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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…

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…

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…

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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

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.…

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…

The Sahana Software Foundation is currently responding to the situation in the aftermath of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami affecting Japan. Our hearts are with the thousands affected by this terrible tragedy. Sahana software was born out of the experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka, and many in our community…