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-