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Sahana’s Response to Bihar Floods
Sep 2nd
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:
- 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] - 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.
- 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! Read the rest of this entry »
Sahana at mukt.in 2008
Aug 4th
Being introduced to Sahana was something that happened to me over an year back while working for my academic project, where I checked out Sahana and got to know about it.
With Google Summer of Code 2008 I got a chance to *actually* work and contribute ..
And while talking and working with guys at mukt.in, an idea popped up suddenly when krish said, “Hey AJuOnLiNE, why don’t you give a talk on Sahana“. I thought it was a great idea, but the event being in a different city and the dates of the event being quite some time ahead, I wasn’t really sure if I would be able to make it.
But then I had the Google Bangalore office meet up and I managed to extend my stay for mukt.in and not to mention the “You should go for it!!” I got from the Sahana main-dev list and my Sahana mentor, Fran!
So here I was giving a talk on Sahana to the students of Computer Science Department at Osmania University, Hyderabad and speakers from the FOSS Community, IT Professionals, people highly experienced than me and in short it was fun pHun!
mukt.in is a FOSS promotion event which attracts audiences who are Newbies, Students, Professional, FOSS Advocates [not lawyers 
] , and speakers from other FOSS Projects/communities… This year the venue was Computer Science Department, Osmania University, Hyderabad. It was a 3 Day event, 1-3 August, 2008.
My main agenda at the event was to showcase:
- what Sahana is
- how kOoL it is
- how it *has* been used in post-disaster situations
- how can people/community contribute to it.. Read the rest of this entry »
Accepted in Google Summer of Code 2008!!
Apr 22nd
This year I proposed an idea as a part of the Google Summer of Code 2008 program which Google has been organizing since 2005 to promote Free and Open Source Development by sponsoring FOSS based organizations in their projects.
My idea got Accepted!!
My idea was to add a feature to the Sahana Disaster Management System. Read more about what Sahana is here.
I will write more about it soon!!….
For now, here is the link to my idea – http://code.google.com/soc/2008/sahana/about.html
#6 above.
This is a sponsorship by Google which promotes Open Source Development each year by paying each idea a stipend amount to the Organization/Project and the student developer upon successful completion.
Some stats:
- Total Number of Applications/Ideas received by Google – 7090
- Accepted Ideas this year – 1125
- Sahana Applications – 59
- Selected in Sahana – 9
- My Rank @ Sahana – 6th
- India #2 – Source
Looking forward for a great coded Summer!!
Happy hAcKing to all fellow GSoC students!!
Hail gEeKdOm!! 
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