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I am a Sr. Research Manager with a leading international development organization. I still have not done any projects on ODK but would definitely like to know more including related costs of an ODK in India
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Oh yes, for fun, amongst other things, I play video games. I have just started Player Unknown Battlegrounds. My name there is DilettanteDan and I am rubbish at the moment; so if you see me playing, please don't shoot.
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Welcome, i do have a question if you can please look through my post. Thanks
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I'm Juan Reppucci from Argentina, I´m a wildlife biolgist working on carnivore ecology and conservation. Now I´m working mainly on jaguars in Argentinean Yungas forest and in Andean and Pampas cats in the high Andes. Before that I used to work with Molina's hog nosed skunks for my graduate thesis.
I heard about ODK in a training held by Wildlife Conservation Network a few years ago. Now I´m planning a big scale sampling for jaguar presence and I would like to start using this tool.
In my spare time I like to do photography, mostly wildlife and landscape but I like any kind of photography.
Cheers
Juan
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Hi All. My name is Peter Tower and I live in the foothills of the Himalayas in India with my Indian wife Nalini.
I work for the Nora Solomon Foundation, Baptist Church Trust Association, United Christian Action and I am a Warden for the US Embassy in New Delhi, responsible for Dehradun and Mussourie areas.
Some of my activities involve:
Managing 14 Primary Schools and 2 Upper Primary schools being built right now. These schools are located in very remote regions of the mountains and are difficult to access. Electricity is a hope, not a reality in most of them.
Working with another NGO, Samvedna, by sponsoring educators who work with differently abled people and their families to improve their quality of life.
United Christian Action promotes the small community of Christians who are constantly under pressure due to their religion and tries to help them organize and fight back against active political pressures.
And, as a Warden for the US embassy, trying to get assistance for Americans who may get into trouble while visiting India.
I am Secretary for HIMAID, an organization of volunteer doctors who go into the mountains to treat villagers for free and try to improve their infrastructure and lives.
I stumbled across ODK, but I am not a programmer or coder. I am trying to learn it to do the following:
- Maintain school records for our students, including their photographs.
- Maintain health records for our villagers during treatment by HIMAID.
- Maintain treatment records and Individual Treatment Schedules to track results for Samvedna.
These are all roughly similar but I need help.
For instance, there are different numbers of teachers in the various schools, I don't want someone to have to swipe through 8+ blank teacher records to continue filling in a questionnaire. I want a "Skip" button so they can move on, but I cannot find that anywhere I have looked. (Help?)
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Hi,
I'm Martijn (usually pronounced as Martin). I live in Denver, CO (USA) and I am working on the Enketo open-source project as a developer. In my previous life, I was a water, sanitation and hygiene specialist and worked in humanitarian emergencies around the world.
Enketo is a web-based data collection application that works with most of the tools in the ODK ecosystem. It works offline and in fact that was the central idea that prompted this project (for quick humanitarian aid deployments), though it has grown in many different directions since then. More information can be found here.
I'm also involved in the documentation and discussions around our deeply beloved ODK XForms Specification. I'm thrilled with all the activity around the XForms spec in the last half a year! (a big 
to everybody involved, especially @LN). It points to a robust further development of the ODK ecosystem around XForms, with improved and (better) compatible existing tools and hopefully also new and competing tools!
Outside of data collection, I like to build (physical) things and run. My next fun project is a handpump-powered pressurized water supply system for a glamping ("glamour camping") site in the beautiful mountains of Colorado.
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Hi everyone!
My name is Grzegorz I'm 25 years old and I live in Gdańsk, Poland. I'm an Android developer with over 2 years of expirience. I have worked on ODK Collect for almost eight months (before I was working on TaroWorks which uses odk).
You can find me on GitHub and Facebook.
I'm really glad I can work on ODK with you!
Grzegorz
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Hello,
My name is Daniel Kayiwa, born and working from Uganda, in East Africa.
I work on the OpenMRS project and have always loved the complementary ODK tools that give our project, mobile capabilities.
During those early days, when we worked on the JavaRosa engine that is used by ODK, i never knew that the community would grow this large!
A huge thanks to all who already have, and will always continue to make this happen, as together, we make this a better world for everyone! 
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Hi Everyone,
My name is Punit Soni from India Jaipur Rajasthan.
I am a ODK Programmer and i am working on since last one and a half year, I have used ODK in various projects to collect field data since 2016. I have also helped with the Hindi translation of ODK Collect.
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Hi All,
My name is Marzena Marciniak. I come from Poland. I graduated with a master's degree in computer science. I'm a ISTQB certified Tester. I have about 4 years of experience in manual mobile app testing. I have gained the experience working on the TaroWorks app. Recently, I started working on automated testing with Appium tool.
Regards,
Marzena
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Hi!
I'm Andrew from Stellenbosch, South Africa.
I run a consulting firm (Techairos Consulting) and started using ODK on the Abalobi project helping small-scale fishers log catch-data.
I'm a keen trail-runner, hiker, tandem-cyclist and world-traveller.
Big thumbs up to the ODK team and community for the improvements over past months - looking forward to where things are going!
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Hi, i'm Angelo from Spain! i'm a developer and we use ODK to help people reach their aim in a lot of business and organizations! thank you very much for the ODK stuff... thanks!!!
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Hi Everyone,
I am Anahit Tevosyan from FINCA International.
Couple of years ago FINCA created in house field data management platform ValiData, which uses statistical algorithms to check the quality of the surveys and deploys machine learning to detect anomalous behavior of the surveyors. We use ODK almost every day to collect field data from all over the world—Africa, Eurasia, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East and South Asia.
I can’t state enough the importance of ODK as a free & open source software in the international development environment. I am thrilled by the establishment of the ODK community and more than excited with the growth of the Community!!
I am an Armenian, but living and working in DC. Currently, I am the Associate Director of Research and Client Impact at FINCA.
I don’t have free time since my after-work hours are occupied with my two sweet children, but If I had free time I would definitely spend it with them
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My Name is Michael, i live in Switzerland and work as an engineer for manufacturing processes.
In my Holidays i Support a volunteer-organization (www.salamladc.org) with help and Money. This organization is unprofessional by purpose, to involve all Kind of People to humanitarian help, from Manager to Student.
To provide professional Service to our "customers", syrian refugees in lebanon, i implement ODK for them. Server, Forms, Devices, Maps and all around.
We do Case Management and Assessments with ODK.
So ODK is a Hobby for me 
What i like about the platform is the Integration and ease to use. Linked in the Google world it is incredibly easy to build up a System, aquire the data, store, publish and use it with Fusion tables. I am thrilled when i see the opportunities and the way it can help the People.
So mainly i am just here to ask questions 
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Hi All. I am Shylock Muyengwa, based in Harare Zimbabwe. I am a social researcher and use ODK in most of my baseline studies and evaluations. I focus on applying ODK to different contexts and always looking at how to code surveys in ways that allow enumerators to have a conservation with participants.
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Hi everyone!
I'm Adam Michael Wood. I'm a technical writer and developer.
I was hired about a month ago by Nafundi to manage and write documentation for ODK.
I've been dipping my toe in the water with that project as I've finished up another assignment,
and will be devoting a lot of time to ODK Docs starting in the next week or two.
About me:
- I live in Berkeley CA.
- I write developer and user docs for a living, and I also do some Python coding.
- I have a wife and two kids.
- I live at an Anglican seminary (my wife is a student), and I'm a church musician when I get the chance to be.
About docs:
- I've started a new docs repo on Github.
- It is very bare at the moment, but stuff is coming.
- If you are interested in contributing, please let me know.
- More details to come.
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Hi,
I'm a Ronald Munjoma, based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
I joined the ODK Community in 2013 when I started using ODK as a data collection tool for a Randomized Controlled Trial. Apart from the RCT I have also used ODK in other smaller projects and have given talks about Mobile Data Collection and ODK.
Currently I am not involved with a project that uses ODK but I am still actively involved on the forum, answering questions were I can.
I will be happy if projects that use ODK for data collection could cite it in their publications, may be we could make this possible by asking people to cite ODK and provide some sample wording.
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Hi Folks,
I'm a masters student in agronomy, currently based in Kampala, Uganda, where I'm doing my thesis research on the constraints faced by coffee farmers in the adoption of climate smart agricultural practices. I also work as an independent consultant providing data analysis and research support services. Familiarity with ODK is valuable for both!
I've used ODK collect/aggregate in the field before and am very excited about the added functionality of the 2.0 Suite, despite the learning curve I'm finding somewhat of a struggle to ascend.
- Simon
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