Hello All,
As some of you may know the Sahana Eden Open Source Disaster Management Project is a platform built on web2py to provide tools to disaster management professionals and aid workers responding to events such as the flooding in Pakistan at the moment. Currently Pakistan is in the middle of one of the biggest disasters ever, with 20 million people displaced. We've deployed Sahana to try and help with coordination and to provide visibility and transparency to the relief efforts: http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org And are working around the clock to develop new features to provide more assistance. We would welcome any further contributions from the wider Web2Py community. Details can be found here: http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/PakistanDevelopers And open tickets here: http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/report/16 One thing which I would like to see in trunk is an improved widget for the upload field, so that you can see the file name, and not just "file". Fran Boon (the Chair of the Sahana Eden Project Management Committee) have been doing our bit to promote Sahana Eden and Web2Py at "SahanaCamps" which we have run in India and Taiwan. Some of our training material (which covers both Web2py and the Sahana Eden frameworks) can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/AidIQ/sahana-introduction-to-the-code-v2 Cheers Michael more info: ---- The Sahana Software Foundation have a site up to support the Floods Response in Pakistan: http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org Although there are a number of information management tools providing resources on the Pakistan Flood Response, Sahana specialises in providing open data which means that instead of just providing narrative documents which need to be manually searched for the required data, it can provide the raw data, in various formats, including on maps, to help the relief efforts and longer term recovery. Sahana is built on an open source Rapid Application Development framework and supported by a global community of volunteers, which means that new features can quickly developed in response to changing requirements on-the-ground. For more information on how you can either use Sahana or help contribute to the effort, please visit: http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/Pakistan Or join: sahana-pakistan-2...@googlegroups.com Michael Howden Sahana Software Foundation The Sahana Software Foundation's mission 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.
