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 in Sinhala, an official language of Sri Lanka, and is named after the SAHANA Disaster Management System, which was created as a Free/Open Source software solution in response to the 2004 South Asian Tsunami.

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IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs is pleased to host a 4-day training workshop, in Manila, Philippines, February 19-24, 2009 (excluding weekend), on Sahana. As you may know, IBM has partnered with Lanka Software Foundation and the Sahana community in support of Sahana deployments following humanitarian disasters, most recently in China following the May 2008 earthquake and in India following the August 2008 flooding in Bihar State. This workshop is to build additional capacity for successful Sahana deployments in the region.

The four-day workshop will provide an overview of disaster management concepts and a comprehensive curriculum in Sahana user skills; administrator and configuration skills for those wishing to support installation, setup, and training/use of Sahana; and developer information for coders wishing to customize Sahana.

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