Interview with Devin Balkind: Sahana and Occupy Sandy Relief Efforts
If you’ve been following the Sahana blog, you’ve seen a number of posts recently on how Sahana has been used to help victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York, United […]
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GCI 2012 and Sahana Software Foundation
Hi, I’m Aviral Dasgupta, an eleventh grader from India, and one of the students who worked on Sahana Eden as part of Google Code-in 2012. I’m also one of the two grand […]
Occupy Sandy’s FLO Databases
Have you ever been working on a spreadsheet and found that you just couldn’t get all the information you wanted into it? Have you ever looked at the horizontal and […]
Introducing Sahana’s Intern Team
You may recall our recent post on Sahana’s internship program, where we announced that the community was welcoming six contributors into the fold to work on communications, bug fixes and […]
Happy Holidays
To everyone involved in supporting, developing and using Sahana software, I wanted to wish you a very happy holiday season and Happy New Year! 2012 was a banner year for […]
A EUROSHA Volunteer Diary
FLOSS, source code, OdBL… when I first heard about the EUROSHA project and Sahana, open source technologies were still a black hole for me. The humanitarian world stopped at the barbed […]
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 […]
The Sahana Software Foundation Launches 2012 Internship Program
To round out its outreach activities for 2012, the Sahana Software Foundation has launched its first internship program! More than 80 applications were received and six students or recent graduates […]
Sahana at ITU-D in Bangkok
The International Telecommunications Union – Disaster (ITU-D) division recruited me to introduce ways in which the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) interoperable emergency communication standard could be operationalized in the Asia […]
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 […]