Tag: New York

  • Stone Souping Social Service Information with Airtable in New York City

    Stone Souping Social Service Information with Airtable in New York City

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    Devin Balkind
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    The Sahana Software Foundation was recently awarded a microgrant by Open Referral (using funding from Stanford’s Digital Impact program, with fiscal sponsorship from the Alliance of Information and Referral Services) to develop and deploy an open source system for managing community resource data in the popular AirTable platform and making it accessible via Open Referral’s…

  • Sandy, Sahana and Sarapis

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    Devin Balkind
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    THE FOLLOWING POST FROM JANUARY 2013 IS REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM THE SARAPIS FOUNDATION. When “Superstorm Sandy” hit New York City on October 30th, dozens of relief organizations, hundreds of grassroots groups and thousands of people mobilized to provide aid to those most affected. The challenge of coordinating such a relief effort was felt by…

  • Occupy Sandy’s FLO Databases

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    Devin Balkind
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    Have you ever been working on a spreadsheet and found that you just couldn’t get all the information you wanted into it?  Have you ever looked at the horizontal and vertical cells and wished there were—somehow—a third dimension that gave you the ability to define more stuff?  Well, that’s what databases do: they provide you…

  • NY Tech Responds Hackathon: It Is The People

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    Michael Howden
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    I’ve been in New York to spend some time with the Occupy Sandy folks who have been using Sahana Eden to coordinate their relief operations. Over the weekend we all attended the NYTechRespond Hackathon. There were representatives there from American Red Cross, FEMA, United Way and Team Rubicon as well as a number of people…