Sahana 0.6.1 Beta2  was released yesterday (Nov 28, 2007), and i believe we are well on our way to 0.6 stable release.
This will be a stable release the community has been waiting for a long time.
download it from http://download.sahana.lk
play with it and most importantly report the bugs at the bug tracker in sourceforge.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=127855&atid=709778

and lets work hard to deliver 0.6 stable before Christ

hmm... at last i found some time to blog some thing i should have done 3 months back. I was a facilitator at Asia Source 11 camp in Indonesia, which was held from January 22-30 2007.

It was one of the best events i ever participated.
For 8 days we learned/taught various FOSS applications.

Main take back home for me was the opportunity to understand different cultures and create connections with various people. with 120 odd participants there was representation from all parts of the world. every morning we had morning presentations from each track (participants were divided among 4 tracks), and I was in Track 4 with my SAHANA colleague Mifan Careem(http://techmania.wordpress.com). Of course we presented SAHANA and as a result we have various interested groups that initiated important work in Disaster Management. These morning presentations were very creative and displayed the artistic side of these techie geeks. you can see one of those uploaded clips at our friendly FOSS doctors blog (http://fossyfrancis.multiply.com/)

Any software has bugs , if not its not software :)

we have been fighting these nasty bugs for the past two years and with Fran Boon's , excellent detective work we discovered more bugs in the last few weeks.

well, whats better than to kill these bugs with fun!

so guys and gals, please line up on 7th May 2007 to kill SAHANA bugs.

where: meet on IRC (#sahana on Free Node)

When : 04.00 GMT till as long as you can do it !