Category: Blog
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IOTX Sri Lanka : SahanaCamp
IOTX Sri Lanka : SahanaCamp was a participatory workshop on the use of Disaster Management Information Systems with a focus on the Sahana Open Source Disaster Management Information System. It gave participants An introduction to real-world Sahana disaster management solutions Hands on experience using Sahana to manage information and make decisions in a disaster simulation. Analysis…
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IOTX Sri Lanka: A glimpse from the eyes of an intern
I have been associated with Sahana Software Foundation since October, 2013, first as a volunteer contributor, then as a Sahana intern for four months and since April as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) intern. Sahana Software Foundation held its SahanaCamp and Sahana Conference in conjunction with the Indian Ocean Tsunami 10th (IOTX) Anniversary convention…
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IOTX Sri Lanka : Sahana Bar Camp
The first day of the Sahana Barcamp was held at the WSO2 office. It was a really cool place and seemed to have good work culture ( They had a drum kit and guitar in cafeteria. That made my day 😀 ) We started the Bar Camp off with planning the sessions, removing clashes and…
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IOTX Sri Lanka : CAP Code-Fest
The CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) Code-Fest was the hacker’s day of the week ( Everybody was plugged in, with coffee beside every laptop 😀 ) CAP is a XML based data format which is used to send warnings, alerts and other important data during emergencies. This allows the disaster and risk management tools and other tools used during…
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IOTX Sri Lanka: Sahana Strategic Planning Workshop
I am happy to announce that Sahana Strategic Planning Workshop was conducted on 15 June 2014 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The workshop was attended by many members of the Sahana Software Foundation as well as some of the GSOC interns. We kicked off workshop started with an ice breaker activity which got us thinking…
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SahanaCamp & Sahana Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 18-22nd June 2014
The Sahana Software Foundation is excited to invite participants for our upcoming SahanaCamp and Sahana Conference to be held in conjunction with the Indian Ocean Tsunami 10th (IOTX) Anniversary convention in Colombo Sri Lanka between 18-22nd June. Registration is open now: http://www.iotxconvention.org/registration SahanaCamp SahanaCamp will be a participatory workshop on the Sahana Disaster Management Information…
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Welcome to 2014 Sahana Google Summer of Code Students!
The Sahana Software Foundation is proud to announce the eleven recipients of the 2014 Google Summer of Code internships with the Sahana Eden and Vesuvius Projects. Competition for these slots was very high. We received many proposals including several from students who were already actively contributing code and ideas to the Sahana Software Foundation, or…
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Symbols in Alerts feed into Federation of Internet Alerting Standards
Almost one year ago, I had presented a concept on the use of “pictographs in alerting” and shared the evidence for the growing need for such an initiative. This was at the 2013 CAP Implementation Workshop in Geneva. The real need was to aid the linguistically challenged: tourist in a foreign country and illiterate. Moreover, it…
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Sahana Vesuvius Migrates to GitHub
On behalf of Sahana community, I’m happy to announce that we finished the migration of Sahana Vesuvius from Launchpad to GitHub. All the code and bugs have been successfully transferred with the complete commit history. We can now profit from the best platform out there and use Git, the fastest revision control system. This is something that we have…
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Sahana at Google Code-In 2013
The Sahana Software Foundation has gained a solid reputation over the years for participating successfully in Google’s Open Source programs. Sahana has been able to provide an enriching experience for young students in Open Source through both the Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In. 2013 was no exception, with Sahana participating in both events…