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ChangeLog: Sahana Project, Ted Ts'o, receive FSF Awards
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.
As we reported last year, Sahana began development during the relief efforts in Southeast Asia after the tsunami of 2004. The founding team of Sri Lankan developers from the Lanka Software Foundation released the first version of the software after three days of work, and have continued to develop it since. The software is designed to handle problems common to disaster relief, such as searching for missing people and coordinating volunteers. Sahana is now being used by the Sri Lankan Red Cross and the Sri Lankan Government Disaster Management Center, as well as nongovernmental organizations such as Bicolrelief in the Philippines and Humanitarian Emergency Logistics and Preparedness, a worldwide humanitarian relief agency. Sahana was also used in Strong Angel III, a test of civil and military disaster response in the United States.
Source: Linux.com
