Category: Blog
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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 a mentoring organization for the 2013 Google Code-In
Google’s Open Source Programs Office announced today that the Sahana Software Foundation has been named one of 10 mentoring organizations for the 2013 Google Code-In. The Google Code-In is a contest that provides pre-university students with the opportunity to contribute to open source projects in five areas: code, documentation/training, outreach/research, quality assurance, and user interface.…
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Sahana News October 2013
Here’s the next installment of the month Sahana News for October 2013. News and Announcements First Virtual Eden Training Held. The first virtual Sahana Eden training for new developers was held on September 30th. We had over 20 persons in attendance and we’ve received great feedback and evaluations. All training materials – including a recording…
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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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Report on Grace Hopper Open Source Day
If it is the Saturday after the Grace Hopper Conference then it has been a given for the past 4 years that a Sahana team has been a sponsor of the very popular Open Source Day (OSD) event. October 5 found Louiqa, Pat and three University of Maryland undergraduate student facilitators – Deonna Hodges, Naomi…
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Sahana News September 2013
To improve communications about all things Sahana, I am going to undertake to write a short monthly report on news, events, projects, activities that the Sahana Software Foundation is involved with. I’m also going to try posting short notes more frequently on our blog about Sahana activities and welcome other contributors to do the same…
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Introducing Sahana’s Google Summer of Code Interns
It is summer time again, and time for Google Summer of Code™. Since Monday June 17, 2013, 11 students started coding for 12 weeks to improve two Sahana capabilities and develop new features. As introduced by Mark on May 27th on Sahana’s website, six students will work on Sahana Vesuvius and five on Sahana Eden.…
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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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Supporting organizations in disaster management: a continuous mission
The Sahana Community is dedicated to supporting organizations in their mission to prepare and respond to disasters to save lives. Because we care, we particularly enjoy reading comments – of direct users, the broader humanitarian community or just curious people – about what we do and how we do it. Recently, we read an article…
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Sandy, Sahana and Sarapis
THE FOLLOWING POST FROM JANUARY 2013 IS REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM THE SARAPIS FOUNDATION. When “Superstorm Sandy” hit New York City on October 30th, dozens of relief organizations, hundreds of grassroots groups and thousands of people mobilized to provide aid to those most affected. The challenge of coordinating such a relief effort was felt by…