Hey, i am so excited to be on this platform. My name in Levie Nkhoma from the warm heart of Africa, Malawi. I am based in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital city. I was introduced to ODK not so long ago this year 2017 by a person i now call a friend. The first day we met, we talked about a lot of thing including her introducing ODK to me. I have so far created data collection platforms for my church and i am looking forward to using it more in my future projects. Besides data collection, i am a fun of screen printing and branding.
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Hi,
I am Waqar Ahmad, Working in UN World Health Organization Pakistan. Earlier i was working with International Rescue Community and we were using ODK for IDPs camp profiling. In WHO working on Polio Program and dealing with ODK forms and data.
I have learnt many things from blog and discussion of people. Yaw we (Ashley and me) had a skype meeting and discussion on that auto delete issue (https://github.com/opendatakit/xforms-spec/issues/100). Now Doc Ashraf is dealing our Unit while Ashley has other assignments in Jordan.
A special thanks to Yaw for supporting all the time.
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Hi. I am a researcher from India. I stumbled upon FOSS while I was looking for data to prove the concept that I proposed in my Ph.D. proposal. Since then I am exploring the FOSS paradigm to understand the development processes it follows. I published some research work in this domain in IET Software, International Journal of Open Source Software Processes, Frontiers of Computer Science.
I got an opportunity to attend Professors Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) in July 2016. In this course we were trained to educate students to contribute to Humanitarian FOSS projects.
Now I got interested in contributing to the FOSS. I find the ODK project very interesting as this technology has a lot of social impact, and it has humanitarian value. Just exploring the project to find out where I can fit in as a contributor.
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I've been developing websites for about 10 years. Now am looking to add data collection app to my most active website. I've chosen the ODK family of tools and am just getting started.
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Hi Everyone,
I am Barnabas, an entrepreneur from Ghana. Have been involved in field data collection using manual paper and pencil for many years until i came into contact with data collection tools like ODK. I am therefore looking to learn and apply it in field data collection. Still new and need help. Thanks
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Hi everyone!
I'm Vlada, originally I'm from Russia but currently, I'm a Master student in IE University in Business Analytics and Big Data track in Madrid in Spain.
I’m data science enthusiast and want to be an analytics professional. Passionate about machine learning and digital business transformation.
Also, I'm former Google Business Intern and EMC Intern and have some case championships and consulting experience. Have expertise in product management, software market research, and strategy.
Would happy to contribute to the community as an intern both in business and technical sides!
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Hello Friends !! I am Gouri from Kolkata (India), working as a programmer in ICMR,NICED. I am very new to ODK system.
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Hello
Am Ayoub
Am Based in Uganda and in HIV Research, I got involved in the ODk community when i started working for different projects, am currently using it for 5 different projects each on it's own local server. ODK is one tool i have really enjoyed working with though its lower side is i can only use it for cross sectional studies.
In my spare time I watch movies, and watch movies and watch movies
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Hi!
My name is Odilon i am from Benin republic a french speaking country from west Africa. I am an agronomist. I discovered ODK collect few days ago. It is a very useful tools that can helps a lot in data collection. So i want to learn more about it.
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Hello the the ODK family!
I am Justina Oluyemisi Lawal, Ph.D
Based in Nigeria. I work in a research scientist - agricultural socio-
economist.
I got to this forum through curiosity
Though I was introduced to Odk less than a month ago because of an upcoming project I will be involved in. It is entirely new to me!
But I have been trying my hands on it.
I was able to complete an already built in form and send to a server that had been created. But then I wanted to check on the server, what I had set in. How do I check this ànd access the data I had sent to server for analysis????c
Need your help to grow on the use of Odk!
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I work in a research institute!
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Welcome in the forum @Yemisi24,
This part of the forum is just for new members to introduce themselves. For support, you should put your questions in the Support category of the forum.
I advise you to visit http://docs.opendatakit.org/ to get more information on how to use ODK before even posting a question.
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Salut, je suis ANGE ELVIS ABA (Côte d'ivoire).
J'utilise ODK depuis 2015 et cet outil m'a été présenté par Tropical Data.
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Hey there
Im from Georgia, i use ODK for commercial project, we are researching markets (Prices, product distribution, appearnce etc)
Software is good one, we use google sheets to collect all the date and then transform it to the reports we need, in the near future i plan to use wordpress as odk data, scenario is like this, im sending all the data in the google sheets and then connecting these datas with wordpress, so far im testing one plugin but looking for writing something custom 
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Hi.
I am Anibal Vivaceta de la Fuente, from Valparaíso, Chile. Currently teaching Public Health at Universidad de Valparaíso
Regards
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Hi Everyone!
My name is Fran and I am based on the south coast of the UK in Lymington. I am a fisheries consultant and work all over the world, specialising in the management and monitoring of small scale fishing communities. My company is MacAlister Elliott and Partners: http://www.macalister-elliott.com/
I first got involved with the ODK community when I worked with FAO in Sierra Leone, training fishing community members how to collect data on their fish catches, using forms designed with ODK. I have also just returned from Western Ghana, having trained a group of young enumerators to collect fisheries data using mobile phones.
Outside of work, I spend a lot of time training at CrossFit (a combination of gymnastics, conditioning and weight lifting) and also love hiking in the hills of the UK, camping and surfing along out south coast.
Happy to be part of this community!
Fran
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Heya Amazing People!
I'm Srishti from India and am pursuing my major in communication engineering. I also work as the Student Manager with Internshala (world's largest internship platform) and hence I need to maintain a lot of database and circulate various (XLSForm) forms amongst the students. This is how I started to dive deep into the further usage of these forms and how they can be used with ODK Tools. And finally my curiosity lead me to explore the world of open source and Open Data Kit Community.
So, this was my ODK origin story!
Other things that I am passionately involved in are : community building , brand representation and also i have developed a direct digital synthesiser (DDS) using programmable system of chips (PSoC) to make education more accessible to underpriviledged people at very low costs and using very little power in remote areas.
These are the little ways in ehich I have been contributing to the society and ODK's vision inspires me to connect with it and immensely work on mobile data collection because i love to aggregate collected data, play with it and extract it in directly usable formats ! The reason I chose ODK for Outreachy is the fact that you guys have taken up a simple concept and used out-of-box ideas to expand and help in each and every field there is ! This means that I'll get an opportunity to explore, learn and impact extensively (gives me an adrenaline rush)
Hope to work with you and learn numerous exciting things!
Looking forward to connect with you all on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/srishti-gupta-227472118
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Hi,
My name is Sidhra Ahmed. I am from Canada.I have graduated with a bachelors in Stats. Along the way I have picked up coding in R and C++. Have self-taught MySQL on my spare time. I am new to FOSS-I am eager to use my skills, further develop them, and make contributions to ODK.
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My name is Busola. I am based in Nigeria. I got to know about the ODK in 2015, while I was doing my masters in Epidemiology. I used it to collect data. Currently, I am serving with an organisation where we need to collect data and I would be very pleased if I can set this up for my organisation. Outside of data collection, I enjoy reading, listening to music and dancing.
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