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[Tim McNamara <mcnamara.tim@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Steve Davis <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> 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???
>
>
Yes, JSSB would be the best person of all to get on our side. I've contacted
Duncan Henry and Simon Quirke from NZFS. There's a greater likelihood of
traction from inside rather than from me.

Remember - I was the coordinator of a programme that he tried have stopped.
I don't know what I could say to him.

Possibly Des Bull / Dave B could have a word ... but I would prefer for
those conversations to happen when we wont be seen as a distraction. There's
a lot of reputation to lose if we say we can offer the world and a new
application (Sahana) ends up being a hinderance.

Tim McNamara
 http://www.timmcnamara.co.nz
 http://twitter.com/timClicks





> 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"
>>> TalkSahana | http://talksahana.com/ | The Unofficial Official Sahana
>>> Blog!
>>>
>>>
>>
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