About Us

Janastu has been providing free and open source (FOSS) solutions and support to small not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations (NPOs/NGOs) since 2002. This includes one-on-one consulting regarding the information management needs of the NPOs/NGOs, building their online and offline knowledge bases, providing support to their projects: designing web-sites, configuring news-filters, helping them migrate to open source solutions, localization and Indian language issues support, geographic information collection, and comprehensive or modular open source software development.

Janastu is active with these initiatives: (Note: these links open a wiki page in a new window)

Clients

Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection in India (SAATHII), Chennai

SAATHII strengthens and expands HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services throughout India. Janastu built an Online Resource Center (ORC) for SAATHII, which aims to serve as a clearing house of information relating to HIV/AIDS in India. The ORC consists of an E-Library, E-Forum, E-Training and E-Support.

Charter of Human Responsibilities, Bangalore

Pantoto was used to create a charter for human responsibilities to promote and deepen the vision and practices of Human Responsibilities in India and South Asia through an interactive website for Human responsibilities.

Dharani Trust, Bangalore

Created an online community for Documentation and Dissemination phase of the 2nd International Conference on Sexualities, Masculinities, and Cultures in South Asia (2004) conducted by The Dharani Trust in June 2004 in Bangalore.

Tsunami Knowledge Centre, Bangalore

Janastu worked on creating a Tsunami Information center. The Tsunami Rehabilitation Knowledge Center was developed to be the central repository of information for the Regional Resource Centers, and for all NGOs who are participating in tsunami reconstruction and development.

More Pantoto communities and projects can be found here.

Opportunities

We are always looking for Community Builders, Software developers and Adventurous minds

Community Builder:
A team player willing to multi-task and work in a small closely knit team in testing a community oriented product. Also responsible for writing test scripts, building and testing the initial communities based on the project requirements.

Desired Qualifications
1) Comfortable with Internet
2) Familiarity with Web-applications
3) Good verbal and written communication skills
4) Self-motivated and independent

Software Developer:
There is always a need for Web-designers, pythonistas, html5 divers, javascripters, server admin experts and computer science researchers interested in social semantics, knowledge mining and organisation to state a few. Indicate your interest by writing to work at janastu dot org with a clear subject and interest indications.

Adventurous minds:
Experiences from various domains: photography, film-making, writing, artists, heritage and social scientists, accountants, mapping enthusiasts and adventure trekking teams to walk with shepherds and camel herders, ... for part time and sporadic but committed engagements.

Volunteer

Information Technology (IT) has demonstrated ways to gather and disseminate information. It has, however, remained closed for NGOs and community needs in general for lack of IT resource persons in their groups. Janastu intends to take a responsible position as an organization to offer support for these groups. .

Who can help manage information needs of a group of people who are not computer savvy? How can we provide solutions for people and organizations that do not have resources to develop custom solutions?

If you are a person who can pro-actively work with a group and can help us in bridging our resources towards this, please get in touch with us by sending a mail with a clear subject and specific interests and skill indicators to janastu at servelots.com. We can always use people with Computer Science skills, Internet skills, programming skills, user interface and usability experts, and ofcourse various other domain expertise.

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