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My name is Patrick Masitsa a Kenyan 40 years old. I am an ODK and ONA user.
I am happy to join you guys.
Thanks
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Hi every one!!!....
My name is Saahid, I got interested in ODK when I was Surveillance Data Manager and living in Somalia, we were looking for better ways to collect data more efficiently in low bandwidth environments.
ODK-Collect as our mobile data collection tool which have been using since 2015 and introduced by Dr. Jama from Kenya who piloted mobile data collection using ODK for LQAS in Puntland - Somalia.
I've only recently had the opportunity to contribute translation of Somali language for ODK tool.
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Hi All, I'm Fahmi from Jakarta, Indonesia
Actually, I know ODK years ago, but kinda going to use it for my current project for the first time now.
I might have so many question about it.
So, please bear with me 
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Hello I am Billow Abdi from Nairobi Kenya. I am a researcher and I have been a frequent user of ODK platform for the past three years. I still use it and will continue doing the same. I first came across ODK in January 2015 through a workmate who asked me to help him author a questionnaire by posting questions on the label column and he would do the remaining job. After doing so, he gave me a link to follow for some help and through that I was able to do better than he expected of me. I like using ODK because I am satisfied of its ability to help in making data collection easy and efficient. Besides my daily work duties, I like watching documentaries and playing volleyball. My twitter handle is billowabdi. I am glad to join this community and I promise to respect the codes of conduct of the forum. Thanks all.
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Hello everyone!
My name is Katarzyna and I am a QA from Poland. Actually, I am a biotechnologist but currently I am trying myself in computer science and I’ve just started my adventure with ODK.
Regards,
Katarzyna
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Hi everyone
Im Richie. Im from Cameroon. Im a Network Associate. I heard of ODK from a friend of mine (@icemc). I've used ODK for personal data collection. My first encounter with these tools was awesome.
Regards,
Richie.
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Hi! I'm Noel from Ireland, currently working in Jordan supporting humanitarian work in the Middle East and a few other countries. I am particularly interested the automation and scalability of data flow and hope to be able to make a contribution to the community in this area.
It's an honor to introduce myself to a group of interesting people, helping to build such an important tool. In Medair we have been using ODK based tools as the standard method of data collection and it is invaluable to our projects.
If you would like to know more about Medair's IM work in the Middle East or elsewhere just let me know!
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Hi All,
Happy to be part of ODK,
Myself, Anup Krishna P, am an IT Professional with experience in System Analysis and design, currently working as Specialist in Management Information System for Local Self Government Department, Government of Kerala in India.
We have piloted ODK in Deputy Director of Panchayat Office-Thrissur, Kerala for GPS based mapping of all Local Government Bodies in the district. The pilot was successfully completed in a week's time and we are really amazed by the functionality and adaptability of Open Data Kit. We take this opportunity to thank all persons involved in the development, implementation and maintenance of ODK.
Regards,
Anup Krishna P
anupkp007@gmail.com
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Hello ODK peeps!
I'm Evan, I'm from the beautiful place of Philippines! 
I got involved in the community when I started also working with a project using ODK.
at first I just read and read all the necessary tutorials to know more about ODK. Its quite fun when I used ODK as a tool in a (paper less) surveys.
Thanks for this forum I've met people who uses ODK too. 
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Hello,
I am Nji, from Cameroon. I am a Systems Administrator(Solaris, CentOS, RHEL, Windows). I learnt of ODK from some friends (@icemc and @iceb85) and used it on a little personal project i was trying to carryout. Because the software was cool, i decided to join the community I hope to get help as well as offer help when and where possible.
Thanks.
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Hello All,
I'm Jonathan, a software developer with IMA World Health. We are a US-based NGO that works in the health system strengthening for third world nations. We've been using ODK for the last year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for everything from demographic surveys to expense reports. We find that the combination of timestamps, pictures, and GPS coordinates go a long way towards fraud projection and gives us much more reliable data than any other collection method currently available to us.
I'm @jniles on Github if you want to check out some of our projects.
Thank you all for all your hard work on ODK!
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Hello everybody! My name is Akira, I'm a forensic expert in Brazil. My colleagues and I are currently studying how the ODK platform can be used to improve data collection processes and automate the creation of forensic reports.
I hope I can help with ideas and shared experiences.
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Hello Everyone !
My name Pinan from Cambodia. I'm looking for new knowledge and experience from ODK Forum.
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Hi,
I’m based in Canada. I have completed a Java course and was looking for an opportunity to practise my skills. ODK sounds like a great place to do that and add something positive to the world. This is my first time trying to contribute to an open source project. I’ve started a little portfolio of mine on https://github.com/hc02ca.
I like to hike, perhaps that’s because I live in Canada and there is a lot of parks.
Hsiu-Ling
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Hi everyone,
I'm Chris and I'm a software engineer based with the a UK non-profit called Statistics for Sustainable Development. We work with projects around the world, often in the capacity of Research Methods Support or M&E. We adopted ODK into the core of our ecosystem a number of years back and since then have continued to build and develop our knowledge to share with our partners. Most recently I've been tasked with creating lots of standalone android and web apps that help to integrate the collection of data with methods to feedback information (most often to farmers). I'm keen to see how the recent developments in ODK 2.0 might be of use within our set of tools and support the projects we work with.
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Hi,
I am Raghu Mittal, currently working at Digital Innovation Lab, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM Bangalore). At the lab, we work on building technology for social impact. I am leading the tech team here, and working on some very interesting projects. Recently, I created a proof-of-concept using block-chains and in a current project, I am working on machine learning and data science. In my previous company (Handsrel), we had a data collection platform and we used a modified version of ODK-Collect as our android client.
For some time now (almost 1.5 years), I have not been actively working on ODK, but recently, our funder requested an interesting feature in our data-collection app and I did an implementation for them. That feature is - building an auto-gps feature inside a form, so that the GPS coordinates are collected automatically while the form is being filled.
Having built it on our own fork of ODK Collect, I would like to contribute this feature to the Open source community. In that regard, I will soon be opening a ticket for discussion. Happy to hear from others, their suggestions and comments.
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Hello there. I have been asked to "introduce myself" and I assume this is where I do it. In any case, I'm a new ODK developer trying to get it to work in Cambodia for a monitoring survey that we do out in the provinces where there is no internet connectivity. It seems this technology is a good fit for us. That's it!
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Hello World,
My name is Baha Hellali and I have been working with ODK tools in Afghanistan since 2010. I have used ODKAggregate, ODKCollect, FormHub, KoboToolbox for several humanitarian projects collecting data from remote corners of the country using ODKCollect.
Anyone else in the community working in Afghanistan?
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Greetings from London, where I am currently based. I am a physician and a PhD student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I am interested in global health, infectious diseases, and all things microbial! My current research involves Female Genital Schistosomiasis in Zambia. I am currently developing field work questionnaires using ODK and came across the ODK community.
Outside of research and data collection I love to explore the world on two feet (or a bike). I make time for travel, food, family, and friends.
Looking forward to collaborating!
Amy
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Hi. My name is Russ Klein. I am Director of Innovation and Research at Sensi Tech Hub in Freetown Sierra Leone (www.sensi-sl.org), a non-profit organization serving as the only co-working space and promoter for entrepreneurship in one of the poorest countries on Earth. I have recently "inherited" responsibility for a fork of ODK which has been customized to collect education history data about the youth population in rural parts of this country and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, where there is often no Internet connectivity.
I am a software engineer but I have never before worked with ODK. Some of my data collection workers in the field have reported a few problems with the implementation and I am looking to hire a short-term contractor who can take a look at the configuration and the code and help correct the problems. We are not trying to do anything fancy, just use the basic functionality native to the ODK platform. I will post the TOR separately in the correct section of this forum but welcome any offers from anyone here who has interest and expertise.
Thank you!
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