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Hello & greetings, I'm Nara from Indonesia. Just started using ODK this week, so I'm looking for many lessons and insights from this Forum :slight_smile:

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Hello! I am Arnesh Agrawal, a Freshman studying Computer Science and Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. I am highly interested in Android Development since Day-1 of joining my college and learned the basics of it since then. I participated in the Winter Of Code'18 (A similar version to Gsoc held in my college) and I am a member of the Mobile Development Group of my college. My Github account link is https://github.com/Arnesh07. I have also developed a basic SOS application called 'Help' and its code can be found in my Github repository.
I have gone through the basic idea of ODK tools and I am really interested in contributing to ODK collect.
I am interested in working with ODK for Gsoc'19.
Apart from the technical stuff, I am interested in reading books and playing badminton! :slight_smile:
Please get me started through the contribution so that we can rock and roll! :smiley:

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Hello Everyone. I am Prarabdh Garg from India. I am currently in the first year of my graduation from Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani . My interest in android Application Development started when I was in 12th, and was learning java. I wanted to convert basic text-only programs to something more attractive. On research I fount that Android development also uses Java, and so I started learning it.

Now, after having learnt Android Mobile Development for around a year, I have started to get the hang of it. I am a part of the collage team that develops mobile apps for the fests held in our collage. I am currently working on making a quiz app along with the other members of my team. Other projects made by me could be found on my Github profile.

I am here as I senior of mine suggested it to be a good organization to work with for the upcoming GSoC. Apart from GSoC, I also wanted to gain some experience about how to write code collectively.

Apart from app development, my other interests include playing FPS video games, reading and playing cricket.

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Hi everyone, I joined the ODK Forum to help out a friend who is having a hard time getting the technical side of things humming for a health surveillance study. I have a background that vaguely touches on the general domain of survey work and analytics (e.g., own a company that provides location and related analytics for mobile phone users in large buildings such as mall, casinos etc; have had a couple of stints working in rural Africa; co-founded the iConsumer initiative at McKinsey surveying consumer digital behaviors globally). But, haven't had a chance to use ODK and thought leaning in would be a great way to help out a friend and maybe learn something in the process.

If you have suggestions on experienced ODK developers, would appreciate any leads.

I posted some background on the research project on the Marketplace board here.

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Hi everyone, I am Aliyu Adamu Tsafe, a citizen of Nigeria. A highly accomplished monitoring and evaluation specialist with more than 17 years of demonstrated expertise in public health, data collection, analysis, value addition, leadership development, executive coaching, and as an adjunct health management expert. He has garnered rich experience with leading conglomerates and non-governmental organizations in Nigeria and Africa, as well as strong cross-cultural experiences having worked on several projects in almost 6 states in Nigeria, Khartoum in Sudan Sudan and Nairobi Kenya. Technically engaged in the application and use of ODK to collect Immunization Plus Days (IPDs) days data and assessment of Data Quality in the endemic northern states of Nigeria. Also, I participated in the use of ODK for supervision of data collection on Auto-Visual AFP Detection and Reporting (AVADAR), Health Facility Immunization Session Reporting and Management Support Team (MST) for IPDs. My facebook account is aliyuadamu, while my WhatsApp number is +234 803 657 4469 and Skype ID: AliyuAdamu. Outside technical stuff, I love cruising, visiting new places and meeting new friends.
Would like to be engage in application of ODK to assess validity and integrity of service delivery data using Nigeria National Health Information System (NHMIS) as captured and reported on the District Health Information System Phase II (DHIS II). Kindly advice accordingly

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Hello Guys!
I am new to ODK and I want to use it yo collect data. I am A Digital Marketer and a Data Associate I try to help friends get their feet wet in the world of data and I study more and more every day.
I am from Haiti and I start learning to program in Python and Kotlin.

Thank already for all your help guys!

Cheers!

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Hello World,
I am Saleh.
A civil engineer with GIS skills.

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Hey everyone. I am glad to be here. I'm Shaykins from Kampala. I have greatly benefited from this community. The knowledge shared here has been very helpful whenever I'm called upon to help with xls forms and deployment for different groups I've worked with. I look forward to interacting with this community as I continue to learn more about odk. Keep up the great work guys.
Cheers!

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Hello community,

I'm Effy from Switzerland - living in Comoros.

Have been using ODK to monitor small-scale fisheries catches, and other interesting projects, and I must say this is a great tool! Very user-friendly as well as you can use Excel to build the forms. The ODK support community has always been helpful in answering my questions/issues... So here I am to participate and interact more with fellow ODK users!

Best

Effy

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Hello, my name is Eraldo, I'm a undergraduate student in Statistics, I live in Brazil, I have a GitHub DosAnjosFilho and I'm starting a new job and they asked me to learn how to use ODK.

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Hello,
My name is Nathalie. I'm working at the Conservatoire d'espaces naturels in Montpellier (France) with Mathieu who is a regular contributor to this forum.
I'm working with him to increase ODK use... so build surveys adapted to collegues'uses.
I'm rather a beginner, but quite enthousiastic

Nathalie

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Al fin alguien de Guatemala :sweat_smile::guatemala:

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@tjaramillo bienvenida, estamos en la misma zona centroamericana, cualquier apoyo con gusto
Saludos desde Nicaragua

Carlos R.

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Hello Everyone, my name is Stephen from Vancouver Canada. I am the cto at an apparel brand called "tentree" (we plant 10 trees for every item purchased). I am working on implementing ODK through the NGO's we work with to track planting activity, protection, tree survivability, quality of life, etc. in remote areas of Madagascar, Indonesia, Nepal, Haiti, and Senegal. We are currently working to integrate on-ground form signing through a public blockchain ledger to provide transparency and prevent "double spending/allocation" of the tree planting benefits.

Very happy to have stumbled on this amazing community and look forward to collaborating with you all!

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Hello everyone,

My name is Mark Herringer. I'm a South African living in the Amsterdam. I run an open data project publishing open health facility data. Healthsites is building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap. We are in the process of adding an ODK data collection form that will publish to OpenStreetMap. I tweet here.

Favourite things include cycling around the canals, indoor climbing, yoga and discovering quirky cafes.

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Hello everyone! My name is Joy Song, based in Shanghai. I am a career coach working for my own company, to provide career services for Chinese international students.

My work with computing science students specifically has exposed me to GSoC projects and thus allowed me to develop an interest in such projects. As a result of this, I have been doing some research on open source organizations. My interests continues to grow as I learn more about the organizations. I have now come to the realization that in order to get involved I need to learn programming language.

My software engineer friend suggested that I should start to contribute to a specific open source project I am most interested in, in order to figure out the steps required and how open source organizations work. With this in mind I looked through all the organizations listed in GSoC for the past month and discovered ODK.

ODK is my ideal organization because of the respect I have on the focus put on using data to help improve our world; especially for low-income countries who rely on it and its works in challenging environments. Additionally, I think it is amazing that ODK can collect data remotely without internet connection or cell carrier access.

I would therefore value joining the community and contributing to these values!

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welcome @Mark_Herringer

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Hi Everyone!
My name is Baboucarr Ceesay (You can call me Babu). I am currently based in The Gambia, West Africa. I work as an IT Specialist for the Ministry of Health (National Malaria Control Program) in the Gambia:gambia:, and have been following ODK since 2017. I was really impressed with its capabilities and knowing that it is the right solution for low resource Countries like the Gambia.

However, I'm actually working on a project that will leverage ODK as the right Data Collection and Management Solution for a more effective Mass Net Distribution (LLIN) and Seasonal Malaria Chemo-prevention Campaigns in the Gambia. That said, I have finally decided, and very excited to join the Community in order to share knowledge and learn more about the Software.

Github: https://github.com/BabuSesay
Twitter: @thisisbabou

Bravo to the ODK Team for this great job!

Best Regards,
Babu

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