[FOSS4G2016] Fwd: Ebola Keynote

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi,

another proposal from Volker Mische for a keynote.

Pluspoint: Would be a woman and interesting topic fitting into the 
keytopic "disaster management".

Till

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Betreff: Ebola Keynote
Datum: 2016-04-27 09:53
Absender: Volker Mische <volker.mische at gmail.com>
Empfänger: Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de>

Hi Till,

here's the details to a potential keynote that fits the disaster topic.
It's from a project from eHealth Africa [1] to fight Ebola. The talk 
was
already presented at the JSConf EU [2] (a really high profile
conference), that talk is really worth a watch. It was presented by
Patricia Garcia, she was technical lead. She now longer works for
eHealth Africa, but I don't think that's a problem.

Its main topics are are how to reduce the response times. How open
source was used. How great open source communities are. It also gets a
bit technical about which lessons were learned from using Apache
CouchDB, which mistakes were made and what you should keep in mind when
you do sync.

For me I'd expect non technical people to be impressed how fast such a
system can be built and how great open source is, for technical people
it gets into enough detail to be interesting.

[1]: http://www.ehealthafrica.org/
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sLjWlWvCsc

Cheers,
   Volker