Humanitarian User Group (HUG)

A the concept of a Humanitarian User Group or HUG for short was first introduced in the Humanitarian-ICT mailing lists (ref: thread [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/humanitarian-ict/message/2598 #2598] ) as a group similar to a Linux User Group, but with a focus on voluntary and community based education, support and deployment ICT in support of a humanitarian needs in a location and organization. As with LUGs, A HUG (Humanitarian User Group) will often be co-located in a specific location (e.g Philippines HUG) or an organization (e.g. Red Cross HUG) and will mostly consist of members who are part of that nation/locale or organization respectively.

Especially for Free and Open Source Software such as Sahana depends mostly on the community for support, it is essential that such groups are established to bridge the gap between the organizational/national requirements and the available ICT software.

ee also

* Humanitarian-FOSS

External links

* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/humanitarian-ict/ Humanitarian ICT mailing list]
* [http://www.iosn.net/foss/humanitarian Humanitarian FOSS section of UNDP IOSN]
* [http://www.sahana.lk Sahana FOSS disasater management system main website]