---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pratik Mandrekar <pratikmandre...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:52:22 +0530 Subject: [lug-bitsgoa] Open Source project developers needed in campus To: lug-bits...@googlegroups.com
Hi Everyone, I was wondering if students and faculty on campus would be interested in taking up open source project development for a mobile health-care system? Typically in a campus environment it could be handled by a faculty who would lead students who would be working on modules depending on the local needs of the project possibly for credit or otherwise. I started working on this as part of Google Summer of Code and have also been able to get insights into their pilot projects currently underway in India (bangalore, rural Karnataka and NCR to start with). Below are excerpts from a team member. "Are you a Django expert? Android guru? Or Java wizard? Are you interested in mobile healthcare? Want to write software that can actually save lives? This is an invitation to start SANA at BITS Pilani Goa Campus. SANA is a mobile health open-source developer community, started at MIT with chapters in Harvard, Yale, and Boston University. We build apps for the Google Android platform to enable physicians in developing countries to provide expert medical care remotely. Our phone app captures patient data -- in the form of text, pictures, video, and audio -- and uploads it via WiFi, GPRS, or SMS to an open-source medical records system. Using Sana, doctors can remotely diagnose patients. Sana solves the #1 problem facing healthcare in developing nations: a lack of doctors in rural places. Come join our team. Contribute to our online developer community at http://code.google.com/p/moca/ . Visit our website for more information: http://www.sanamobile.org/"; The Sana mobile app uses OpenMRS (which is an open source Electronic Medical Record system) and my host organization too as the backend but could very well be ported to any other EMR. Sana has a couple of developers in a Delhi college and some have chosen to do it as part of their PhD thesis too. It would be great if someone from BITS could help in local development. Resources for training either through campus visit or video/audio conference are available in case someone is interested. Its a good opportunity to improve your skills in Mobile development, leaning health-care systems and software engineering while making a big difference to health conditions across the globe. Visit http://www.sanamobile.org to know more and check out some things that are currently being implemented by me here<http://asliceoflifewithspice.blogspot.com/search/label/openmrs> . Reply back to this thread or mail me back on pratikmandre...@gmail.com for more information. Thanks, Pratik Mandrekar pratikmandre...@gmail.com P.S- Please try to forward this to f200x and faculty lists across all 4 BITS campuses. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "LUG-BITSGOA" group. To post to this group, send email to lug-bits...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lug-bitsgoa+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lug-bitsgoa?hl=en. -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
