Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

Sahana Response to Haiti

The Sahana Community is responding to the disaster in Haiti. You can find all our activities on our WIKI at the following location http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php/haiti:start. We are happy to work with anyone who needs Sahana for a deployment in Haiti.

Join us online to help Haiti with Sahana!
We are also live online on the freenode #sahana IRC channel where you can chat with the community. If you do not have an IRC client access this channel through the web on http://www.sahana.lk/chat.

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We appreciate your donations of time, effort, resources and money in support of this effort





Sahana Finalist in Sourceforge 2009 Community Choice Awards

Sahana has been selected as a finalist in the SourceForge 2009 Community Choice Awards in the Best Project for Government section. If you see value in Sahana as a tool and would like to help get it more recognized out there, please do support us by clicking on the vote button below:



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Sahana booklet commemorates the early years and initial contributions

The Lanka Software Foundation released the Sahana booklet to mark the occasion of the transition of Sahana to an independent foundation.
The booklet recounts the early years of the Sahana FOSS project and acknowledges the contributions of individuals and organizations to the success of Sahana.

Sahana to transition to an independent foundation

Following three years of incubation by the Lanka Software Foundation, Sahana is ready to transition to an independent foundation.
At a meeting in Sri Lanka on March 27 2009, an interim Sahana transition Board, chaired by Brent Woodworth, was given the mandate to set up an independent foundation.

Sahana GSoC Students Announced

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 into the GSoC program as well as all the other applicants as the field of candidates was truly outstanding. We look forward to working with these students throughout the summer and hope to form relationships that last for years to come for Sahana and the Humanitarian ICT communities. We thank all the students who have applied for this program and apologize that we were only able to accept such a limited number.

The following students have been accepted for this years program:

Kethees Selladurai
Ajay Kumar
Khushbu Mohta
Praneeth Bodduluri
Gihan Chamara
Hasanat Kazmi
Shree Kant Bohra
Nithin Dara
Iroshan Horathalge
Akshit Sharma

Descriptions of these projects can be found at http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/sahana .
Thank you,
David Bitner
Sahana PMC
Sahana Google Summer of Code Administrator