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[Gavin Treadgold <gt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pradeeper - thanks for coming forward with the offer, and I'm glad I  
can talk a little more openly about SaaS :)

I think the immediate step is for us in NZ to figure out the best  
approach for who to offer. Perhaps NZAID is the first approach to be  
made, as they are responsible for coordinating NZ assistance to  
international events.

Perhaps something that we could start working on, is trying to source  
vector and raster data for populating the mapping servers for the  
service? Perhaps we can start identifying data sources on the NZ  
Cluster list as well.

Tim - does LP have a wiki we can capture this stuff? If so, we'll  
capture it there for the time being.

Cheers Gav


On 2009-10-01, at 18:41 , Pradeeper wrote:

> Dear Cluster Members,
>
> Firstly, our prayers and thoughts go to all who were affected by the
> tsunami in the Samoa area. Gavin, thanks for tweeting about it. Phew -
> there certainly seems to be an increase in disasters these past few
> days!
>
> We'd like to offer our helping hand during this period to assist our
> friends in the region. We have plans to release Sahana SaaS in latter
> part of October - the Sahana Software as a Service version for  
> community
> response to disasters, available free of charge to response groups.  
> This
> would be a SaaS management platform which can host and maintain  
> multiple
> Sahana applications, with the following additional capabilities, as  
> well
> as all the other advantages of a SaaS implementation,
>
> o Sahana application setup instantaneously within seconds (fully
> automated)
> o Schedule backup and restore (no technical knowledge needed)
> o Download backups to local machine anytime (through SSL)
> o Secure access through SSL
> o Integration with GIS servers
> o Messaging and Alerting capability
> o 24x7 monitoring and support from development team
> o Community support forums
>
> It runs on world class servers (Rackspace) and can be setup instantly
> and accessed from any where whilst being supported by a dedicated  
> group
> of Sahana developers during this period.
>
> Since you already have an active community in the area, I'm sure we  
> can
> work together to help the affected regions in someway. We can offer  
> any
> agency (government/non-government) an instance of Sahana-SaaS which  
> can
> be used to assist in the relief operations currently underway. We'd  
> like
> to hear your thoughts on this, and how we can effectively offer this
> free service to the authorities.
>
> Please let me know asap whether this would help or whether we could  
> help
> out in any other way. You can contact me 24x7 via my mobile
> (+94772928456).
>
> Best Regards
>
> Pradeeper
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