Category: Blog
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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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How Sahana is Feeding Communities Affected by Hurricane Sandy
Disaster relief is a lot about small moments. I have a few I want to share with you today – on Thanksgiving – how the Sahana Software Foundation is helping to feed thousands of persons in the communities hardest hit by the impact of Hurricane Sandy. * * * * *…
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Disaster Relief in my Home Town
I want to apologize most heartily for the delay in communicating both publicly and with the Sahana community about what has been going on here and what the Sahana Software Foundation has been doing to help. This is important too. Let me share some thoughts and my experiences with you: I live in Park Slope,…
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SSF supports Hurricane Sandy response in NYC
The Sahana Software Foundation is assisting the City of New York in its use of Sahana software to manage its response to Hurricane Sandy. The City’s Office of Emergency Management has been relying on Sahana software for its shelter management and registration programs since 2007. We are currently assisting the City University of New York…
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Code Like A Girl Again on October 6 with Sahana Eden!
Join the Sahana Software Foundation for this year’s Grace Hopper Open Source Day on October 6 in Baltimore, Maryland. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is the largest professional conference to support the research and career interests of women in computing. And this year’s Open Source Day at the conclusion of the conference…
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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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Sahana Annual Meeting: A student’s perspective.
This year, I got selected as a Google Summer of Code student by the Sahana Software Foundation to develop a rostering tool for their Eden project. As part of the pre-project work, it was necessary for me to get to know the Sahana community and meet the developers who contribute to it. And this opportunity…
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Sahana joins OASIS
The Sahana Software Foundation has joined OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems) – a not for profit consortium that drives the development and advancement of open data standards. In particular, OASIS is the home of the Emergency Data Exchange Language – or EDXL – suite of open data standards that includes…
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Sahana CERT Alerting Highlighted in CAP Workshop Report
The final report that came out of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Policy Workshop in Montreal quoted Sahana in it. Here’s an excerpt from the report: How to notify and utilize citizen volunteers Community volunteers [e.g. Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)] are increasingly seen as valuable resources to respond in emergencies. New tools and channels…
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Sahana presented to World Conference on Disaster Management
Yesterday morning, I had the honor of speaking to the 22nd World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM) in Toronto on the work of the Sahana Software Foundation. WCDM is one of the largest annual conferences in the world focused on disaster and emergency management. This year’s conference was attended by over 1,000 persons from government and…