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Free and Open Source Software for Crisis Management by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-01-19 07:19 AM

After the tragic events that came to pass, several groups and organizations of the Sri Lankan ICT industry, including LK-LUG,have got together to create a complete disaster management system for Sri Lanka.

Open Source Used for Tsunami Management System by Russell John — last modified 2005-02-01 11:28 AM

A web services architect in Sri Lanka has worked with several programmers in the country's IT industry to build a collection of open source web applications for managing the fallout from the tsunami which devastated the country in December.

Taprobane 0.4.1 LiveCD Launched by Chamindra de Silva — last modified 2005-10-05 01:39 AM

Taprobane version 0.4.1 has been launched with many new features. It has also been recently registered on DistroWatch.

Google funds Sri Lanka’s open source development by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2006-08-20 08:52 PM

Aug 04 (LBO) – Popular Internet search engine Google has given the Lanka Software Foundation 25,000 dollars to drive open source software projects locally.

ChangeLog: Sahana Project, Ted Ts'o, receive FSF Awards by Myk Gumapos — last modified 2007-03-27 02:20 PM

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced the recipients of the 2006 FSF Awards. The Award for Projects of Social Benefit was given to Sahana, a free software project created for managing disaster relief, and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software went to Theodore Ts'o for his lifetime contributions, including his work on the Linux kernel.