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Hello ODK members!
My name is Daria, I am from Russia, Moscow.
I am new to ODK, but it seems interesting project. I want to participate in Outreachy program and improve something in your project.
I studied computer science in Moscow State University and then worked as java software developer in company. The most tasks I did were about UI (Swing, JIDE, JavaFx). I also did something on server side.

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salut, j'habite au Bénin un petit pays de l'Afrique de l'ouest. je suis novice dans la programmation ODK et je suis vraiment apte a apprendre et faire de ODK dans mon pays, un instrument de développement en m

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Hi,
Am called Isaac Mugabo, a senior statistician at one of the consultancy firm.Ihave used odk for about 2years but it has really simplied consulting work.

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Hi everybody,
I am Pawara, from Sri Lanka. Currently, I am a Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am new to ODK. I get involved with the ODK community from GSOC. I like the project ODK technology wise as well as interest about the vision of the project. So, I am willing to contribute to the ODK and to the community. I have followed few technologies including Android and Java as well. You can see my Github and can contact me through pawaragunawardena@gmail.com.

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Hi there,
My name is Nehitha.I am currently pursuing my 2nd year engineering in computer science.
I actually came through Google Summer of Code 2018.
I am actually very much interested in making push notification app for ODK Services.I have already worked with firebase in my previous app.

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Hi all,
I am Chukwuemeka Nwagu, final year student of Electronic Engineering at University of Nigeria, Nsukka. My codes live here.
This is my first in open-source. I consider myself very lucky for two reasons, first to have found out GSoC (which brought me here) and then to have discovered ODK. Why I like ODK is that it is kind of a soft landing for beginners. The community is not intimidating like others which I looked through. I have even tried to close a minor issue in the code base for Collect!
Thanks for this opportunity to collaborate, and of course, I hope to get taken for the summer and to work more here. I am already learning and hope to keep learning from everybody in this forum
-CN
PS: I love Subway Surf. I write fiction in my free time. Open-source is great because it sharpens passion.

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Hello worl,
I am Denis Wane, from Cameroon and am in 4th year Software Engineer
I am a volunteer for more organisation like Mozilla (1year), MTN Cameroon Foundation ( 7 months) and ODK (2 months).
I started contributing to ODK Collect's source code as a Android developper to open source community in February. I will work on improving the UI/UX, backend and others tasks of the app in this summer as a part of GSoC programme.

I am very open and I learn quickly. I like to manipulate data especially for experienced economic intelligence or to set up tools that help in decision making.
With over 3 years of experience in Android Development, I think I can give the best of myself and also help anyone in this forum.
Be free to contact me on the RS:

Twitter: denis_wane
Facebook: denis wane
github: wanedenis
email: wanedenis3@gmail.com

Hoping to discuss all the cool ideas according to Android and many others about software engineering in this forum soon...

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Welcome to ODK. Looking forward to your PRs

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Hi all,
My name is William from Zambia.I work for a public health institute.I started using ODK in 2013 after a colleague introduced me to it.I have since used it to design and collect data on a number of research projects.
In my spare time i love to travel,sports and motorbikes.
Funfact:I enjoy doing what i do but if Motogp was serious in African ,i would have been a rider..lol

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Hi everyone, my name is Nestor i work in Nicaragua for an United Nations agency (World Food Programme) we are working with our counterparts (government) in the deployment of great tools to collect data from different parts of the country. After several investigations (google and friends recommendatios) i found ODK and i start using it as a pilot (like a test enviroment) with google and a local server.

Now we have better understanding of the software (linux and all the packages) and we have deploy a virtual server to collect data in real time from differents parts of the country and we have had good results so far. We are collecting geographic data and info about the beneficiaries of the project.

My twitter and github is dante4U/nestor.lopez

Outside data collecting i am a software developer and database administrator, i love everything about informatics, i spend at least 1 hour of my day reading about news of IT suchs as new virus, new software, updates of microsoft,tips of everything, IoT, etc.

One fun fact could be the newest ODK server, we configure and deploy a server to collecting data and after 35 minutes the server was down, we dont know what was happen, we had 150 people sending their data and our server went down. After a lot of cup of coffee and redbulls we figure it ou that we never changed the 512MB of RAM by default :frowning: so it was a rookie error (my bad) after making the change server went alive again (lucky me) :smiley:

Regards

Nestor

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Hello all,

I am Dedrick Kitamuka, computer scientist based in DR Congo.
My previous job gave me the opportunity of using ODK to collect data about health survey to support the ministry of health. I spent more time in using ODK (Configuring ODK collect, Building forms, managing a little bit ODK aggregate, using ODK briefcase), but I was not registered to the forum.
I am a software developper, so I spend the most part of my day in developping IT solutions and I am involved in many projects but most of them are private at bitbucket, here is my github profil

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Hi Everyone,

I am based in San Francisco, but currently have projects in Liberia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and DR Congo.

I use ODK for face-to-face surveys in the field (in combination with Maps.Me so that I can send enumerators to specific locations using KML files and the GPS on their smartphones). I also use ODK for phone surveys that I conduct for UNHCR and World Bank to monitor the welfare of returned refugees and IDPs in Afghanistan.

At the moment, I am starting a small pay-as-you-go community solar company in Liberia. I plan to build all of the business ops on top of ODK -- everything to manage the sales process, accounting, and customer information. I'm running into a few roadblocks... but I think ODK will give me more control over the data than using a CRM or some other platform.

I started using ODK for a survey in Mogadishu in 2011 while I was finishing my PhD at Stanford. The past few years I've been using ODK through Ona.io, but I am excited to transition back to ODK Aggregate.

You can find me on Twitter: @nlidow

Outside of data collection I enjoy big wave surfing.

Best,
Nicholai

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Hi everyone!

I live in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, and I'm an Android Developer in a software outsourcing company and freelancer.

I was looking for a open source project to contribute with a social reason behind, and I'm glad to find out this one. I'm starting to get involved with collect app.

You can find me at internet as @brunoguic in all most social medias.

When I'm not coding, probably I'm with my friends or with my girlfriend. Lately I'm getting cooking class by internet, and I'm still a disaster. But I can teach you how to do a great Caipirinha!

Bests

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Hi everyone, I am Adebola Adenekan. I am from Nigeria and live in Kaduna. I have heard about ODK from friends but was tasked earlier this week to use it for a waste audit. I have yet to 'take off'as its proving really difficult. I have been trying to create the Excel form but it comes up with ''Error: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly". Its a pity I cannot drop a copy of the excel file so I can get corrections.
Please I need help urgently, otherwise I lose the job!!

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Hello ODK community,

I'm using ODK for the first time and have found the user-guidelines relevant and helpful.

I'll be asking a few questions moving forward.

Thanks for what you do,

John Frias

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Hello there!
Myself Ravi Mittal I'm doing my under graduation in Computer Science contributing and developing open source software is my passion. Recently, through GSOC I have come to know about Open Data Kit and looking forward to further develop and contribute to odk.

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Hello,
My name is Emmnauel Adjei-Addo, a certified PMP and an M&E Consultant based in Ghana. I have interest in statistical data analysis using SPSS, Stata EVIEWS etc., form designs (for ODK platform and other offline data collection platforms. Currently working with the UN WFP as M&E Consultant. Had also worked with AERC in Kenya as a Project Data Analyst. I started using ODK in 2014 whilst working with the AERC as a Data Analyst for data collection. This days, I design, build deploy and support mobile data collection systems using ODK.

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Hi,
I'm Mathew from Cameroon doing MSc Public Health for Eye Care with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where I got to learn about ODK in one of our courses (Skills for Field Projects).
I work with the Magrabi ICO Cameroon Eye Institute, a project of Africa Eye Foundation based in Geneva.
You can get me on Twitter and LinkedIn

Although I'm yet to explore all the other functionalities, I found ODK very interesting during our sessions on building forms for data collection.
I intend to use ODK collect for my summer project on "improving waiting time and patient satisfaction in a hospital setting in Sub Saharan Africa". It's gonna be interesting.
Looking forward to getting the most out of this forum

My career is one really very amazing thing. From BSc in Economics to post graduate diploma in Entrepreneurship and Project management and finally to Eye care.

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Hello, am Rupiny Eric from Uganda. I got to know about ODK around December of 2017 when my brother asked me to learn about it so as to use it design questionnaires for him. Coming from a computing programming background and also having that interest of knowing all tech news and stuff, i wondered what this 'ODK' was!?
Any ways, at first all was a little complex but as they say, "practice makes perfect", i got to know lots of features and understand incredible functions ODK has to offer.
I officially started to use it design questionnaires (to be used for agricultural data analysis) like 5 days ago. Well, i did run into some problems but then i bumped into this forum and it really helped me a lot and all is going smoothly.
I do love humming to my favorite music when not coding or being ODK-nish. My twitter handle is @thenewt49 and github is @coderscoven.

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