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Benetech, Bookshare and Google Summer of Code

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Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. I’m Thushan Ganegedara, a 3 rd year undergraduate from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. My interests are Mobile Development and Computational Intelligence.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

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It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We've also had major efforts in Burma, Sri Lanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year. We've just launched Miradi. We work with human rights groups all over the world.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

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Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations.

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