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Sahana coming to FOSS.in/2008 :)

Sahana is going to be present at FOSS.in/2008 in Bangalore, India in the last week of November.  I will be representing the Sahana project and interacting with the FOSS contributors present at the event from India & abroad and the community.

A coding session, termed as a “workout”, is planned to make feature additions to the Sahana Messaging module at the event, which would involve interested participants writing code for Sahana at the event.  The detailed plan of the proposed workout is present here at the Sahana Wiki. Interested people can participate in the discussion on the Sahana Developer Mailing list and help out in planning the module features and make any suggestions they might have.

Workout: SMS Public Information Feature addition to Sahana Messaging

Event: FOSS.IN

Place: Bangalore, India.

Date: 25-29 November, 2008.

PS: Exact schedule of the workout during any of these days will be out soon on the foss.in site.

Here’s the original announcement about the event at the FOSS.IN/2008 site and the first list of accepted talks and workouts here. You can read about what FOSS.in is here. Besides the session, I will be looking forward to meeting the localization teams from India, the community leaders and active contributors and of course attending their sessions as well.

In case you plan to be around in the town somewhere in that period, do drop in and help spread the message about Sahana!!

I code for SAHANA. Do you?

Sahana localisation sprint on 1st November @ Sarai.

Event: Sahana Localisation Sprint

Place: Sarai, New Delhi. or #sahana on Freenode

Primary Objective/Agenda: Review and complete Hindi Translations of Sahana. [Other language translators expected to join in too]

Date: 1st November, 2008.

Time: 11 AM to 6 PM.

Check the Mailing list for discussion on the topic here.

Join in and contribute to Sahana :-)

I code for SAHANA. Do you?

Sahana’s Response to Bihar Floods

The Sahana team is currently working on setting up custom deployments as per the requirements specific for the Bihar floods. Currently, we are working on Translating Sahana to Hindi, that could be used in the deployment.  As you might have heard there are about 1-2 million people who have been affected by the Bihar disaster. A team in Kolkata (Calcutta) has just been initiated for the deployment effort.
If you wish to join us and contribute to this response effort please select the appropriate communication channel:

Communication Channels to be followed in case you are willing to contribute:

  1. Join the Localization Group for Sahana @ Google Groups for any communications and updates!
    All translation related discussions go on the localization mailing list. [An important update on collaboration has been posted there for people working on the Hindi translation. So please join & check. Update: This thread]
  2. For people using Sahana and working on it, for issues relating to generic Sahana installation etc and usage can join and post to this mailing list. We have a wider range of support available here.
  3. In case you wish to work on the Bihar relief work going on you should co-ordinate with the Group Dedicated here: Sahana Bihar Google Group
    Please note your credentials will be verified by the group to ensure that information here is not misused. In case your a new person and wish to help with translation ONLY join the first group, in case you want to contribute with the Sahana development, join the developers mailing list instead mentioned below in the links section. Update: Its seems lot of people trying to work on the translation and are joining this list instead. :-) Please do not join this list. That is for the team and people who are working with the Government agencies @ Bihar scenario, NGOs, Sahana developers etc. I understand you wish to help, and hence request to join the appropriate channels of communication! :-)

Continue reading ‘Sahana’s Response to Bihar Floods’

mukt.in v2 report :-) - An experience “delightful”!

This year, I made it to the event, after I came to know about it while hanging around on IRC in the Official Google Summer of Code channel. Interacting with the people in there, I got a chance to get involved and volunteer for tasks related to the event.

Considering most of the time I was occupied with work for GSoC, I managed to confirm my talk and attend the event for the whole of 3 days.

Event: mukt.in v2 2008

Venue: CSE Department, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Date: 1-3 August 2008. Continue reading ‘mukt.in v2 report :-) - An experience “delightful”!’




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