http://talksahana.com the unofficial official sahana blog Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:04:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sourceforge has announced the finalists for the SourceForge 2009 Community Choice Awards and Sahana has been selected as a finalist in the "Best Project for Government" category. Two things: 1. Please go and Vote now for Sahana. Vote here! 2. Help spread the word out & get others to vote for Sahana! :) Sahana ... http://talksahana.com/2009/06/23/vote-for-sahana-at-sourceforgenet-community-choice-awards/ I had the opportunity to present Sahana to the CrisisCamp Ignite session on June 12, 2009. The presentation, with narration, can be found on my slideshare site. Download the entire powerpoint show rather than viewing it through slideshare to hear the voiceover. About Crisis Camp: “CrisisCamp DC started with one ... http://talksahana.com/2009/06/15/sahana-at-crisis-camp-dc/ Interesting concept from the World Food Program who looks to use micro-blogging as a major means of information transfer - CipCip, inspired by Twitter, is a micro-blogging platform for humanitarian relief operations. According to the WFP Deliver project, which focuses on the delivery of information: "Please welcome CipCip (pronounce "TJEEP-TJEEP", Italian ... http://talksahana.com/2009/05/26/cipcip-the-humanitarian-twitter/ 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 ... http://talksahana.com/2009/05/25/sfnet-community-choice-award-nominations/ The Gartner Group''s Roberta Witty recently blogged on Sahana in "Sahana: A Free, Open Source Disaster Relief Management System" following a conference call I participated in with her this past Tuesday along with fellow Sahana transition board members Brent Woodworth and Mifan Careem.  It's a nice write-up from an influential ... http://talksahana.com/2009/04/24/sahana-blogged-by-gartners-roberta-witty/ Sahana Community, It is my pleasure to announce the students who will be participating in this years Google Summer of Code for Sahana.  We received 45 applicants from eight different countries this year for only 10 spots. I would like to personally congratulate both those who we are able to bring ... http://talksahana.com/2009/04/21/sahana-gsoc-students-announced/ Before jetting off the Colombo this weekend for the first annual Sahana software for disaster management conference, I want to provide an update on the input and ideas collected for the Sahana 1.0 release. I am personally a bit behind schedule myself on managing this, and for that I ... http://talksahana.com/2009/03/21/update-on-sahana-10-effort/ Sahana has been again selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2009. A full timeline of important dates for this summer is available. We were selected as 1 of 150 out of about 400 groups who applied this year.  This is a strong testament to the reputation that ... http://talksahana.com/2009/03/19/sahana-in-google-summer-of-code-2009/ 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 ... http://talksahana.com/2009/03/19/sahana-2009-conference-colombo-march-2425-2009/ Here's another CAP idea I wanted to get out before I read a document I've been sent that may cover the same topic (just to make sure I don't potentially draw on someone else's idea). This concept came to me, again, last year whilst I was working on the CAENZ ... http://talksahana.com/2009/03/14/peer-to-peer-serving-of-cap-messages/