Google investing USD$50,000 in Sahana
Well, it has been a lot of work for the admins, the mentors, and the students, but it has paid off. The Sahana has been awarded 10 projects in the 2009 Summer of Code. We have some great projects lined up! The include:
- Person Registry for Sahana
- Warehouse Management
- Disaster Victim Identification
- J2ME clients for form data collection in the field
- Optical Character Recognition for scanning forms
- Peer to peer synchronisation of Sahana servers
- CAP Aggregation and Firefox CAP plugin
- CAP Editing and Publishing
- Mashup/Aggregation Dashboard
- Theme Manager
Having been neck deep in the process; working with others to set up our assessment process, coming up with ideas (I’m stoked to have two students working on CAP ideas that came out of my earlier suggestion), and reviewing each and every of the 45 proposals we recieved, it has been exciting to get so many projects accepted.
I think that by the end of the year, we are going to have some great new functionality available in Sahana. Even more, I hope we’ll attract more open source developers to our ever growing community!