[sahana-discuss] Sahana Software Foundation Leadership Change

[Michael H. <mi...@sa...>]

Hello All,

After much consideration I have decided not to extend my term as President
and CEO of the Sahana Software Foundation. A year ago I stepped into this
role to help identify a plan forward for the Sahana community and to find
the resources to help us get there. Although we did a great job developing
our Strategic Plan together, finding funding to support it has been less
successful.

The donors and other disaster management actors I have spoken to see value
in Sahana, but they want to direct funding through partners on the ground,
rather to the Sahana Software Foundation. We have seen this over the past
year with the CAP-on-a-Map project, SahanaCamp Turkey and Los Angeles
Community Resilience Mapping project and the new the new Washington State
Common Operating Picture platform project which we are just starting work
on. Although this provides some funding, this does not currently enable our
strategic goal and changes what is needed from our CEO.

Over my transition I will instead work to create more opportunities for the
community to lead their own initiatives to support Sahana. There are still
a number of housekeeping duties which are crucial to the foundation, such
as accounts and infrastructure, which I am working through with the board.
In this regard Devin Balkind will be stepping in to support our ongoing
projects.
Please feel free to share any input you may have or let us know if you
would like to be actively involved in planning the transition.

We are currently planning our Annual General Meeting for to be held
virtually over the weekend of 19-20 September where we can discuss and
decide on the details of the the transition together. Invitations will
later this week.

It has been a huge privilege to serve as the CEO of the Sahana Software
Foundation and I would like to thank all of you for your support over the
last year.

Regards

Michael Howden
CEO, Sahana Software Foundation
mi...@sa...
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