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 Software Foundation a Mentoring Organization for the 2010 Google Summer of Code

The Sahana Software Foundation has again been selected as a mentoring organization for the 2010 Google Summer of Code. We are thrilled to be selected to participate in such a great program that helps bring new developers into open source projects. Sahana has benefited greatly from participating in GSOC since 2006, and we are working to expand our pool of mentors this year so we can support even more GSOC projects and students.

Please visit our main GSOC page on our wiki for more information.

Interested Students: If you are a student who is interested in participating in the GSoC this year, we would encourage you to review our ideas pages and our student guidelines on the Sahana Wiki. Once you have reviewed that information, we invite you to discuss any ideas that you may have on the Sahana developers mailing list or via IRC (#sahana on Freenode). See http://www.sahanafoundation.org/chat) for more information. Students who take the opportunity to discuss their ideas with the Sahana development team will definitely have an easier time pulling together quality proposals.

Interested Mentors: If you are an active Sahana Contributor and would like to be involved in the GSoC as a mentor, please first sign up on our mentor's list. Former Sahana GSOC students are strongly encouraged to serve as mentors this year as we will not be considering GSOC applications from former Sahana GSOC students. Please also post your ideas for projects you would be interested in mentoring to the ideas pages.

More announcements will be made here and on the wiki.

Sahana Response to Haiti and Chile

The Sahana Community is responding to the disasters in Haiti and Chile. Please visit and http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org and http://chile.sahanafoundation.org. We are happy to work with anyone who needs Sahana for a deployment in Haiti or Chile.

We are 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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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.