Hi Jopie, Pleased to meet you. Right now we are pooling togeather people from various groups who are interested in contributing to this project and you are...
Hi Paul, it was great meeting you too.. looking forward to setting up the consortium of projects in Humanitarian ICT and develop a consolidated framework so...
Hi All, We were asked to write a small article for the local BCS magazine on Shahana and the potential for humanitarian FOSS. You can find our final draft at...
Hi Chamindra and all interested persons on this list. The article is very positive and congratulations on your efforts and the work completed thus far. I have...
Dear Don Thanks for your thoughts on Sahana. I'm not one of the developers, but I thought I'd reply in any case. You have hit one of the key problems in the...
Hi Paul, Thank you for your response, and I agree entirely with your assessment of much of the humanitarian sector. As a brief background; one of my more...
Hi Paul, Don, Firstly it is great to have both of you as domain experts involved in providing leadership on this project. I myself have no exposure to SEMS and...
Hi Gavin, Pleased to meet a fellow advocate for the use of FOSS in "Humanitarian ICT". Please feel free to download the current system and try it out, however...
Hi Tom, Sorry for replying so late on this query. Yes definitely we are interested in coveting the existing Sahana stuff to XHTML/CSS. In fact that would have...
... I would be delighted to assist. I am giving a talk to IT professionals and government people in Canberra this week to propose Australia assist in such ...
Thats great Tom. The more people we can get involved in terms of contribution and awareness from a global community the better this project will do in terms of...
Hi All, We will be looking to start working on Sahana phase II from July. As we now have a sizable leadership group, I though it would be good if we could...
Hi team, Chamindra thank you for the introduction and this opportunity to meet each other. My name is Don Cameron. In two months time I am celebrating my 20th...
Don, it is great to have your experience on this team.. Don't worry you will not be expected to code, but we would greatly value the direction on the...
... My name is Tom Worthington (Tomw). I would like to help design an efficient web based user interface for Sahana which adapts to multiple languages, low ...
Thanks for the introduction Tom. The user interface of Sahana will be a critical piece. As you said it needs to be very accessible for use by a layman at the...
Hi to everybody, those I've met and those I haven't. My name's Paul Currion, and my details are mainly as Chamindra outlined. Although currently with WFP,...
Hi David, Sanjiva wanted me to keep you in the loop on the next phase of Sahana. My name is Chamindra de Silva and I will be leading phase II of the Sahana...
Hi Clinton, Thanks for the question. I am going to copy our Sahana leadership team (which includes Don) as it is a decision we all would have to make. ... ...
Hi Guys, I'm sorry for not introducing myself earlier .. thanks Chamindra for getting this going! I used to work in IBM Research until last Friday .. since...
FYI: This is a problem area that we will probably come across in our architecture discussion. This was in response to a request on schema mapping and resolving...
Hi All, Sorry for the slight lull on the mailing list, but this has been due to the preparations we have been making over here to start the Sahana project....
Hi All, I have collated our current high-level plan and extracts on the Sahana Vision into one live master doc. I hope to transport this to the Wiki site as...
Chamindra as always this is excellent and inspirational work. Looking towards Phase II, would it be possible to peruse the underlying database dictionaries? -...
Sure Don, please do go ahead and make the first stab at this. AFAIK You are spot on in that: 1) one of the challenges we face is the dynamic extensibility of...
Wonder if you have any ideas on this. I am in the process of reviewing a few wikis with the following features to complement the Sahana sourceforge project...
Paul Currion is presently in Sri Lanka and we had a meeting around Sahana. Here are the main points of discussion: - We agreed defining the data dictionary is...
Hi Chamindra, all, If you would like a completely "raw" draft schema I'm more than happy to put one together - If OK I'll do this without referencing existing...
PS - For the people registry I was planning to recommend a schema based on the top level of the Interpol Disaster Victim Identification Guide - This has mostly...
