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Sahana Phase2
This is the home of the Sahana Phase 2 WIKI. If you wish to develop with Sahana Phase 2 it is recommended that you use the Sahana Portable App which has an integrated development environment. Click here
Installation Guides
Click here for detailed guides on how to download and install Sahana.
For Users
Please note, not all module are present in released versions of Sahana (v0.6 - v1.0). Some modules are only currently available in either the trunk and/or the Google Summer of Code development repositories. These modules will become available in future releases of Sahana. Examples of this are the Resources and Snapshot modules.
The Sahana community has a friendly community to help with bugs and to receive suggestions, improvement ideas and feature requests.
Support Options
- Support by Email
Please subscribe to the Sahana User list sahana-user@lists.sourceforge.net by clicking here. - Launchpad Answers
Visit https://answers.launchpad.net/sahana. - Mailing List Info
Visit here.
For Administrators
These guides illustrate the functions of the Adminstration module. Administrators should be familiar with Sahana's user privilege and situation management hierarchies and best practices for deployment.
- Disaster Incidents - Allows you to set up disasters, events and incidents.
- Location Config - Disaster location configuration.
- GIS Config - Configure Sahana's situation mapping functionality.
- Localization - Language and language translation.
- Module Config - Add, remove and configure the modules permitted for the deployment.
- Security Config - Configure security policies for the Sahana installation.
- Config Values - Advanced configuration options.
For Trainers
The Sahana Training Program is a week-long induction programme. Here are the course materials.
For Software Developers
Sahana is always looking for developers have have experience in PHP, JavaScript and Python. Here is some useful information if you are considering deploying or developing the application.
- Deployments wiki - Capturing best practices for deploying Sahana.
- Development wiki - Conventions, Guides and HOWTOs for the Sahana developer.
- Standards wiki - Sahana Development and Interop Standards.
- Requirements wiki - Capturing pending requirements for Sahana modules.
The Path To 1.0
Biosurveillance Project
- Description of the pilot project: “Evaluating a real-time biosurveillance program”.
- User Requirement Specifications based on case studies in Tamil Nadu, India and Sri Lanka.
- Biosurveillance Module Data entry and standard reports PHP web application and database software requirement specifications.
- m-HealthSurvey Field data collection J2ME mobile application software requirements specifications.
- T-Cube Web Interface spatio-temporal event detection software requirement specifications.
- CAP Alerting Module software requirement specifications.
For Translators
The Localization and Translation wiki captures techniques for localizing and translating Sahana. It explains how to translate the application for new countries, regions and groups.
For Designers
The Design wiki is where the community unleashes its design skills.
For Documentation Writers
Access
If you need access permission for any of these wikis, please send an email to any of the following wiki administrators. Please include a reason for needing access:
- Tim McNamara - mcnamara.tim [at] gmail.com
- Dominic Konig - dominic [at] nursix.org (main access person for translators)
- David Bitner - bitner [at] dbspatial.com (main access person for GSoC)
- Ravindra de Silva - ravindra [at] opensource.lk
- Pradeeper Darmedra - pradeeper [at] opensource.lk
- Mifan Careem - mifan [at] opensource.lk
- Chamindra de Silva - chamindra [at] opensource.lk
Translation of Wiki Pages
Sahana wiki pages in other languages than English might be found by appending the ISO 639-1 language code to the namespace of the page, e.g.:
- start (original page) ⇒ start:de (German translation)
- dev:home (original page) ⇒ dev:home:ar (Arabic translation)
If you want to create a translated wiki page, please follow the Wiki Translation Guide
Other Project Information
Project Governance
- Sahana Software Foundation wiki - Information on the Sahana Software Foundation
- Policy and PMC wiki - Policy on the Governance of Sahana
- Temporary area for proposals and ideas for improving Sahana
Academic Research
- Research and Publications wiki - Sahana Research and publications
Image Credits
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