Category: Operations
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SSF President Explains “The Rise of Open Aid” at NVOAD Annual Conference
I had the honor of presenting “The Rise of Open Aid” at the 2018 NVOAD conference in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The presentation offered an overview of what is increasingly known as the “open aid movement”: a collection of efforts following the open source way in disaster management and humanitarian aid contexts. The presentation describes the shared…
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2015 End of Year Update
In the past, only the biggest NGOs and best-funded government agencies could afford custom information management systems designed specifically for disaster management. Thanks to you, the Sahana community, we are reducing the cost and improving the quality of the information management solutions accessible to communities of all shapes and sizes. Please consider making a tax-deductible…
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Sahana Participates for GCI 2014
The Sahana Software Foundation has actively taken part in the Google Code-In programme since its inception in 2010 and 2014’s programme was no exception as Sahana was once again among the 12 open source organizations selected to mentor students for Code-In. From November 2014 to January 2015, students completed a whopping total of 173 tasks for…
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March Update
It’s been a busy start to the year with lots going on in the Sahana. There’s been some great voluntary contributions over the past months. Tom Baker has been making some great progress extending continuing his work developing a Sahana Mobile App. Adhitya Kamakshidasan has been tackling some tricky problems around request management and vehicle routing.…
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Sahana This Week
It’s a busy week for Sahana around the world! Fran Boon, the Technical Lead for the Sahana software project, delivering a SahanaCamp training workshop for the Civil Society Disaster Platform, a coalition of disaster management organizations in Turkey. This workshop has been organized by MAG Foundation in close partnership with Sahana. It will include a…
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Sahana Strategic Plan 2014-2015
Thanks to all your effort throughout our a comprehensive community planning process we now have a Strategic Plan for the next year: http://bit.ly/sahana-strategic-plan-2014-2015 . This is a high level overview: I would like to thank the following people who contributed to the process by providing input, contributing to the discussion and feedback throughout: Devin Balkind, Fran Boon,…
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Sahana Community Strategic Planning
One of the priorities for the Sahana Software Foundation is to find out where the community wants to take Sahana over the next years and support the development of a strategic plan to guide us together on this journey. A strategic plan will help to communicate priority goals for volunteers to choose to work on…
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Sahana Software Foundation announces next CEO Michael Howden
Sahana Software Foundation is pleased to announce Michael Howden will be the organisation’s next Chief Executive Officer. Michael served as Managing Director of AidIQ from 2009-2014, and since 2012, as a member of the Board of Directors in Sahana Software Foundation. This is an exciting moment for the organisation. I have already had the opportunity…
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Sahana Software Foundation announces reconstitution of the Board of Directors
It is with great pleasure that I can announce, that Sahana Software Foundation effective 23rd June 2014, reconstituted the Board of Directors, following the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors. I am especially pleased that we can congratulate Chamindra de Silva and Brent Woodworth back on the Board of Directors. I look forward to…