May 25, 2009 - 1:54 am
Tags: Sahana, SourceForge
Posted in FOSS, GSoC 2008, Sahana | No Comments
This is the last week to nominate your favorite open source project for the Source Forge Community Choice Awards. So if you are a supporter of the Sahana project, please show your support by nominating us.
Suggested categories:
Best Project
Best Project for Developers
Best Project for Government
Best Project for Academia
Most likely to change the way you [...]
March 19, 2009 - 10:55 pm
Tags: Sahana
Posted in Events, GSoC 2008, Sahana | No Comments
As mentioned earlier in my post here, The Free and Open Source Software Community of Sri Lanka [FOSS.LK] is hosting the 1st Annual SAHANA Conference on March 24 & 25, 2009.
And I happen to be speaking at the first ever Sahana conference and am pretty much excited about it! Specifically, to meet the people/team who [...]
The Free and Open Source Software Community of Sri Lanka [FOSS.LK] is hosting the 1st Annual SAHANA Conference on March 24 & 25, 2009. In its inaugural year, the conference will provide opportunities for anyone involved in Disaster/Emergency management to network and share best practices with each other.
The conference is aptly named SAHANA, meaning “Relief” [...]
After conducting the first ever Localization sprint for Sahana sometime back, we had a Hackfest planned at FOSSKriti where I saw awesome collaboration work happening real time for the first time !!
The plan: Coding for Sahana in Python
Date/Time: February 14th 2009, 1530 UTC.
Venue: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
and #sahana on irc.freenode.net [...]
February 24, 2009 - 2:10 am
Tags: fosskriti, gnunify, hfoss, Sahana
Posted in Events, Sahana | No Comments
Recently I had planned to attend and present Sahana to the students audience at two events in India where the main agenda of my talk was to make them aware of the HFOSS ideology and Sahana, as a part of the community building efforts I have been doing in India.
Being a student myself, I am [...]
February 12, 2009 - 3:30 pm
Tags: Openmoko, Sahana
Posted in Openmoko, Sahana | No Comments
Hi All,
I am trying to collect data to include in my report as a part of
research and preliminary analysis for my project.
So I request you all to kindly take out time to fill up the survey
that I have created here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pWeVl6IM9h6UKAGOx231pFA
I highly urge you to complete the survey in full and help me with the research.
Any [...]
December 31, 2008 - 8:30 pm
Tags: FOSS.in 2008, Sahana
Posted in Events, FOSS, GSoC 2008, Sahana | 2 Comments
Probably I am the last one to write the report on the event by now But heck, I had exams before and after the event and then life took over But I decided to write it up before the year ends! It will be a long post, you have been warned [...]
November 14, 2008 - 1:13 am
Tags: Neo FreeRunner, Openmoko, Sahana
Posted in Openmoko, Sahana | 1 Comment
On 8th November 2008, I received my Neo FreeRunner phone to work on the Sahana mobile project. In this project, I proposed to use this device as an efficient disaster reporting tool. I choose this stack for a simple reason i.e. Open and Friendly, but I know I have to come up with more justifications [...]
Because you know PHP and can code in PHP!
Because you get a chance to let your code make a difference to a large cause. Globally!
Because you understand availability of information at the right time is important!
Because you *want* to do some life changing work! One that can change lives.
Imagine, a missing [...]
November 4, 2008 - 4:23 pm
Tags: Sahana
Posted in Events, GSoC 2008, Sahana | 3 Comments
On 7th & 8th November 2008 A FOSS introductory workshop is being organized at JMIT, Raudaur, for Lecturers/Professors of computer / electronic streams at JMIT and neighboring colleges. Proposed strength is 40 participants, which will also include some student members.
Link: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/JmitHaryanaWorkshop
Am planning to conduct a hands-on session to install & use Sahana for the participants. [...]
So now we have Sahana available in two flavours: PHP & Python, take your pick