Category: Blog
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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…
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HFOSS at the Open World Forum: Sahana á Paris
The 4th Open World Forum (OWF) was held in Paris on September 24-26. Last year, I had the honor of chairing a small inaugural panel on the use of Free/Libre Open Source Software Against Crisis; this year, with the support of OWF Co-President Louis Montagne, HFOSS was expanded into a half-day track, organized by Dave Neary…
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The 2011 Sahana Google Summer of Code Wrap-Up: The Best Summer Ever!
Another summer is over. And what a great summer it was. Countless hours at the beach and pool with the kids; great free concerts in the park…. but this post is supposed to be a wrap up about Sahana’s 2011 Google Summer of Code Program, so let’s get to that. It was, quite simply…
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Sahana’s GSOC Projects at the Mid-Terms – Exciting Progress
Last week marked the mid-term evaluations for this year’s Google Summer of Code. All six students we are mentoring this year passed their mid-terms and are making great progress towards successfully completing their summer internship with the Sahana Software Foundation. As part of their mid-term evaluation, all of our students created screencasts demonstrating…
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IBMers Contribute to SSF as part of IBM Centennial Celebration of Service
This year marks IBM’s Centennial and as part of a year-long Celebration of Service, the civic-minded company has been organizing volunteer contributions of IBMers to projects in the communities where they live with a specific focus on a Day of Service on June 15th – the day before the centennial of their founding. As part…
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Sahana Community Meetup @ Lisbon
[Editor’s note: Google generously provides sponsorship for former Google Summer of Code students to attend events relevant to their experiences with open source. This post from Praneeth Bodduluri, a 2009 GSOC student with Sahana and now a Sahana Software Foundation Member and member of the Eden Project Management Committee, is the third and final from former…
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Obrigado por sua hospitalidade Lisboa!
[Editor’s note: Google generously provides sponsorship for former Google Summer of Code students to attend events relevant to their experiences with open source. This post from Robby O’Connor, a 2010 GSOC student with Sahana, is the second of three from former Sahana GSOC students that were able to attend our annual meeting in Lisbon because of…
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Lisboaaa…aah!!
[Editor’s note: Google generously provides sponsorship for former Google Summer of Code students to attend events relevant to their experiences with open source. This post from Zubair Assad, a 2010 GSOC student with Sahana, is the first of three from former Sahana GSOC students that were able to attend our annual meeting in Lisbon because…
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Obrigado Lisbon! The Sahana Community Bonds over Bacalhau and the Port
I’m just back from six days in Lisbon, Portugal for the Sahana Community Bar Camp, Annual Meeting, SahanaCamp@ISCRAM Disaster Workshop and Simulation, and Interoperability Workshop as part of the 8th ISCRAM Conference, as well as a few days of sightseeing and wholly re-energized about our future. The main theme of the weekend’s events was Community.…