We just wanted to let you know about the beta release of a new service
called formhub that, our lab the Modi Research Group at Columbia
University, has been working on.
Our goal with formhub is to provide a free hosted data backend service for
ODK Collect for those who don't want to setup or manage their own server.
We've incorporated the XLS2XForm library directly into formhub. This
allows you to upload an xls into formhub and then be deployed directly to
your phone. We also provide a nice excel/csv export that provides support
for things like repeats and some very basic mapping visualizations. We are
also working on incorporating the idea of form sharing (via xls files) into
formhub. This is an idea we are really excited about.
formhub is very much a work in progress but we feel the underlying data
handling code is pretty sound having handled over 40,000+ form submissions.
The underlying code is python/django and is available under and opensource
license if you want to deploy an instance yourself.
For more details about the formhub release and our future plans please
checkout:
We hope you find this service helpful and a useful part of the wonderful
ODK ecosystem.
we love all the innovation happening around the platform and anything
that makes data collection easier is a win. can't wait to see what you
guys come up with next.
yaw
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On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 21:47, Matt Berg wrote:
> Dear ODKers,
>
> We just wanted to let you know about the beta release of a new service
> called formhub that, our lab the Modi Research Group at Columbia University,
> has been working on.
>
> http://formhub.org
>
> Our goal with formhub is to provide a free hosted data backend service for
> ODK Collect for those who don't want to setup or manage their own server.
> We've incorporated the XLS2XForm library directly into formhub. This allows
> you to upload an xls into formhub and then be deployed directly to your
> phone. We also provide a nice excel/csv export that provides support for
> things like repeats and some very basic mapping visualizations. We are also
> working on incorporating the idea of form sharing (via xls files) into
> formhub. This is an idea we are really excited about.
>
> formhub is very much a work in progress but we feel the underlying data
> handling code is pretty sound having handled over 40,000+ form submissions.
>
> The underlying code is python/django and is available under and opensource
> license if you want to deploy an instance yourself.
>
> For more details about the formhub release and our future plans please
> checkout:
>
> http://blog.formhub.org/2011/12/05/data-gatherers-of-the-world-unite/
>
> We hope you find this service helpful and a useful part of the wonderful ODK
> ecosystem.
>
> Thank you,
>
> The Modi Research Group
>
> http://modi.mech.columbia.edu
>
>
>
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This looks very cool. Can you say specifically which opensource
license you are using for this project?
Thanks!
-David
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On Dec 7, 10:47 pm, Matt Berg wrote:
> Dear ODKers,
>
> We just wanted to let you know about the beta release of a new service
> called formhub that, our lab the Modi Research Group at Columbia
> University, has been working on.
>
> http://formhub.org
>
> Our goal with formhub is to provide a free hosted data backend service for
> ODK Collect for those who don't want to setup or manage their own server.
> We've incorporated the XLS2XForm library directly into formhub. This
> allows you to upload an xls into formhub and then be deployed directly to
> your phone. We also provide a nice excel/csv export that provides support
> for things like repeats and some very basic mapping visualizations. We are
> also working on incorporating the idea of form sharing (via xls files) into
> formhub. This is an idea we are really excited about.
>
> formhub is very much a work in progress but we feel the underlying data
> handling code is pretty sound having handled over 40,000+ form submissions.
>
> The underlying code is python/django and is available under and opensource
> license if you want to deploy an instance yourself.
>
> For more details about the formhub release and our future plans please
> checkout:
>
> http://blog.formhub.org/2011/12/05/data-gatherers-of-the-world-unite/
>
> We hope you find this service helpful and a useful part of the wonderful
> ODK ecosystem.
>
> Thank you,
>
> The Modi Research Group
>
> http://modi.mech.columbia.edu
Great question. I think we forgot somehow to add the license. About 90%
it's BSD but want to confirm with the team and will get back ASAP. Will
either be BSD or Apache. Will email you David when we confirm.
Thanks,
Matt
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On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, dwhogg wrote:
Matt,
This looks very cool. Can you say specifically which opensource
license you are using for this project?
Thanks!
-David
On Dec 7, 10:47 pm, Matt Berg <mlb...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
Dear ODKers,
We just wanted to let you know about the beta release of a new service
called formhub that, our lab the Modi Research Group at Columbia
University, has been working on.
Our goal with formhub is to provide a free hosted data backend service
for
ODK Collect for those who don't want to setup or manage their own server.
We've incorporated the XLS2XForm library directly into formhub. This
allows you to upload an xls into formhub and then be deployed directly to
your phone. We also provide a nice excel/csv export that provides
support
for things like repeats and some very basic mapping visualizations. We
are
also working on incorporating the idea of form sharing (via xls files)
into
formhub. This is an idea we are really excited about.
formhub is very much a work in progress but we feel the underlying data
handling code is pretty sound having handled over 40,000+ form
submissions.
The underlying code is python/django and is available under and
opensource
license if you want to deploy an instance yourself.
For more details about the formhub release and our future plans please
checkout: