Mathieu Bossaert - TAB Application - 2020-09-01

Hi @dicksonsamwel,

Thanks for the question. I always encourage people to interact with ODK's community because of its exemplar capacity to imply users and their needs in the definition of the tools.
From my experience, i think that ODK community is particular in the ways that each question you ask or the remark you do is always capitalized and attached to a developpement discussion. How your thoughts are considered in the ODK "core" community (I mean project leaders, developpers and TAB/TSC) !
This is more due to the core team than to each member of the community who ask a question, but as a result it really encourage general community members to participate, and to elaborate the future features of the tool.
Another thing, really appriciate when you arrive into the community is how it welcomes you and helps you from beginers questions to more experts/tricky ones, from all continent, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Even if it is already really great to benefit such a community, I think as it was pointed on different TAB Application (Odil Qurbon - TAB Application - 2020-09-01 and Chrissy h Roberts - TAB Application - 2020-09-01 - #5 by chrissyhroberts), that we could engage two things :

  • translating the documentation (at least some beginers part) would help people who do not read English well, and to board the ODK train !
  • sharing "real life" forms in a standardized way and in a dedicated place, would be another big help and a great way to capitalize a lot of individual efforts. In a second time, it could be the same for more collected data managment work (data flow managment, SQL or API queries).
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