Hello, I am a software engineer based in Berlin, Germany, working mostly with Java and Linux. Back in 2013 we had put in place a data collection solution based on ODK Collect in RDC, and now it has been one year that we are using it again for a project across French-speaking West Africa. I have developed a lightweight implementation of the Open Rosa protocol, so that ODK Collect can "talk" directly to our system.
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Hi all,
I am Rahaf, currently based in London, UK. I have started using ODK two years ago after the pandemic started. I am currently working on COIVD-19 related mortality estimation. ODK made my work easier and I appreciate the support the ODK community provides. Thanks.
Best,
Rahaf 
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Hi, I'm Rodrique, from Cameroon, living in Cameroon 
Senior Full-Stack Software developper and Humanitarian 
I get into ODK in 2015, when trying to find out an open source software that I can easily use to collect data on animals drugs which are sold into a region of my country. From this date, it is the only tool I use to recommend and support for all organization who have data collection activities.
I widely use Kobo during my humanitarian activities. But ODK its the default deployed server when an internal one is needed.
I love social activities, I like discovering new places in my country or in the world (virtual/real visit : all matters) ; I practive a little bit Piano, and I'm intermediate in Taekwondo :-p
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Hello people of ODK!
My name is Lucas Silbernagel and I'm usually based in Berlin, 
where I'm pursuing a M.Sc. in Business Intelligence. At the moment, however, I'm doing a Data Science internship at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute which is why I'm working and living in Basel, 
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During the internship I got in touch with ODK for the first time as it is the data collection tool of choice in the research project that me, @Thalie and many others are working on. The project is called "Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness" and we are collecting health data in Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, and India. You can find more info here.
I'm joining the forum because I'm currently developing a generic R package for the Swiss TPH which aims to facilitate the the generation of reports with ODK data.
It is still at an early stage of development but feel free to check it out on my GitHub.
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Hello everyone. I am Sudhir Gupta based in India. We have used ODK with GAE in the past on several projects. It was really easy. Recently we started exploring ODK for another project and found that support for GAE has been discontinued. So we are struggling to build on AWS and facing problems. Reaching out to the community for support. This is my Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhir2016/
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Hi All
I am Praveen Shrivastava from Lucknow, India.
I started using ODK 2 years back because it was open source and easy to use. I develop forms on my own and also setup the google app-engine/vm-instance for the clients.
I am working with private sector, I also Visualize and create dashboards for reports for the clients.
Now I am using ODK-Central. I am here for a query which is related with table format.
Before when i was using SurveyCTO there i have option to export the data in wide format. But in Central is this facility available?
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Hi All,
I am based in Monrovia, Liberia now supporting my organization with impact evaluation. I learnt about this platform from xlsform.org. I want to build my ODK skill to expert level both for personal and professional development. I would appreciate an ODK coach to guide and challenge me so send me a message if that person is you.
Fun things i do outside work is sing and experience new environments. Happy to be here!
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Hello everyone!
My name is Szymon I'm 27 years old and currently I live in Gdynia, Poland. I'm a QA Tester with over 3 years of experience. I started working on ODK Collect last week.
I'm a huge fan of football and board games, also I like to read criminal novels.
I'm happy I can work on ODK with you!
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Hi all, I am Mark Schreiner, and I run Scorocs, LLC, a company that makes the Simple Poverty Scorecard(R) poverty-assessment for 70 countries. See SimplePovertyScorecard.com
I have been using ODK to build data-collection tools in support of the scorecard questionnaires.
I am a US citizen living in the US, fluent in Spanish and with decent ability in French.
I have a done a couple of ODK projects for non-scorecard clients, and am available for consulting work.
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Hello Everybody!
My name is Robson Vieira and I'm running my own IT consulting company here in Brazil.
I've got to know ODK Collect and ODK Aggregate a while ago in the days of Professor Gaetano and love it since then.
As I started using ODK again in a digitalization project at the Amazonia (community-based açaí producers in State of Amapá / Brazil) I got to know ODK Central and it was a great and exciting surprise to see how much the Project has evolved throught the years.
As I noticed that there wasn't a portuguese translation of Central I jump in to the translation effort and just finished what I call it's draft version.
Anyone who speaks portuguese is most welcome to join the team and give a hand to create a final and accurate portuguese interface for Central :))
I also spend some of my non-office hours playing guitar and singing in a rock band
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Hi everyone!
My name is Laure, I'm a Research Fellow based in the greater Seattle area, but doing field work in The Gambia and the US.
I've been using ODK for about a year, we are building a series of questionnaires for a social science research project across 5 countries and something like 35 interviewers. We collaborated with someone to develop the first version and now we are implementing and tweaking on our own. The forum has been super helpful to learn about ODK and its capabilities (which never cease to surprise me in terms of their flexibility!). I love that it integrates well with R and that I can build data pulls directly into my analysis workflow.
I can be found @LSpake_Anthro on Twitter and @lolosp on GitHub
I spend my spare time outdoors, and preferably in the mountains!
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Hello everyone, I am new to this forum, my name is Kenny Swanson. I'm from Sweden and I run a small community, I'm still new to handling ODK,
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Hi everyone. My name is Tosin Williams and I am based in Nigeria. I am a GIS Data Analyst. I got involved with ODK in the year 2015 when I and my mentor (Temitope Adeyoju) were working together on some projects. I built my first XLS form the same year.
I have not registered to join the community but I have always come to the platform as my source of truth when I am faced with a challenge. I have been involved in projects that span Nutrition, Engineering, Health care management, as well as Policy management.
I love swimming, I love games (video and mobile) and I also love chess.
I can be found on Twitter @tosyn_williams
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Hello. I'm a training consultant from Kenya. I work for Uphilos Consultancy and we are ODK trainers. My best short course is ODK for monitoring and evaluation.
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My name Kenneth onyango from turkana kenya . I am requesting to join ODK job and ready to work with guys. I was involved with ODK when I started doing some consulting work for a company here in kenya last year.
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Hi all.
I am a Senior Lecturer are the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. My students, collaborators and I study snake ecology, evolution and conservation (check out maritzlab.com to see the kind of work we do). Unfortunately I have very little coding experience, so I have mostly been reading this forum to try and troubleshoot (somewhat unsuccessfully) the basic development of a tool in ODK to quantify patterns of snake activity. Currently, ODK seems promising, but some of the tools I need seem to be somewhat inaccessible to us coding-challenged folks.
Bryan
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Hello everyone,
I am Hilary Egesa and I am based in Nairobi. I am working mainly as an Android Engineer in Ona Kenya where we strive to use data to save lives. ODK has been a core part of this mission here over the years.
I am fairly new to to ODK on a personal level but from what I have witnessed and read I am really excited to be part of this open source community.
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