Author: Ramindu Deshapriya
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Sahana Participates for GCI 2014
The Sahana Software Foundation has actively taken part in the Google Code-In programme since its inception in 2010 and 2014’s programme was no exception as Sahana was once again among the 12 open source organizations selected to mentor students for Code-In. From November 2014 to January 2015, students completed a whopping total of 173 tasks for…
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Sahana at the GSoC 2013 Mentor Summit
The Sahana Software Foundation has partnered with Google to mentor students for Google Summer of Code every year since 2006. As such, mentors from the SSF are invited to participate at the GSoC Mentor Summit at Googleplex in Mountain View, CA each year. The Mentor Summit is, in the words of the organizers, an ‘unconference’,…
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Sahana Meetup with Tom Worthington at Virtusa, Sri Lanka
Sahana, as a reputed Disaster Management project, has the basic functionality to support many different emergency response paradigms. This was demonstrated comprehensively at an interesting meetup conducted in Sri Lanka recently. The event was conducted with the presence of Chamindra De Silva, who is a Director of the Sahana Software Foundation, and Tom Worthington, a…
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Sahana Annual Meeting: A Google Summer of Code Student’s perspective
I am not a newcomer to Sahana, having participated as a Google Summer of Code in 2011 as well. However, I dismissed last year’s Sahana Annual Meeting as something way over my head, and not applicable to me. How wrong I was. The Sahana Software Foundation makes a provision to accommodate their Google Summer of Code…
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Those fateful 3 months and what the future holds – From the experience of a Sahana GSoCer
If you are a Sri Lankan involved in the field of Information Technology, it is inevitable that you will someday hear about, and be inspired by, the Sahana project. It is renowned for being a community software project that was born in Sri Lanka and has now moved out in to the world, unifying developers…