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- | ====== Sahana | + | ====== Sahana |
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- | The **Mission** of the Sahana Software Foundation is to help alleviate human suffering by giving emergency managers, disaster response professionals and communities access to the information that they need to better prepare for and respond to disasters through the development and promotion of free and open source software and open standards.\\ | + | |
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- | The Sahana Software Foundation was established in 2009 as a non-profit organization to serve the needs and requirements of a diverse group of customers: | + | |
- | * Government agencies and jurisdictions at the national, provincial or state, and local levels | + | |
- | * UN Agencies, international and local charitable organizations (NGOs) | + | |
- | * Communities & disaster victims | + | |
- | * Technology companies & software developers\\ | + | |
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- | Our **Vision** is to build and sustain a global open and collaborative community of contributors to information and communications technologies for disaster management, in order to: | + | |
- | * Support the needs of Sahana customers through promoting and developing innovative open source solutions for disaster information management | + | |
- | * Support the adoption of open standards for data exchange between information systems to manage disaster data. \\ | + | |
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- | In order to fulfill its mission and vision, we have identified the following Objectives to guide Foundation activities: | + | |
- | * Help alleviate human suffering and help save lives through the efficient and effective use of technology after a disaster | + | |
- | * Bring efficiencies to disaster response coordination through facilitating effective information sharing between disaster responders and beneficiaries | + | |
- | * Empower disaster victims and responders by providing them with the information they need to help themselves and others | + | |
- | * Build resilience and preparedness through training, education and the deployment of systems for managing disaster information in advance of a disaster. | + | |
- | * Provide a nurturing environment for community development of humanitarian free and open source software applications that support all four phases of emergency management\\ | + | |
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- | Please visit the [[foundation: | + | |
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- | ====== Sahana and the Google Summer of Code 2010 ====== | + | |
- | The Sahana Software Foundation is a Mentoring Organization for the 2010 Google Summer of Code. \\ | + | |
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- | Please visit [[foundation: | + | |
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- | ====== Sahana Response to Haiti Earthquakes ====== | + | |
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- | ====== Sahana Information Library ====== | + | |
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- | The Sahana Disaster Management System Information Library has several wikis. | + | |
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- | If you are keen to experience Sahana' | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
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- | If you like to contribute to the documentation of this WIKI, please ask for a username from any of the [[http:// | + | |
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- | ===== For Organisations Considering Sahana ====== | + | |
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- | Sahana is a web-based disaster management application that provides management solutions, focusing on large-scale humanitarian disasters. It enables enhanced coordination by promoting integrated information gathering. It assists collaboration by providing a number of communication mechanisms in the aftermath of a disasters. Sahana is built from free and open source software and released under [[http:// | + | |
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- | == How Sahana is Useful in Disaster Situations == | + | |
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- | Sahana functions both **online** as well as a **stand alone** tool for disaster management, depending on the operational considerations. Users can access it via their local machine, from within the network, as part of a corporate intranet or anywhere in world via the Internet. This means it can be installed on a laptop, for workers in the field and at a central command center for overall coordination. When machines are linked, all information can be synchronised, | + | |
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- | == Supported Operating Systems and Web Browsers == | + | |
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- | Sahana supports **all modern operating systems and browsers**, including MS Windows, Mac OSX, Ubuntu and other Unix-like systems. Your browser must have JavaScript enabled and, for Agasti, your operating system must be able to run the [[wp> | + | |
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- | == Deployments and Case Studies == | + | |
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- | Sahana' | + | |
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- | == Advocacy and Training Material == | + | |
- | * Introductory: | + | |
- | * Case Studies: \\ | + | |
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- | * Training: [[training: | + | |
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- | == Awards and Recognition == | + | |
- | * Gartner Inc. Cool Vendor in Risk Management and Compliance - 2010 | + | |
- | * Public Private Businesses Inc. Best Practices Award - 2010 | + | |
- | * Sourceforge Community Choice Awards Best Project for Government Finalist - 2009 | + | |
- | * Free Software Foundation Award for Social Benefit - 2006 | + | |
- | * SHG Good Samaritan Award - 2006 | + | |
- | * Sourceforge Project of the Month - June 2006 | + | |
- | * User Award from Redhat Summit - 2005 | + | |
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+ | 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 [[doc: | ||
===== Installation Guides ===== | ===== Installation Guides ===== | ||
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===== For Users ===== | ===== For Users ===== | ||
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- **Support by Email** \\ Please subscribe to the Sahana User list sahana-user@lists.sourceforge.net [[https:// | - **Support by Email** \\ Please subscribe to the Sahana User list sahana-user@lists.sourceforge.net [[https:// | ||
- | - **IRC** \\ Sahana developers are available on [[wp> | + | - **IRC** \\ Sahana developers are available on [[wp> |
- **Launchpad Answers** \\ Visit [[https:// | - **Launchpad Answers** \\ Visit [[https:// | ||
- **Mailing List Info** \\ Visit [[dev: | - **Mailing List Info** \\ Visit [[dev: | ||
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===== For Administrators ===== | ===== For Administrators ===== | ||
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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: | 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: | ||
- | * Fran Boon - francisboon [at] googlemail.com | ||
* Tim McNamara - mcnamara.tim [at] gmail.com | * Tim McNamara - mcnamara.tim [at] gmail.com | ||
* Dominic Konig - dominic [at] nursix.org (main access person for translators) | * Dominic Konig - dominic [at] nursix.org (main access person for translators) |