[DLC][OT] about Haiti

Sam Faci <[email protected]>
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I know a few of these things have been floating around.  It's a worthy
cause.. read it if you're interested, otherwise.. disregard.



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From: Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:19 PM
Subject: [DLC]about Haiti
To: DePaul Linux Community - Discuss <[email protected]>



Sahana is the leading Open Source Disaster Management system, conceived
during the 2004 Sri Lanka
tsunami<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake>.
The system was developed to help manage the disaster and was deployed by the
Sri Lankan government's Center of National Operations (CNO), which included
the Center of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA). A second round of funding was
provided by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). The project
has now grown to become globally recognized, with deployments in many other
disasters such as the Asian Quake in Pakistan (2005), Southern Leyte
Mudslide Disaster in Philippines (2006) and the Jogjarkata Earthquake in
Indonesia (2006).  Sahanapy is the next generation of the software.
[from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahana_FOSS_Disaster_Management_System]

The developers are in talks with US State Department, Search & RescueTeams,
UN, Haiti Foreign office in order to provide free Disaster Management
Support to Haiti.



They need Python programmers and people to do data entry. This is one of the
many requests for help that circulate:


http://groups.google.com/group/michipug/browse_thread/thread/e3e7700e7970059

You can read more about the Haiti Emergency response here:

      http://sahanapy.org/wiki/Haiti

If you want to help please contact them directly. I offer to provide some
training about the software if needed.

Massimo

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