Hi, I'm Manisha, a university professor in Canada doing health research. We're conducting a cross-sectional survey with partners in Ethiopia and have used ODK successfully in the past. We've run into some issues in our current round of data collection and I'm hoping to get some advice on troubleshooting.
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Hello everyone,
I am a french Geologist/Geomatician working in research center.
I was looking for a mobile application to collect geological data on the field.
I suscribed to this forum to gather some information on ODK tools (v1). And get some help when I will encounter some issue that I won't be able to solve myself.
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Hello everyone,
I've been using ODK now for a few years on health related research projects at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) with @dr_michaelmarks and @chrissyhroberts. The forum has always been a useful resource and look forward to future developments and sharing my experience.
best,
Sham
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Hello everyone,
Wow, it is great to see such a diverse community here. I am Tara, currently an ecologist with WWF India. We are planning a simultaneous ecological and social survey in the trans Himalayan landscape to understand the nature and extent of human wildlife conflict. This project led me to explore the various ways we could painlessly collect on ground data.
A traditional ecological sign survey would use a handheld GPS unit and a paper datsheet , but we hope to train local people and send them independently on to field. A smartphone is surprisingly, quite common , even in rural areas and is less intimidating than a GPS unit. At first glance, ODK seems to be able to handle the basic info we will be collecting. The only issue is with on ground navigation, We need data collectors to be able to visualise their current position on a custom map (a contour map overlaid with grids which is already developed in QGIS) and be able to view completed tracks. I am unsure of how to implement this functionality or whether it can even be implemented. I'll be hanging around here until I can figure that out. 
Any help, or nudges in the right direction will be highly appreciated.
good to meet you all,
Cheers,
Tara
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Heyo 
I'm Callum Stott. I'm a Software Engineer based in London, UK. I've been working on and off on small contributions for Collect but will soon be focusing more of my time on the product!
I come from a software engineering consultancy background so have worked across many different web and mobile technologies (Ruby, Java and Kotlin based mainly) but I've personally always liked focusing on Android development. I ended up getting involved with Collect through my work on Pivotal Act last year.
My website links to all my important (and not so important) online presences.
Hope to see y'all around!
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Hi! Apologies for not introducing myself in the first message. I'm a medical doctor, PhD student, working in a public health project in Papua New Guinea. We are now doing a population census in our area and we are using ODK for the survey.
Thank you @danbjoseph for the solution proposed. We will try to do this and see if it works.
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Salut,
Je suis Gaétan et je suis basé à Cotonou au Bénin en Afrique de l'Ouest. Je serai ravi de travailler avec vous.
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Hi, everyone, I am happy to join a new world, never too big, never too small. I am now in Hamburg, Germany, but I am originally from Brazil.
I am a soil digger, an agronomist and environmentalist, a nature lover that found it's way to digging more languages and surfaces than outdoors because of wanting to bring technology into the hands of normal users, to make their life easier and faster work.
I worked with data management in corporate world until I gave up all to work for farmers and for nature. Now I am part of a team that developed and application for farmers to collect their practices and assess their impact on environment.
I am new to the world of API's, publishing, html, UX, etc... so before you can follow me, let me find myself within this wonderworld.(not under, but WONDER, from wonderful).
I used to be all about socializing through food and drinks and connect with nature through travels. I loved to please people with hosting big cookouts, I love to ponder on the wonders of the world and the magnitude of our existence by traveling.
Today, I am socializing with different web languages through the world, traveling through work and spreading the word of nature through networking. In the end, it is all about learning. I am learning to live and be a better person daily. Although everyone has their own code, I hope we can keep being updated with new features and release ourselves into better versions.
I appreciate any help as I am walking though baby-steps and have little time for reading and digging as much as I dig soil 
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Hi everyone,
I'm based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine working in public health research in mainly LMICs, and have started using ODK for data collection. On these projects, I often work with collaborators to build capacity in all aspects of research, and using the ODK platform is an area in which many of them have expressed great interest.
Regards,
Ben Palafox
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Hello friends! I am Debjit Biswas! I am from India and work for the Market Research Industry. Obviously, ODK projects are of great interest to me, and I follow them for many years now. I am good with form building and have been using ODK Collect for a long time now. Thank you everyone for creating a wonderful package like this.
Best wishes
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Hello everyone,
I'm from Benin and have just finished my bachelor degree in statistics.
I started contributing to ODK Collect's source code some years ago.
I use it to collect data during survey with my friends.
But I'm now because I'm facing some difficulties.
in fact, we are going to collect data but we're far from each other. and then, to get all the forms early I'd like to set up an ODK server; the most simple as possible.
I decided to have VIRTUALBOX's one which need ODK Aggregate VM. but when I downloaded it, it's just a text file I get.
So to be helped and to give help as possible, I join this best Community.
Thank you all
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Hello everyone,
I am Salu Singh from Nepal. I have been working as a development practitioner since 2017 after my graduation. I worked in a research institute that used to conduct monitoring, evaluation and learning activities for different NGOs, INGOs and government offices in the country. During my tenure as a research associate, I came across the use of ODK, digital data collection. My interest in ODK is only growing more with my involvement in different projects, their evaluations and other studies.
I am hoping to learn more ideas in using ODK more effectively and efficiently.
You can find me on linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/salu-singh-37800aa3/
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Hi All,
I am Kaustubh from India. I work in an NGO as M&E specialist.
I keep collecting data related to trainings imparted to farmers.
I came across ODK during my search for open platforms where I can build android app for small small automations in data collection. I am hoping to learn more features of ODK and effectively use them in my M&E role.
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Hi,
I am Shubham From India. I am currently a second year Bachelors Student . I am too much Curious to learn a lot from You People.
Thanking You !!
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You are very most welcome
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Hi everyone,
My Name is rhoda. I work with a public health organisation
I live in Nigeria.
Am relatively new to ODK and want to develop my skills.
Am glad to be part of ths forum
Cheers
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Hello, I am Truphena Murunga, an Msc. Student at AIMS Cameroon. I am passionate about research, surveys and data analysis and I just love ODK. I am still a beginner in using ODK and I just love its features and what it does.
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Hi ODK friends and collegues!
My name is Abed and I am a graduate student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. I decided to start my ODK journey as I will be going this summer to Tanzania in order to collect data as a part of my thesis. I am very excited but as I am new to this experience and do not have a computer science background, it is taking me some time to understand how things work. I am discovering things on my own (as any independent research should) and I am making progress but any tips are welcome!
My twitter handle is @AbdRTamim; I tweet about economics, grad school, motivation, and personal/experiential stuff!
Some things I do other than the university-related tasks include reading novels, watching tennis (Rafa Nadal is my favorite player) and soccer (a Barcelona fan here), working out at the gym, and trying new things!
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Great to be introduced Seth. I am also from Trinidad, currently reside in North Carolina in the US and my fieldwork is in Ecuador. I'm curious about your aversion to "Caribbean". We use Caribbean and West Indies interchangeably and have for a while. If anything "West Indies" is colonial in etymology while "Caribbean" stems from an Arawak word.
In any case, great to meet another Trini ODK user. Cheers!
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Hi nice to meet you.