[FOSS4G2016] Fwd: Ebola Keynote

[Marc Vloemans]

Ah
That's why I did not get reply on my mail to her
Will now chase GertJan's suggestion
By the way, NGA got back to me that our invitation was still in approval process

Keep you posted

Vriendelijke groet,
Marc Vloemans


> Op 2 mei 2016 om 08:13 heeft Volker Mische <volker.mische at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 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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