[FOSS4G2016] Ebola Keynote

[Volker Mische]

Hi Marc,

I'll try to get in touch with Patricia as I know others of that project
well. Once the contact is made, would it be OK if I then forward it to
you and let you do the hard work?

Cheers,
  Volker


On 04/27/2016 11:36 AM, Marc VLOEMANS wrote:
> If thumbs up from you guys, I will chase her tonight. (Also GertJans
> suggestion at same Tim; to be safe)
> 
> Love the idea of having a more diverse speaker forum. 
> 
> Op woensdag 27 april 2016 heeft <till.adams at fossgis.de
> <mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>> het volgende geschreven:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     another proposal from Volker Mische for a keynote.
> 
>     Pluspoint: Would be a woman and interesting topic fitting into the
>     keytopic "disaster management".
> 
>     Till
> 
>     -------- Originalnachricht --------
>     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
> 
> 
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> 
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