Category: Blog
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“Do You Hear Me?” Sahana working to integrate voice-enable interfaces for grassroots CERT
After watching the video, please take a few minutes to complete this questionnaire (there are only three simple questions to answer). You may scroll to the bottom to access the questionnaire; else click here. Thank you in advance. With the spread of affordable telecom services, most Asians now use their own phones to stay connected.…
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Sri Lanka case study using Sahana and Freedom Fone presented in UK
The LIRNEasia and Sarvodaya conducted feasibility study to integrate the Freedom Fone Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System with the Sahana Disaster Management System was presented at the Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC) technology fair. The congregation took place in London, UK, March 22 & 23. Brenda Burrell (Technical Director Freedom Fone), residing in Harare…
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Sahanathon launches Sahana Sunflower Community Portal
Over the weekend of March 23-25, the Sahana Software Foundation held its first Sahanathon – a community event that provided an opportunity for contributors to work together on Sahana Eden. The project we focused on was to set up Sahana Eden as a Community Portal, called The Sahana Sunflower. Basically, we’re (finally) eating our own dog…
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Sahana Software Foundation Seeks Sponsors for 2012 Annual Meeting and SahanaCamp NYC
The Sahana Software Foundation is seeking sponsorship for our 2012 Annual Meeting and a SahanaCamp™ this coming May in New York City. Sahana software is supported by a global virtual and volunteer community of contributors from diverse backgrounds – emergency managers, open source software developers, international relief agency staff, academic researchers, public health professionals, technology…
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Sahana Google Code-In Students work on CAP Broker
Once again Sahana participated in 2011 Google Code-In. Happy to have been part of it mentoring students. A big thrill was that they worked on the few research tasks that were related to the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Broker. The two main tasks were: develop a blueprint with wireframe to port the Sahana Agasti CAP…
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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…
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Sahana Eden CERT Solution Takes 1st Place and RHOKs Austin
The Sahana community was well represented at another Random Hacks of Kindness (RHOK) event again this year, and had the honor of winning first place at the RHOK 2011 Austin (Texas, USA) event. This year’s RHOK saw 30 cities world wide participating. The Sahana Software Foundation has been a RHOK participant since it began in 2009, and…
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Reflections on the GSoC Mentor Summit 2011
The Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit was on the 22nd and 23rd of October at Google’s Mountain View campus. The Mentor Summit this year saw a much larger attendance than any previous Mentor Summits. Michael Howden, Fran Boon, Dominic Konig, Pat Tressel and Shikhar Kohli all represented the Sahana Software Foundation at the Mentor…
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Sahana Eden Essential Guide Produced at Google Doc Sprint
We know that documentation is important to help people use all Sahana software products. Unfortunately our developers are usually too focussed on coding and haven’t shown enough love and attention to documentation. As the software has grown, it has become essential to have information that can be used by individuals new to the project to…
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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…