http://talksahana.com the unofficial official sahana blog Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:29:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am in Orlando, Florida, where this morning I accepted an award given to the Sahana Software Foundation for our response to the Haiti earthquake. The Best Practices award is given annually by PPBI (Public Private Business, Inc.), a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to link the private ... http://talksahana.com/2010/03/24/sahana-software-foundation-receives-best-practices-award-for-haiti-earthquake-response/ The Membership of the Sahana Software Foundation was formed in January.  It includes 23 persons who previously served on the Board or Project Management Committee.  Our release announcing this can be viewed here:  http://wiki.sahanafoundation.org/doku.php/foundation:initial_membership Save the Date: The first Meeting of Members and the Board will take place on Sunday, May 2, 2010 in Seattle Washington, ... http://talksahana.com/2010/03/24/important-foundation-announcements-march-2010/ Sahana Software Foundation Haiti Earthquake Response Status Report #2 January 19, 2010 04:00 UTC Work on the Haiti 2010 Sahana Disaster Response Portal continues around the clock.  The following is a brief update of what we’ve accomplished and where we are headed.  Most of this information is currently maintained on a ... http://talksahana.com/2010/01/20/sahana-status-report-2-on-haiti-earthquake-response/ The Sahana Software Foundation and the Sahana community responded with a massive voluntary effort immediately following the earthquake that has devastated the poor country of Haiti.  Working around the clock, we have set up a hosted instance of Sahana (the first deployment of SahanaPy following a disaster!) on a public ... http://talksahana.com/2010/01/17/sahana-software-foundation-responds-to-haiti-earthquake/ We concluded our experiments on Thursday, November 19, after 10+ days on the ground.  The list of accomplishments we had at Camp Roberts as part of the RELIEF experiments sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School is lengthy and a bit overwhelming.  We have plans to write up a much more ... http://talksahana.com/2009/12/13/wrap-up-from-relief-10-1/ I wanted to give you all a quick update on the first two days activities at the RELIEF experiments at Camp Roberts in California. Our team (Chamindra de Silva, Gavin Treadgold, Trishan de Lanerolle, Chris Fei and myself) arrived without incident at SFO on Monday afternoon and we all drove down ... http://talksahana.com/2009/11/12/update-1-from-camp-roberts-relief-10-1/ The Sahana Software Foundation is proud to be participating in the first International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM 2009). Co-organized by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and John Carroll University (JCU), this unique event brings together seasoned humanitarian and human rights practitioners with leading scholars, software developers, policy makers and ... http://talksahana.com/2009/10/09/sahana-and-crisis-mapping-2009/ Free and Open Source Software for Disaster Management: A Case Study of Sahana Disaster  Management System of Sri Lanka: a UNESCAP Technical Paper by the Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division of UNESCAP - A comprehensive and well-researched insight into Sahana http://talksahana.com/2009/09/29/unescap-technical-paper-a-case-study-of-sahana/ In an attempt to make a reusable component for form handling in Logistics, that supports validation and performs form processing automatically, I went through a few difficulties that are prevailing in the current libraries. The form library does not use a common interface, eg. lib_form.inc function shn_form_button($name, $button_opts = null, $extra_opts = null) function ... http://talksahana.com/2009/08/27/sahana-libraries%e2%80%99-limitation-of-a-common-interface/ Last couple of months we (The Respere Team) were implementing a Donor Management System for sarvodaya which provides some additional enhancements for existing Catalog, Inventory and request Management Modules. The additional enhancements that we have added are listed below. Inventory Management Module Inventory Ownership - Track an owner for Inventory. Advantage of ... http://talksahana.com/2009/08/26/additional-enhancements-are-functioning-in-sahana-rms-ims-modules/