[FOSS4G2016] Ebola and other Keynote

[Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl)]

Good morning y'all!

Which brings me to de general question (espicailly to Marc and Codrina):
Any news from the keynote front? Or should i already prepare a mail to 
Ton Zijlstra?


Kind regards,

GJ



Volker Mische schreef op 02-05-2016 8:13:
> 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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