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Hello, ODK community!

I'm Leonard Mulei, from Nairobi, kenya. I'm a Monitoring and Evaluation expert. I learnt about ODK through my friend. I wish to learn how to use ODK effectively in my research works. Can I get someone to guide me to learn ODK easily over here. I learn easily when I get practicals. Anyone willing to role model me please contact me via my email: Muleileonard@gmail.com

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Hello,
I am Paul Storry, based in Bristol, England but working with the company, Quartex technologies who are based in South Africa. As a company we have been using ODK since 2015 when we stumbled across the platform when asked to assist with some construction audits.

Since then we have run numerous projects including

  • Monitoring the construction of low cost housing
  • Toilet construction audits
  • Social satisfaction surveys
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Environmental audits
  • Asset management
  • Forestry stock reporting

We are ODK enthusiasts. We run our own ODK Aggregate instance with a Postgres database and have implemented our own presentation application for data validation, reporting and dashboards. We have learnt a lot over the past three years and look forward to being of assistance

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There is an alogrithm to learn ODK and which is:

  1. Read about ODK from here or from here

  2. Generate your own form from here

  3. Test that form on here

  4. Repeat Step 1 IF GOAL != ACHIEVED

Regards,
Narendra

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Hi all,
I am ketharan from Srilanka. I am following a Computer Science and Engineering (BSc. Eng) at university of moratuwa. I get to know the ODK community while going through the GSOC 2018 organizations. Now i am willing to work with ODK for GSOC 2018.
I am familiar with some programming languages and technologies. I am interested in data science and analytics.
You can go through my Github and you can contact me via sketharan1996@gmail.com.

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Hi!
I'm Armen from Yerevan, Armenia, completing my 4th year of bachelor's program, studying Informatics and Applied Mathematics.I have 1 and half year experience in Android development.
I have found ODK while exploring GSoC'18 projects, and I found it very interesting project for me. I have already made a few contributions to ODK Collect and will be participating in the GSoC for the first time.

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Hey guys~
My name is Yizheng Huang and I come from China , I'm a student from ShanDong University.
I founded ODK after I viewed all the GSoC projects 2018 and I was deeply attracted by its features,I think ODK can really do something for people and I believe it will become better and better.So I decided to devote all my spare time working on ODK whether I can be recruited by GSoC or not.

The skill set for myself include Android, Python, JavaScript and even Hackintosh.I have addressed one issue related to the JavaScript linked to the WebView interfaces recently and submitted my Pull Request.issue#1855 / PR#2060
And I also do some translations with language-zh (Chinese) in Transifex, which PR had been closed because of the conflicts with Transifex PR2022

If you guys want to know more about me ,you can visit my blog: my bolg
or visit my Github: huangyz0918
I have a puzzle game published in GooglePlay Store which I have done all the work by myself Link

Now I'm a part-time CTO in a social company which aims to improve the quality of charity in China.
And I think ODK Collect Application may be a good choice to collect data related to the living conditions of rural left-behind children in poor villages around the world.This is company website: boxfriends.

Anyway, I think it will be a precious experience to work with ODKers and GSoC 2018
Nice to meet you all !!

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Hello ODK world!!

My name is Ngenge Senior, and I am a Cameroonian and I am also a final year Computer science student at the University of Buea. I am an Android/Python programmer as well. I am really new to ODK but I got to hear about ODK during a presentation by one of my course mates last year during Google I/O Extended organised in Buea,Cameroon. I got interested not just because ODK ran along my lines of development but because it is really a cool solution for remote parts of the world. My greatest wish is contributing in one way or the other to the community. Thanks

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Hello everyone!
I am Aayushi NIgam, a sophomore from India. I am interested in Android App Development and have an intermediate level of experience in creating mobile apps.
I have recently come to know about this community while going through the projects list for Outreachy.
I liked the idea of ODK Collect and wish to work on it as in intern for Outreachy program. Looking forward to getting involved with the community and honig my skills.

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Hi every body, my name is Mohamed Dicko alias Med and from Mali, and for whon forgot Mali, it's the country where we can find Tombouctou and Djenné, old town and sites of University of Muslim studies! So i am using the ODK since 2 years throught my job, am working as Monitoring and Evaluation in various project.

Thanks to all for their contributions and us frenchspeakers, want a forum in french!!!
Thanks ! i am here to learn not to contribute !!!

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Hello. I am Maxwell. I work with an NGO and based in Nigeria. As a program manager for program quality, I have deliverable that require the use of ODK on daily basis. Outside work, I love sports especially football and table tennis.

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Hello ODK members!
My name is Daria, I am from Russia, Moscow.
I am new to ODK, but it seems interesting project. I want to participate in Outreachy program and improve something in your project.
I studied computer science in Moscow State University and then worked as java software developer in company. The most tasks I did were about UI (Swing, JIDE, JavaFx). I also did something on server side.

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salut, j'habite au Bénin un petit pays de l'Afrique de l'ouest. je suis novice dans la programmation ODK et je suis vraiment apte a apprendre et faire de ODK dans mon pays, un instrument de développement en m

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Hi,
Am called Isaac Mugabo, a senior statistician at one of the consultancy firm.Ihave used odk for about 2years but it has really simplied consulting work.

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Hi everybody,
I am Pawara, from Sri Lanka. Currently, I am a Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am new to ODK. I get involved with the ODK community from GSOC. I like the project ODK technology wise as well as interest about the vision of the project. So, I am willing to contribute to the ODK and to the community. I have followed few technologies including Android and Java as well. You can see my Github and can contact me through pawaragunawardena@gmail.com.

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Hi there,
My name is Nehitha.I am currently pursuing my 2nd year engineering in computer science.
I actually came through Google Summer of Code 2018.
I am actually very much interested in making push notification app for ODK Services.I have already worked with firebase in my previous app.

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Hi all,
I am Chukwuemeka Nwagu, final year student of Electronic Engineering at University of Nigeria, Nsukka. My codes live here.
This is my first in open-source. I consider myself very lucky for two reasons, first to have found out GSoC (which brought me here) and then to have discovered ODK. Why I like ODK is that it is kind of a soft landing for beginners. The community is not intimidating like others which I looked through. I have even tried to close a minor issue in the code base for Collect!
Thanks for this opportunity to collaborate, and of course, I hope to get taken for the summer and to work more here. I am already learning and hope to keep learning from everybody in this forum
-CN
PS: I love Subway Surf. I write fiction in my free time. Open-source is great because it sharpens passion.

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Hello worl,
I am Denis Wane, from Cameroon and am in 4th year Software Engineer
I am a volunteer for more organisation like Mozilla (1year), MTN Cameroon Foundation ( 7 months) and ODK (2 months).
I started contributing to ODK Collect's source code as a Android developper to open source community in February. I will work on improving the UI/UX, backend and others tasks of the app in this summer as a part of GSoC programme.

I am very open and I learn quickly. I like to manipulate data especially for experienced economic intelligence or to set up tools that help in decision making.
With over 3 years of experience in Android Development, I think I can give the best of myself and also help anyone in this forum.
Be free to contact me on the RS:

Twitter: denis_wane
Facebook: denis wane
github: wanedenis
email: wanedenis3@gmail.com

Hoping to discuss all the cool ideas according to Android and many others about software engineering in this forum soon...

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Welcome to ODK. Looking forward to your PRs

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Hi all,
My name is William from Zambia.I work for a public health institute.I started using ODK in 2013 after a colleague introduced me to it.I have since used it to design and collect data on a number of research projects.
In my spare time i love to travel,sports and motorbikes.
Funfact:I enjoy doing what i do but if Motogp was serious in African ,i would have been a rider..lol

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