[FOSS4G2016] Fwd: Ebola Keynote

[Volker Mische]

Hi LOC,

sadly Patricia does have time to give the talk (she would've been
excited to give it though). So sadly we don't have another keynote.

Cheers,
  Volker


On 04/27/2016 09:59 AM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
> 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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