2nd openXdata meeting

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The 2nd openXdata meeting will be held on 7th - 13th of November 2009 in Entebbe, Uganda.

The aims of this meeting is to bring together the developers and users communities of openXdata to review the progress made this far and set the agenda and goals for the coming year.

Registration: Please send an email to workshop09 AT openxdata.org

Venue: Imperial Botanical Garden Beach Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda. Details here

Table of Contents

Program overview:

The workshop starts and ends with dedicated software developers days, all other participants are adviced to arrive on Monday evening or Tuesday morning.

Schedule:

• Nov. 8th Sunday Developers meeting (part 1)
• Nov. 9th Monday Developers meeting (part 1)
• Nov. 10th Tuesday General meeting on openXdata/OMEVAC
• Nov. 11th Wednesday General meeting on openXdata/OMEVAC
• Nov. 12th Thursday General meeting on openXdata/OMEVAC (morning)
  Public launch of openXdata (afternoon)
• Nov. 13th Friday Developers meeting (part 2)

Ad-hoc events:

• November 14.-15. Ad-hoc trip to national park.
• November 16.-18. Ad-hoc follow-up meetings

Developers Meeting Part 1 (Nov 8-9)

• Review of existing architecture openXdata architecture (Daniel Kayiiwa)
• Review of documentation for V1 (Mark Musooba)
• Develop training materials for new developers (Simon Muwanga)
• openXdata bugs and way forward (Daniel Kayiiwa)
• Discuss the structure of purcforms (Daniel Kayiwa)
• Recommendations for version 2 (Bruce Macloed)
• Discuss the course (Khalid Mughal)

General Meeting (Nov 10-12)

Tuesday

08:00 - 10:00

• Welcome (by Peter, 15min)
• Introduction to OMEVAC / openxdata (Jorn, 1hr)
  • Background of openXdata (requirements)
  • Proposed Openxdata functionalities
  • Introduction to OMEVAC
  • Overview of Openxdata future plans (where we are and where we are going)
• Experiences of openXdata implementations (45min)
  • IRD Pakistan (15min)
  • HANDSREL (15min)
  • Makerere (15min)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee/Tea break

10:30 - 11:30

• Critical review of current solution (step-by-step through all functions / use -cases)
  • Management
    • Design
    • Settings
    • Users
    • Data management
    • Data export
    • Data editing
  • Mobile
  • SMS
  • Web (Emit)

11:30 - 13:00

• Emerging new functions (functionality / reasons)
  • openXdata Workflows (Peter Wakholi, 20min)
  • openXdata Entities (Nishant Verma, 20 min)
  • openXdata integration with OpenClinica (Brian, 20 min)
  • openXdata Mapping / GIS (Hans Terje, 10 min)
  • openXdata Statistics integration of R (Raghu Mittal, 15 min)
  • ACASI (Stig Solholm, 10 min)

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 16:00 Group sessions reviewing functionality

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee / Tea break

16:00 - 17:00 Review of group work

17:00 - 18:00 Paralell sessions

1. Coders: Implications of the issues raised during the day
2. General: Research areas - sharing of experiences and emerging issues (Rahel Bekele)

20:00 Dinner time

Wednesday

Topics to be covered:

• Capacity Building and Training (Khalid Mughal)
• Application in Clinical Trials (Thorkild or Aamir)
• Feedback from Developers (Charles Tumwebaze)
• What is happening within the various teams (geographical teams)
• Software consortium - licences, board etc (Jorn)
• Strategies for deployment, support and ad-hoc requirements (Peter Wakholi)
• Introduction to 7th International Conference on E-Governance (April 22-24, 2009) at Bangalore (Shashank Garg)
• Partners (who and where, and capacity)
• Potential new project? What is our capacity
• Separate support team? Maybe part of quality assurance?
• Admin / End-user Training and support (separate from development)
• Discussions on the launch - what are we doing now? roles and responsibilities (Peter Wakholi)

openXdata Launch (Nov 12)

• Potential use mobile technologies (Bruce?)
• What is openxdata? (Jorn)
• Sharing of experiences (Use cases)
  • Pakistan
  • India
  • Uganda
  • Rwanda
  • Ghana
  • WHO
  • Iganga
• Possible application areas
  • Project monitoring
  • Health
  • Election Monitoring
  • Agriculture
• Demonstration of tool (Daniel Kayiiwa)
• Cocktail

Developers Meeting Part 2 (Nov 13)

• Concrete plans
• A.O.B

Ideas for the Developers Meeting Program

Security

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Versioning of data

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Export functionality

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Mapping package

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Statistical package

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User managmenet

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Device management

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Entities package

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Integration with Open Clinica (mobileclinica or openxtrial?)

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Implementation of Workflow (Sliver based)

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Implementation of AudioForms (ACASI)

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Management structure for developers

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Management structure for end-user support

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Implement UUID as identifiers

UUID (GUID) is needed if two or more instances of openxdata will be synchronizing against the same database.

Design of user interface of openXdata

Review and plan for revisions to improve usability. Initial ideas:

• Create a switchboard
• Separate design from management
• Allow for easier integration of new components e.g. GIS, statistics and entities

Ideas for the General Meeting Program

Ideas for the Launch