1. Shree Kant Bohra Sahana Student Google Summer of Code 2009 www.sahana.lk Sahana An Introduction toDisaster Management System

2. Agenda of this presentation:

Introduction to disaster management.

3. What is Sahana? 4. Sahana History, Present and Future. 5. Features of Sahana. 6. Sahana Deployments. 7. Interesting Projects in Sahana. 8. Contributing to Sahana Project. 9. Information about Sahana Hackfest. 10. Q & A Session. www.sahana.lk Sahana Software Foundation 11. www.sahana.lk Disaster Management Sahana Software Foundation 12.

Introduction to disaster management.

13. What is Sahana? 14. Sahana History, Present and Future. 15. Features of Sahana. 16. Sahana Deployments. 17. Interesting Projects in Sahana. 18. Contributing to Sahana Project. 19. Google Summer of Code. 20. Information about Sahana Hackfest. 21. Q & A Session. www.sahana.lk Disaster Management Natural calamaties cannot be avoided. Best efforts can be done to minimize the effect of these disaster. Mismanagement results into more damage to human life then the actual disaster. Disaster Management Systems help in managing post disaster chaos so that another disaster doesn't ouccur after the natural disaster due to human mistakes. Sahana Software Foundation 22. Disaster Management

Introduction to disaster management.

23. What is Sahana? 24. Sahana History, Present and Future. 25. Features of Sahana. 26. Sahana Deployments. 27. Interesting Projects in Sahana. 28. Contributing to Sahana Project. 29. Google Summer of Code. 30. Information about Sahana Hackfest. 31. Q & A Session. www.sahana.lk Sahana Software Foundation 32. www.sahana.lk Disaster Management Sahana Software Foundation After any disaster , govenmentsets up reliefcampsand provides aid to the displaced people. Interantional aid is also provided to the country. Aid includes food, water, drugs, clothes and other things.Proper distribution of these things needed to be done. Mismanagement results into not propely utilizing the aids being sent. 33. www.sahana.lk Disaster Management Sahana Software Foundation Software tools used for managing relief work: 1. Spreadsheets. 2. Accounting Softwares3. Office Tools. Lack of one complete package for disaster relief work management wasn't available.This results into need of a software package that can handle various tasks related to disaster Management. Hence Sahana was developed! 34. www.sahana.lk What is Sahana? Sahana Software Foundation 35. www.sahana.lk Sahana Software Foundation Sahana is web based application packageprovding solution to post disaster problemregarding various type of informationrequire to manage the disaster relief work. 36. www.sahana.lk History of Sahana Sahana Software Foundation Sahana Disaster Management System was developed after Tsunami 2004 by Lanka Software Foundation.The systemwas deployed by the Sri Lankan government's Center of National Operations (CNO), which included the Center of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA) The system was rebuilt from scratch in Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl. The system is available for free for anyone to download and customize and is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). 37. www.sahana.lk Current stable version: 0.6.2.2 Sahana Software Foundation 38. www.sahana.lk Sahana Software Foundation 39. www.sahana.lk Sahana Software Foundation The main applications built into Sahana and problems they address so far are as follows: 1. Missing Person Registry- Helping to reduce trauma by effectively finding missing persons 2. Organization Registry- Coordinating and balancing the distribution of relief organizations in the affected areas and connecting relief groups allowing them to operate as one3 .Request Management System- Registering and Tracking all incoming requests for support and relief upto fulfillment and helping donors connect to relief requirements Sahana 0.6.2.2 40. www.sahana.lk Sahana Software Foundation Sahana 0.6.2.2 4 .Camp Registry- Tracking the location and numbers of victims in the variouscamps and temporary shelters setup all around the affected area 5. Volunteer Management- Coordinate the contact info, skills, assignments and availability of volunteers and responders 6. Inventory Management- Tracking the location, quantities, expiry of suppliesstored for utilization in a disaster 7. Situation Awareness- Providing a GIS overview of the situation at hand forthe benefit of the decision makers 41. www.sahana.lk Sahana Software Foundation Missing Person Registry 4 .Camp Registry- Tracking the location and numbers of victims in the variouscamps and temporary shelters setup all around the affected area 5. Volunteer Management- Coordinate the contact info, skills, assignments and availability of volunteers and responders 6. Inventory Management- Tracking the location, quantities, expiry of suppliesstored for utilization in a disaster 7. Situation Awareness- Providing a GIS overview of the situation at hand forthe benefit of the decision makers 42. www.sahana.lk Sahana Software Foundation Diaster Victim Registry 43. www.sahana.lk Sahana Software Foundation Adminstration 44. www.sahana.lk Future- Sahana 1.0 Sahana Software Foundation 45.

Take a little longer than normal release schedule.

46. Clean up code 47. Fix all outstanding bugs 48. Rigorous bug test & QA 49. Professional packaging with installation/configuration scripts for windows, Linux, MAC OSX, Solaris, portable applets, etc. 50. Professional documentation for installation & end-users. Sahana 1.0 Release Plan Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk 51. www.sahana.lk Sahana Software Foundation

No, it wont be in Python.

52. No, it wont have all the bells and whistles planned for with the 0.7 and 0.8 releases and GSoC 2009 projects. 53. BUT when next major sudden onset disaster strikes, no one will hesitate to recommend Sahanas deployment. Sahana 1.0 launches Sahana into Stratosphere 54.

We need developers to support the 1.0 release.

55. Activities & tasks are documents on wiki:

http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php?id=dev:strategic_plan_for_proposed_public_stable_release_of_sahana_1.0

It is not amusing work, but fulfilling.You will be part of team that will make Sahana 1.0 a reality. 56. Get involved.On Sahana-Maindev; IRC #sahana We need your help Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk 57. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk Sahana Deployments 58. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk

CNO, for Tsunami in Sri Lanka 2005. Officially deployed and tracked approximately

59. 26,000 families. 60. NADRA, for Asian Quake in Pakistan 2005. Officially deployed and integrated with 61. NADRA (Pakistan Government) to track all victims. 62. For landslide disaster in Philippines 2005. Official deployment to track all victims, orgs 63. camps by Government. 64. Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia 2006. Deployed by ACS, Indonesian Reliefsource. 65. Earthquake in Peru 2007 66. Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh 2007 Major Sahana Deployments 67. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk

CNO, for Tsunami in Sri Lanka 2005. Officially deployed and tracked approximately

68. 26,000 families. 69. Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan 2005 70. NADRA, for Asian Quake in Pakistan 2005. Officially deployed and integrated with 71. NADRA (Pakistan Government) to track all victims. 72. For landslide disaster in Philippines 2005. Official deployment to track all victims, orgs 73. , camps by Government. 74. Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia 2006. Deployed by ACS, Indonesian Reliefsource. 75. Earthquake in Peru 2007 76. Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh 2007 Major Sahana DeploymentsContd.

Coastal Storm Plan in New York City 2007-present

77. Ica Earthquake, Peru 2007 78. Chendu-Sitzuan Province Earthquake, China 2008 79. A deployment in Bihar State, India, in 2008, following flooding. 80. National Disaster Management Center & Ministry of Resettlement & Disaster 81. Relief Services, Sri Lanka 2009 82. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk

Coastal Storm Plan in New York City 2007-present

83. Ica Earthquake, Peru 2007 84. Chendu-Sitzuan Province Earthquake, China 2008 85. A deployment in Bihar State, India, in 2008, following flooding. 86. National Disaster Management Center & Ministry of Resettlement & Disaster 87. Relief Services, Sri Lanka 2009 Interesting Sahana sub projects 88. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk Interesting Sahana sub projects Sahanapy This is a reimplementation of the originalSahana-idea to create a powerful RAD framework for Emergency Management Apps, ensuring a solid foundation for future enhancements by a diverse community of development groups. Its based on web2py framework. www.sahanapy.org 89. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk Interesting Sahana sub projects Why Sahanapy? Sahana is developed in a custom PHP framework which is based on designprinciples which have since become sub-optimal due to the emergence of newMVC frameworks & highly-interactive Web 2.0 UIs.The current codebase has grown organically since it was originally designed standards have broken down & the code is becoming harder to maintain.It is currently hard to access data from modules via consistent methods this is requiredfor serious integration e.g. in GIS & Messaging. 90. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk Interesting Sahana sub projects The current codebase has grown organically since it was originally designed standards have broken down & the code is becoming harder to maintain.Internationalizationi18n To design a software in a way that allows adaption to different languages and regionaldifferences without having to rework the code. 91. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk Interesting Sahana sub projects LocalizationL10N To adopt the software to the needs of particular language or region. 92. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk Interesting Sahana sub projects Sahana User Interface translation Sahana has already been translated in a number of languages which include Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, German, Tamil and more. Sahana uses POOTLE : PO based Online Translation and Localization Engine. Collobarative web based translation of Sahana Language files. Visit:http://translate.sahana.lkand help translating Sahana in your favorite language. 93. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk Contributing to Sahana Project 1. Documentation 2.Translation 3. Developer 4. Graphics Designer IRC #sahana Mailing lists: Sahana developers' list Installing Sahana 95. Using the Sahana WIKI , IRC, Mailing Lists 96. Understanding Sahana Framework 97. Introduction to Sahana Modules 98. Bug fixing 99. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk A hackfest on Sahana will be there in computer labs tonight. Be there to have insight into Sahana. The hackfest willinclude:

Installing Sahana

100. Using the Sahana WIKI , IRC, Mailing Lists 101. Understanding Sahana Framework 102. Introduction to Sahana Modules 103. Bug fixing Q & A There are no foolish questions, only fools don't ask questions. 104. Sahana Software Foundation www.sahana.lk Thanks Shree Kant Bohra IRC, Twitter : skbohra Jabber, Skype: skbohra123 Email:[email_address] Web: www.geekybuddha.org