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[Steve Davis <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is a great offer, but I'm not sure how likely any of the agencies we are
connected to here in NZ are to take us up.

I know that Sahana has been proven in deployments, but to Red Cross, and
possibly others, they may still see it as unproven.

What about through Jim Stuart Black and UNDAC etc???

Steve

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Tim McNamara <mcnamara.tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pradeeper
> This is a wonderful initiative from Respere, thank you for your support.
>
> Steve D - this may be worthwhile spreading to NZ Red Cross in Thorndon. I
> know they'll be swamped, so tread lightly.
>
> I'll contact Robert Patton, who is a fan of the Facebook page, from ADRA
> who may be interested.
>
> I don't have any contacts at Oxfam - does anyone think it would be
> beneficial to send out a cold email/cold call?
>
> Tim McNamara
>  http://www.timmcnamara.co.nz
>  http://twitter.com/timClicks
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Pradeeper <pradeeper@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>> --
>> Respere | http://respere.com/ | "Dum spiro spero"
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>> Blog!
>>
>>
>
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