Sahana Software Foundation

The main goal of the SahanaCamp program is to quick start deployments of Sahana software while building a local support community for local or national emergency and disaster response organizations.  A SahanaCamp is typically held over a 2- to 4-day period and provides a variety of experiences for attendees to work with Sahana software from both a user and a technical perspective.  This includes: 
an understanding of how Sahana software can help manage information before, during and after disasters;
a practical technical workshop to provide instruction in how Sahana software can be deployed within and across organizations;
a forum to discuss and share best practices in the use of information tools for disaster and emergency management, which may include simulations and exercises.

One purpose of the Sahana Software Foundation is to promote the adoption of Sahana software, the principles of humanitarian free and open source software, and collaborative open source approaches to disaster information manangement.  The goal of the Sahana Advocacy Program is to fundamentally transform the way disaster response occurs through innovative solutions to coordination challenges.  Through the Sahana Ontology Project, we will seek to address the needs of government agencies, humanitarian organizations and communities to be able to aggregate and federate data from multiple sources by maintaining a published disaster management information systems ontology as a means for understanding and enabling interoperability between disaster management information systems.