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The Sahana Software Foundation invites its community to participate in a virtual weekend long code sprint to work on setting up Sahana Eden for use by the Foundation for coordinating its activities, members and contributors.  The site will be used for such things as maintaining profiles of members and contributors, tracking assignments and volunteer roles,…

The Sahana Eden CERT Solution took 1st place at the Random Hacks of Kindness (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 each RHOK event has provided an opportunity to both showcase Sahana…

The Sahana Software Foundation has been selected as one of a very select number of participating organization for the 2011-12 Google Code-In.  The Google Code-In is a contest for pre-university students to introduce them to all of the things that go into a successful open source project: code, documentation, outreach, quality assurance, research, training, translation…

SahanaCamp LA was held at the City of Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center on October 24-25 2011. SahanaCamp™ is a program of the Sahana Software Foundation. The SahanaCamp™ program provides participants with: an understanding of how Sahana software can help manage information before, during and after disasters; a practical technical workshop to provide instruction in how…

The Sahana Software Foundations is one of four open source projects participating in the Google Summer of Code Doc Summit on October 17-21 in Mountain View, California. This event – which combines a two-day unconference with a three day documentation sprint – provides a unique opportunity to improve the user and technical documentation for our projects.…

Join the Sahana Software Foundation for SahanaCamp LA to be held on October 24-25 at the City of Los Angeles’ Emergency Operations Center Media Center Conference Room.  SahanaCamp LA is a free 2-day program designed to provide individuals and organizations with an understanding of the needs for managing information in response to disasters paired with a practical…

The Volunteer Sahana Japan Team publicly launches disaster relief information site at http://sahana.jp on May 31, 2011 to register requests for assistance and information intended for use by local government and volunteer organizations that are taking part in the response and recovery efforts.  The site includes information on the location of shelters, volunteer activities, soup kitchens,…

Numerous bug fixes, search optimizations, and the lot have gone into this new release of Agasti. The DB schema has changed quite dramatically since 0.9.0, so, you would be better off starting out with a fresh one from /backups/vesuviusStarterDb_v091.sql. Download, enjoy, and report bugs if you encounter them!

We’re gearing up for our annual community wide gathering at the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM). Our focus for our time in Portugal will be planning the future course of Sahana: a review of our successes, a discussion of our lessons learned and formation of a concrete action plan to move…