Free eBook on Disaster Management with Open Source Software

My colleagues at the Sahana Foundation have released "Sahana Eden: Essential Guide", a  free ebook about how to use the Sahana free open source disaster management software. The software was first developed for the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and subsequently around the world for disaster relief operations. A Resource Mapping System was contributed to Sahana Eden by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and is available for other organizations to use. The book is available as web pages by chapter, one web page, ePub, and PDF (104 pages).

Table of Contents

Introduction

• About this Book
• Why Sahana Eden?
• What Does Sahana Eden Do?
• Who Uses Sahana Eden?
• Technical Overview
• Planning a Deployment

Getting Started

• Installation
• Configuration
• Importing Data
• Localization

Administration

• Maintenance
• Data Export

Extending Sahana Eden

• Installing a Developer Environment
• Customization
• Building a New Module
• Further Reading

Meeting The Sahana Community

• Sahana Software Foundation
• Getting Support
• Getting Involved
• Contributing Code
• Where to Go Next

• Appendices

• Resource Model
• Mapping & GIS
• Scheduler
• Synchronization
• Web Services
• S3XML
• Glossary
• Credits