2. Intro Sahana Eden is: An HFOSS project A Disaster Management System Governed by the Sahana Software Foundation Built on top of the web2py framework Written primarily in python Currently being deployed for the Pakistan flood relief
3. Intro Some Available Modules Disaster Victim Identification Shelter Registry Hospital Management System Incident Reporting Budgeting Volunteer Management
4. My Project Developers had interest in finding implementations of Sahana for the Development field Distinction: Relief aid – Aid to directly alleviate ongoing suffering (famine aid, disaster relief, etc.) Development aid – Aid that focuses on helping “Third World” regions and their people develop (infrastructure, access to credit, education)
5. My Project My focus is on using fair trade enterprises to fight poverty in developing countries See a version of Eden developed to aid: Small scale artisans and artisanal cooperatives manage their businesses Larger orgs that work with such artisans Leverage existing modules as well as develop some new ones in the system
6. My Method Contacting Relevant Orgs Develop Use Cases Design a Blueprint Implementation Deployment?
7. Preliminary Research Three organizations Ten Thousand Villages – Suggested Women for Women International Women of the Cloud Forest Detailed information available on blog
8. Tasks/Schedule Preliminary Research (Done) Contacting the organizations (In Progress) Learning technologies (In Progress) Learning web2py ( so far) Bug Fixes Testing Doc writing Concrete Goal Begin development of new implementation starting in the beginning of November
9. Thanks! Thanks to Prof. Moorthy Sean O’Sullivan Helpful Sahana Eden Developers Fellow RCOS members You’ll see code up in my repo really soon! I promise!
