ICN Congress Update
The 24th ICN Quadrennial Congress is over, and I meanwhile have successfully crossed the euro-african holiday traffic and safely returned to Sweden (after all, a bit disappointed again about the attitude and behaviour of my german fellow countrymen, though).
Special regards here to the two colleagues who shared the same talk session at the congress:
L. Little (Canada)
Protecting The Public: Effective Disaster Deployment of Nurses
and
R. Chantra (Thailand)
A development of extra-curriculum for nursing competencies in the preparation for tsunami disaster for nursing students
I would be glad if you could share your slides, you can find mine here:
http://pub.nursix.org/sahana/pub/presentation.pdf
Together, our presentations treated the full range from capacity building over contingency planning to emergency information management, complementary in a way that in my presentation I could easily pick up some aspects from the previous speakers.
Sahana @ ICN Congress 2009
I will give a talk on
“Implementation of Health Management Features in the Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System”
at the 24th Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in Durban/South Africa, which takes place June 27th to July 4th, 2009.
The International Council of Nurses is a federation of national nurses’ associations (NNAs), representing millions of nurses in more than 128 countries – and it is the world’s widest reaching international organisation for health professionals.
Venue data:
Session C.645 Pandemics/Disasters
02/07/2009, 14:30-15:50 (Presentation start at 15:30)
Hall 2D
International Convention Centre
45 Ordnance Road, Durban/South Africa
www.icc.co.za
More information about the congress can be found at: www.icn.ch/congress2009/index.htm
Sahana workshop in Göteborg
I have attended the Sahana workshop in Göteborg (Sweden) last Sunday, where we discussed about the deployment of Sahana for the management of recurrent flood disasters in Mozambique.
This deployment is part of the IRMA project (Integrated Risk Management for Africa), which is a European research project funded by the European Commission.
 Chamindra, me (Sahana) |
 Bartel van de Walle (ISCRAM) |
 Lourino Chemane (UTICT Mozambique) |
 Ingo Simonis (IRMA) |
The Sahana team will support building up a local Sahana cluster in Mozambique mainly by sharing knowledge with local developers, in terms of providing developer trainings and participating in an on-site Sahana workshop later this year. Starting within this project, we hope to build sustaining capacity and an active community for Sahana in Africa.
Sahana 2009 Conference
The first ever Sahana 2009 Conference in Colombo is over, and I safely returned to Sweden. Thanks to our host, the Lanka Software Foundation, for the excellent arrangement and all the comfort we experienced.
It was an impressive event and an exciting tour from the history to future of the Sahana project, with interesting insights and prospects on ICT in emergency management. But it was also hard work to build the future of Sahana, mainly at the meetings and discussions – offline and online – from breakfast to late night.
The first two days were dominated by a long list of presentations, and many first ever face-to-face meetings of Sahana people who only knew each other from chatrooms and mailing lists. In the course of this conference I also had the chance to present my paper about Sahana Internationalization, and to sow some ideas in this regard.
On the third day, Respere had invited for a Barcamp which turned out to a great chance for understanding among project leads, emergency management experts and code writers. Many of the discussions started there still continue on the main development mailing lists and are echoed in the Sahana GSoC proposals.
On the same day we started with the Sahana.next meetings where we discussed about the future operative structure and governance of the Sahana project, in order to continue fostering Sahana as a global free and open-source software project. As a result of this some pathbreaking decisions have been made, which will now be implemented within the next months. More details and recent news about this can always be found on the Sahana website.
European Union Public License 1.1 now OSI-approved
The Open Source Initiative (OSI), one of the principal advocacy organisations on open source software, has unanimously approved the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) version 1.1, published by the European Comission, as an open source licence, on March 4th.
This is really great news!
EUPL v 1.1 is available in all official EU languages with all language versions being fully equivalent, it is GPL compatible, and it explicitly addresses the software patent issue. EUPL has been elaborated in adequate consideration of both the European Union Law as well as of the specificity and diversity of Member States Law, so that the license would reliably have the same legal effect in all EU member states.
An approved and accepted F/OSS license issued by a high EU governmental entity builds an atmosphere of trust, and gives – once more – great encouragement and appreciation to the open source community in Europe.
With this in mind – many thanks to all contributors! Great work!
YaNuCa 1.2 released
YaNuCa 1.2 is out!
New:
- complete rewrite of the core library
- goal setting for lipid partition (e.g., in cases of extreme hyperlipidemia)
- tooltips for option fields
- new HowTo
- slightly reworked UI
- eliminated needless factors from requirements calculation
Idle?
While dipping my nose into morning coffee and thinking about how to speed up my neurons, I stumbled over U.S. Patent Nr. 5,498,162
Ok ok – this helped…
Currently I’m heavily working to get out YaNuCa 1.2 next week – there are still a few things to be finetuned.
The Free and Open Source Software Community of Sri Lanka (foss.lk) is hosting the first annual SAHANA Conference on March 24 & 25, 2009 in Colombo/Sri Lanka, which will surely become one of the most important events in the history of this project – and hopefully pathbreaking for its future. Therefore, I see to attend it if somehow possible.
YaNuCa 1.2 beta
A demo of YaNuCa 1.2 beta can now be tested at:
New:
- complete rewrite of the core library
- goal setting for lipid partition (e.g., in cases of extreme hyperlipidemia)
- tooltips for option fields (uses jQuery/clueTip)
IMPORTANT: This version is still untested and just for preview/testing purposes, please do not use its results in patients unless you’ve thoroughly checked!
Thanks for any feedback!
Sahana now comes in two flavours
The development of a new codebase for the Sahana project has begun: SahanaPy.
SahanaPy is a ground-up rewrite of Sahana Phase 2 for web2py, which is a MVC web application framework for Rapid Application Development based on Python. The SahanaPy codebase also introduces distributed version control with Bazaar – with the main repository currently hosted on Launchpad.
Links:
Jag är tillbaka!
Yeah – moving here was a very stressful venture, but we’ve got it made, and now I have even a working Internet connection again. So, I’m back – from new location, a thousand kilometers northern from the last.
It will take some time to read the more than 400 messages I’ve got in the meantime, so please be patient for any answers.
