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| 8 | Sahana-Eden offered a promising open source solution for coordination both within and between CERTs. Since Chicago CERT and Sahana-Eden first collaborated in late 2010, we have talked to dozens of CERTs teams to design a solution specific to CERTs and their unique needs and workflows. |
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| 10 | Our goal is to make the Sahana-CERT branch intuitive and flexible, to allow it to be used easily by non-technical CERT coordinators but still allow access to Sahana's powerful functionality. Our focus at Random Hacks of Kindness 2011 was to create a comfortable, intuitive interface that would allow any CERT coordinator to use Sahana-Eden "out of the box". The RHoK team did an amazing job, which can be seem at the demo site, and won first place at RHoK Austin for their work. |
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| 12 | We are already getting requests from CERTs all over the United States who are desperate for a solution like this. CERTs receive relatively little funding, most of which goes to training and equipment for their volunteers. Many coordinators have neither the time to implement a custom solution nor the money to purchase a commercial solution. |
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| 14 | The opportunity to have a world class system like Sahana-Eden, customized for CERTs, just for the cost of maintaining the instance is a wonderful thing. After evaluation of our beta implementation with City of Chicago, the Sahana-CERT branch will be available for use by every CERT in the country. This could improve the emergency response outcomes of hundreds of communities struck by local and large scale disasters. |
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| 16 | Our next big push, which we hope to complete over this years Summer Of Code, includes the following: |
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| 19 | Sahana supports Rapid Application Development and has a worldwide network of generous, knowledgeable developers. This event is an excellent introduction to developing for the Sahana platform. If you know Python, JavaScript or CSS design, please consider joining the collaboration! |
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| 22 | The Sahana/CERT collaboration was started at RHoK December 2010: |