SAHANA

Conference 2009

24^th, 25th March – Colombo.

At the HNB tower’s in Colombo, Sri Lanka there was the conference of “SAHANA” –a disaster management system that truly relieves to the countries which are always been affect and threats to be affect from natural disasters.

It is well organized by FOSS.lk, LSF (Lanka software foundation) and so many contributors regarding with this manner.

As a UCSC (University of Colombo, School of computing ) student I have a valuable chance to participate to this valuable occasion with my other guys(wanna,Pala,Hulan,Kajja,Wassa,Sira,Nala,Parakkuwa,natta) .

Dr Sanjeewa Weerawarna(LSF) did the welcome speech and Mr Brent Woodworth (President and CEO, Global Crisis Services ,Inc.) did the Keynote speech. Mr. Chamindra De Silva (PMC Sahana, Virtusa) explained about the History and evolution of Sahana Community .By order Mr. Mifan Careem(PMC Sahana ,CTO respire), Dominic Konig(PMC,Sahana) ,Wasantha Deshapriya (Programme Director Re Engineering Government),Martin Thomsan,Gavin Treagold(Director Kestrel Group), Ajay Kumar(FLOSS Fellow) did “Veni,Vidi ,SAHAN”-Sahana in the field, Sahana Internationalization, Sahana IN SL Government , On site operations co-ordinttion , GIS in disaster management, SAHANA community building in India.

There was a panel discussion at the end of the Conference and some of the problems regarding with the SAHANA system and other main topics and questionnaires will be discussed successfully.

Udaya Shamendara(UCSC)

-UDSHA-

What happen to Firefox

What happen to Firefox

“Welcome to the 2008 Impact Mozilla Challenge

With our Impact Mozilla contest, we put our Firefox marketing efforts in the hands of our community. A public vote was recently held to evaluate and judge our ten outstanding finalists and their comprehensive marketing plans. Thousands of votes were cast to determine which set of strategies and tactics should become reality.”

This is some information on the Firefox’s sub site http://impactmozilla.com/ .

According to their web site Firefox has little decrease of users than other web browsers. Because of that they organized a contest named “Impact Mozilla”.

According to the ideas of me some of the reasons that I mentioned below are affect that trend of people have.

What happen to Firefox

· Flock and Google chrome web site have some uncompetitive features than Firefox web browser. Those features directly aimed modern trends. Some of those are minimum response time (specially for Google Chrome) blog viewing facility (only for Flock), inbuilt blog editing, separate panels for viewing images/videos from YouTube/flickr/Picasa or their famous web sites, easy access of news feeds, easy access to FaceBook, different GUI (human beings are always like variation-“I like Google Chrome’s GUI-It’s so simple”) and such kind of social sites and many more.

· But the Firefox haven’t those kinds of features (except minimum response time). But Flock is much slower than in response time and some features due to its heavy workforce that holds it on.

Feature	Google Chrome	Flock	Mozilla Firefox
Speed(Response time)	Very good	good	Very good
Built in Blog Editing	Haven’t	Have	Haven’t
Inbuilt news feed reader	have	Have(very good –I like that very much)	Haven’t
Built in Blog uploading	Haven’t	Have	Haven’t
GUI-state	Very Good(I like that )	Very Good	Good
Memory Usage	minimum	Maximum(that’s the feature which I don’t like)	Balanced

· Because of these big amounts of reasons Mozilla have to turning on to the way like Flock’s and Google Chrome’s interface developing.

In this time of world used and want MULTI PURPOSE appliances also including software. Therefore web browsers must have more built in features with a very good speed.

Thanks,

UDSHA-Udaya (ududsha@gmail.com)

Blogged with the Flock Browser

What happen to Firefox

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