae Aziz, Danny Walcoff and a team from VMware have worked on a UI/UX Review of Sahana through a series a of half-day sprints. Sahana has been deployed as customized solution in a wide number of different contexts, so to focus their review the VMware team reviewed the Los Angeles Community…
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Sahana Eden Software Development Internship 2014-15
The Sahana Software Foundation is holding its Software Development Internship Program again this year from 13th October 2014 until 13th March 2015. This is a virtual internship and is open to applicants from any country. This program was highly successful last year, with two of the interns, Arnav Sharma and Somay Jain going on to…
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Google Open Source Blog: The Sahana Software Foundation annual conference
Today Sahana was featured in a post on the Google Open Source Blog about our annual conference which they helped to sponsor.
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Sahana Community Strategic Planning
One of the priorities for the Sahana Software Foundation is to find out where the community wants to take Sahana over the next years and support the development of a strategic plan to guide us together on this journey. A strategic plan will help to communicate priority goals for volunteers to choose to work on…
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Sahana: The Next Generation
Hello All, It is my great honor to have been selected as the Chief Executive Officer of the Sahana Software Foundation. The Sahana Software Foundation is an amazing organization with a very rich history. I have to thank both Mark Prutsalis, who has lead Sahana over the past 5 years, all of the volunteers who originally…
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Sahana MeetUp – Colombo, Sri Lanka + Virtual
We had a great Meetup this week with 15 people – 10 in Sri Lanka and 5 joining virtually. We started off together, and then split into a virtual group and a on-location group before reporting back together at the end. We were lucky to have Preeti Jha from UNDP to share the work she’s…
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SahanaCamp & Sahana Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 18-22nd June 2014
The Sahana Software Foundation is excited to invite participants for our upcoming SahanaCamp and Sahana Conference to be held in conjunction with the Indian Ocean Tsunami 10th (IOTX) Anniversary convention in Colombo Sri Lanka between 18-22nd June. Registration is open now: http://www.iotxconvention.org/registration SahanaCamp SahanaCamp will be a participatory workshop on the Sahana Disaster Management Information…
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New Software Development Interns
The Sahana Software Foundation welcomes Arnav, Katherine, Somay and Akila who have started internships with the Sahana Software Foundation. Their internships will be run part-time through to the end of March. Arnav Sharma is new to Sahana but has previously contributed to the Apertium open-source machine translation engine. He’s a student at IIIT Hyderabad. Graeme…
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Sahana helping Philippine’s Department of Health
Following Typhoon Haiyan, Dr Alvin Marcelo, a long term supporter of Sahana reached out to the Sahana Community to help International Open Source Network using Sahana for the National Telehealth Center. The Sahana Community was able to provide a customized Sahana site for managing requests and donations for organizations and sites. When Dr Jeriel de…
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Sahana Community Supports Philippines Government
In 2012 a the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the Philippines implemented a Relief Goods Inventory & Monitoring System (RGIMS) using the Sahana Eden Open Source Disaster Management Software. A technology transfer program involving virtual trainings, workshops and ongoing support was run in partnership with AidIQ and members of the Sahana Community.…