Hi everyone
My name is Muhammad and I am from Kenya.
I am using ODK since 2016. I am using ODK in different projects including soil health monitoring, biodiversity etc.
I am a programmer with interests in mobile data collection and data modeling.
thanks.
Hello everyone,
I am Brad Kelley, I am a consultant that specializes in secure data transmission and delivery as well as data driven
technical infrastructure . I have built large and small scale ODK systems. I am a Redhat certified professional and Senior Linux administrator. I look forward to working with this group. ODK is a great project. I hope to help in any way I can. Please let me know if you have any question on moving data or even storing and crunching that data.
Thanks,
Brad
Hello ODK Community,
I work in GIS and Databases for an environnemental non-profit organization in France, near the city of Lyon.
I discovered ODK few years ago now, as i looked for an open-source solution to answer our mobility needs.
We use this great project to report datas from the field. Mostly in natural areas without networks at all. ODK is great at doing the job.
One of our best interest is in csv data preloading with very big list of datas (around 400000 sometimes) and geographic datas (with geoODK). The Aggregate server was for us the really big reason we choose ODK. We can connect it with our postgres databases, and make it really a part of our information system. It's a great deal.
I work with @mathieubossaert. In this past year we offered two ODK training session to our professionnal network. Around twenty co-workers follow these. Hope they will join this community very soon.
You can find other information about my company on our website : http://www.cen-rhonealpes.fr/ (only in french sorry).
I really like this new forum.
Thanks to all for past, present and futur shares.
Rémi
Hi
I am an ODK user based in Mali West Africa. I have discover ODK since 2008 and design all my survey questionnaire with it. I am very glad to participate to the community forum discussions about ODK issues.
Best
Hi all,
I just dissolved my global health 501c3, 4942j3 NGO after 5 years, so have some free time to devote to a similar project targeting developing worlds. My NGO's mission was to disrupt the current health belief models of Least Developed Countries by providing remote villages with novel access to healthcare. So after perusing the current UW CSE research projects in development, it looks like the openDataKit seems to align perfectly with my interests and skills, so I would love to learn how to get involved!
I live in Seattle, WA USA with my partner and our juvenile red-footed tortoise. A few of my hobbies include Ironman 70.3 triathlons, world marathon majors, classical guitar, gardening, woodworking, steel sculpture, crabbing & skiing!
My data / research background's in pre-clinical neuroscience (Brookhaven Lab & UPenn) and tech diversity (UW). More recently I'm volunteering with DataKind as a Data Ambassador on their domestic philanthropic projects.
My technical background's in computer science & biomedical engineering. I just finished my undergraduate CS degree in March, and I'm starting Georgia Tech's part-time, online Master's in CS next month, and I'm currently a teaching fellow for LaunchCode where I get to implement some of the interesting tech diversity paradigms I researched while at UW. I enjoy building Android apps in my free time in addition to attending local meetups, hackathons and tech conferences.
I joined the Slack group as well.
Cheers,
Jeanna Clark
Hi there, am new to the forum but an old user of ODK. Am based in Kenya and generally involved in Agriculture data collection. You can see our work at www.tegemeo.org
Hi All
My name is Raymond Hodor from Ghana. I just had my Mphil from University of Ghana. I joined a research company not long and I was reading around how best to avoid the stress of inputting data after fieldwork, then I found ODK. Even as an amateur, I find the app very useful although am struggling a bit but I hope to learn more.
Thanks
Hi All:
My name is Nik Holmes, and I work as a freelance developer and consultant, mostly for small-to-medium sized companies around my locality, which is a small market town in the middle of England. I'm 56 years ancient, and I haven't had a proper job since 1986.
I use a custom fork of Collect in a couple of projects, but my customisations are tiny, and I'm really not a developer in the context of ODK - I hate Java, and have no idea how Android works! But I do know XML and HTML, and how to implement RESTful APIs on webservers (mostly PHP/MySQL). So my projects mostly comprise serverside code which builds and prepopulates forms dynamically in response to a Form list request from Collect, which runs on Android devices in the field. The same servers also process forms submitted back to them, storing the Collected data for use in a web sites/services/applications which report and use it in a broader workflow context.
My education was electronics rather than computer science, so my introduction to programming was a microprocessor development system which required me to enter sequences of 8080 machine instructions manually, using banks of 8 switches and a "next" button. And you try and tell the young people of today that!
Although I've been writing code on and off for four decades, I'm more of a hacker or script kiddie than a proper programmer, but I like building complete end-to-end systems from scratch, sometimes including hardware like the Raspberry Pi - and perhaps because I've been developing websites for 20 years, I don't use libraries like JQuery to write my Javascript for me, and I don't use frameworks like Wordpress. So my systems are ugly, but fast - and my motto is "I'll make it work, but don't ask me what colour it should be!"
Nik
Hi everybody,
I am Seid , From Ethiopia , working on different technological platforms to solve problem on the ground , coming to Data collection i was so surprised when i meet ODK years before , it so simple to install , manage and operate , additionally its xml and xls based templates makes ideal to push forms to filed-workers.
I have deployed it for Geo-tag and pests control platform i the agriculture sector and the users like to very much .
BTW , my favorite stuffs is coding with python and PHP , especially nowadays am crazy about the AI and Big data stuffs with python following python joins the enterprise grade language for app development.
Many Thanks for all the team who makes ODK happen and FOSS.
Hi everyone!
I am actually a we--a team of researchers (Nani, Maddy, Lyndsay, Caite, Taylor, Caitlyn, and Caroline) at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Caroline (currently typing and in the picture) is Caroline Krafft, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Political Science. I've been working on survey data in the Middle East and North Africa for a number of years now, supporting publicly available micro data. We switched from paper to tablets for surveys a few years ago, but have had a lot of problems with, first, a custom-written program, and second a commercial program. The programs we used just could not do the kind of complex data linking we need. So we decided to switch to ODK 2.0 tools--and learn to program the questionnaires ourselves. We've recruited an awesome team of researchers who are working away on learning ODK and programming. We are working away on a big planned (~2500 variables in the resulting data) household survey for Egypt as our first project. So we are collectively posting lots of questions about that! We've also been training the Egyptian statistics office on ODK.
You can learn more about me (Caroline) here: https://sites.google.com/site/carolinekrafft/ or follow me on Twitter at @ckrafftc or St. Kate's Economics Department on Twitter @StKateEcon
Thanks!
Hi am Isaac, its almost 2 years since i started working with ODK Collect -- a data collection tool so to speak.
Its been half wonderful and half disheartening -- took me ages to find out about Calculations.
The search function on csv(s) doesnt work so well with multiple choice answers.
I really really hated that google groups - ODK group -- and the lack of wide documentation across the internet.
Maybe this forum will help out.
I think there are so many areas of improvement for this Tool!
Great forum site btw!
Isaac
Hi all!
I'm Jakub from Gdańsk, Poland. I've been working as a developer with Benetech and Fundación Paraguaya on the Poverty Stoplight project for more than half a year, mostly focusing on the ODK 2.0 Tools. Together with my team, we've been able to create a new mobile app based on ODK Survey and ODK Sync which combined the functionality with a completely redesigned UI. We've also made some changes within the ODK Aggregate to suite it for our needs. I would like to focus on the future of the ODK Aggregate as it seems to be the part of the whole ODK Tools Suite that is falling behind the most.
Cheers,
Jakub
I am william working with Metajua uganda limited.
I have working with the previous odk 1.0 for a year now though odk 2.0 is giving me hard to configure a testing environment.
Hi,
I am Nsubuga Hassan and Android Developer from Uganda. I have a startup (Hansu Mobile Innovations) and I have know and used ODK since 2012 as a data collector and from 2014 as developer who does modifications as clients ask (Freelancer).
I have worked with William (at Metajua).
My passion for Android and developer communities has taken me places like United States, Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda.
I enjoy Halal meals.
Let me head straight to Github and continue my exploration with the latest ODK 2.0 developments
Hi,
I am Gunnar Ro. As part of project with WHO in Jordan, Madagsacar and Somalia I am using ODK for data collection for real time public health surveillance. We have create an online portal to display and analyse data collected using ODK Collect and ODK Aggregate. Our project would not have been possible without all the great work from the ODK community. We are hoping to be able to contribute more to the community.
We are currently dealing with and working on many issues regarding using ODK for with a lot of data and for near real time data aggregation and visualisation. The problems we are facing have to do with the number of submissions (getting closer to 250000 submissions) and questions regarding of to handle changes to existing forms with that many submissions. My colleague have also worked on adding additional features we need for the ODK collect app including automatic update of forms, GCM status messages and a few other features.
Almost all of our code is open source and is available at https://github.com/meerkat-code. Please get in touch if there anyone is interested in the same questions or if we can contribute with something.
Gunnar
Hi there, I'm Odil. I'm using ODK for all my projects where we collect data using different Surveys. I'm using ODK more than a year and I like it!
Hi Everyone,
I'm a GIS analyst and Urban planner from the Nigeria, based in Lagos working with geodigital enterprise. I got into ODK completely by chance, looking for tools to improve GIS data collection in the field of assets enumeration. Please i will need your assistance in building assets enumeration application.
Hello everybody!
I indentify myself as a human being (and absolutley not as an Apache helicopter). I'm GIS Specialist (but not so special yet) at Balaton-felvidéki National Park Directorate, Hungary.
We used ArcPad before for collecting biotic data, but now we have only android devices, and can't found the perfect field data collector for Android.
And how I find the ODK...
Simply Google search. "The best free field data collector for android" or "similar as ArcPad for android" and the first resoults page I found the ODK.
I think ODK has big oportunitys in nature protection. Biotical data collecting is just the first step. Our park rangers also need a field app with custom maps, live tracking, etc so we waiting for the future versions of ODK, and I would like to help improve it, if I can.
Hello!
My name is Gaurav Kumar and I am a scientist with the Indian Space Research Organization. I have mainly been involved in GIS projects for most of the past decade, though my range of interest encompasses all of space science and beyond. Over the last few years, one of the most sought-after subject in GIS, especially in India, has been to collect authentic and reliable data that will form the basis of robust WebGIS. The govt. machinery is slowly beginning to trust mobile based data collection and we have made a number of data collection applications.
But with time, the novelty in creating yet another mobile based form has worn off and we have been looking for an elegant solution that can be the mother of all data collection apps and I was very glad to come across ODK (I have been more lured by the GeoODK application due to its mapping capabilities). We have been tweaking the code to make it better suited to our purposes and for the first time, we intend to implement it in a nation-wide census, beginning with a pilot study in 5 randomly chosen districts. The hiccups faced during the process of customizing the code has set me out looking for the developer community and I am really glad to find you!
Unfortunately, most of our work is in a closed network and while I am not able to link to it directly, I and my team would love to be involved in making this community stronger.
Thanks!
Hey Guys!
Nice to be here with you. Looking forward to facing challenging stuff together