Category: Blog
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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.…
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Sahana and the UN’s Disaster Relief 2.0 Report
The UN Foundation’s latest report, Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies, has a great deal of quality data and information for the crisis preparedness community, but there are a few key takeaways with particular significance for the Sahana community. If you haven’t read the report in its entirety, take a…