Author: Michael Howden
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Welcome to our New Disaster Management Research and Communications Interns
The Sahana Software Foundation would like to welcome our new interns Hannah Schwartz, Hanna Maier and Om Goeckermann. Hanna Maier and Om Goeckermann are joining as Disaster Management Research interns. They will be conducting research to investigate the current information needs and trends in disaster and emergency management and evaluate Sahana software to support our…
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Software Development and Design Internships Open for Applications
The Sahana Software Foundation is holding its Software Development Internship Program again this year from November until March with up to 4 positions available. 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, Ashwyn Sharma and Somay Jain going…
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Communication and Disaster Management Research Internships Open for Applications
After a really successful internship program over the last year we’re excited to be continuing it. Estève Giraud and Marine Louvigny have done an excellent job as Communication Interns writing numerous blog posts and helping us with some of our user guides, but are now moving on to full time work and studies. The Sahana…
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Los Angeles Community Resilience Mapping Tool
The Sahana Software Foundation is excited to be working in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and RAND Corporation to develop a Community Resilience Mapping Tool using the Sahana Eden Open Source Disaster Management Software. This is an initiative within the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience (LACCDR) project whose aim is to engage…
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Sahana Workhop: New York
Last Saturday I headed back to the Occupy Sandy center at 520 Clinton St in Brooklyn to run a workshop for some new volunteers who were interested in supporting the Sahana solution which Occupy Sandy was using. I helped them get their development environments set up and gave them an introduction to the basics of developing in…
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NY Tech Responds Hackathon: It Is The People
I’ve been in New York to spend some time with the Occupy Sandy folks who have been using Sahana Eden to coordinate their relief operations. Over the weekend we all attended the NYTechRespond Hackathon. There were representatives there from American Red Cross, FEMA, United Way and Team Rubicon as well as a number of people…
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Get your Google Code In for Sahana
The Sahana Softtware Foundation is very happy to once again be a part of the Google Code In program. This is an opportunity for students from the ages of 13-17 to get involved in Open Source projects and work on tasks ranging from Code, Documentation, Training, Outreach, Research, Quality Assurance and User Interface design. We’re really…
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Sahana High School
For the second year, the Sahana Software Foundation has participated in the Google Code-In (GCI) Program which gives pre-university students the chance to get involved in open source projects. I was Sahana’s Administrator for this program and am incredibly happy with how well the program went for us. Out of the 208 tasks that we…