Rcos eden fall10presentation1
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This document discusses developing a version of Sahana Eden, an open source disaster management system, to aid small artisanal cooperatives and organizations that work with them. The goal is to help artisans manage their businesses and fight poverty in developing countries. The author has conducted preliminary research on relevant organizations and plans to contact them, develop use cases, design a blueprint, implement the system, and potentially deploy it starting in early November. They thank those who have provided support and guidance.
Rcos eden fall10presentation1
- 1. RCOS Eden (Sahana Eden Development)Cihan Caglayan
- 2. IntroSahana Eden is:An HFOSS project A Disaster Management SystemGoverned by the Sahana Software FoundationBuilt on top of the web2py frameworkWritten primarily in pythonCurrently being deployed for the Pakistan flood relief
- 3. IntroSome Available ModulesDisaster Victim IdentificationShelter RegistryHospital Management SystemIncident ReportingBudgetingVolunteer Management
- 4. My ProjectDevelopers had interest in finding implementations of Sahana for the Development fieldDistinction: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 ProjectMy focus is on using fair trade enterprises to fight poverty in developing countriesSee a version of Eden developed to aid:Small scale artisans and artisanal cooperatives manage their businessesLarger orgs that work with such artisansLeverage existing modules as well as develop some new ones in the system
- 6. My MethodContacting Relevant OrgsDevelop Use CasesDesign a BlueprintImplementationDeployment?
- 7. Preliminary ResearchThree organizationsTen Thousand Villages – SuggestedWomen for Women InternationalWomen of the Cloud ForestDetailed information available on blog
- 8. Tasks/SchedulePreliminary Research (Done)Contacting the organizations (In Progress)Learning technologies (In Progress)Learning web2py ( so far)Bug FixesTestingDoc writingConcrete GoalBegin development of new implementation starting in the beginning of November
- 9. Thanks!Thanks toProf. MoorthySean O’SullivanHelpful Sahana Eden DevelopersFellow RCOS membersYou’ll see code up in my repo really soon! I promise!