Request to provide input on Sahana mobile application on Openmoko
Hi All, I am trying to collect data to include in my report as a part of research and preliminary analysis for my project. So I request you all to kindly take out time to fill up the survey that I have created here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pWeVl6IM9h6UKAGOx231pFA I highly urge you to complete the survey in full and help me with the research. Any inputs and suggestions are welcome. Thanks & Regards, Ajay Kumar http://ajuonline.net ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Request to provide input on Sahana mobile application on Openmoko
Hi All, A gentle reminder and request to everyone subscribed on the list to provide input through the survey I have created for the Sahana mobile project I am working on right now. So far, I have received only 6-10 responses from actual domain experts and Sahana developers. Since I am basing my developing on the Openmoko platform, I expect to understand more about the system, and so far only a few less than 5-10 people from the Openmoko community have responded. I am sure there are more available on the list, so I'd request you to fill up the survey. Besides, it just takes 5-10 minutes of your time to fill it up :) The link to the survey is: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pWeVl6IM9h6UKAGOx231pFA Your guidance and input will help me have a greater understanding of the domain and its utility. Thanks & Regards, Ajay Kumar http://ajuonline.net ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Sahana Client on Openmoko [Discussion]
Hi All, I am Ajay Kumar, 25 year old, Software Engineering student currently in my final year, and a Sahana Developer. Post GSoC 2008, I am working on a separate project where my main motive is to use the Openmoko phone, FreeRunner as an effective disaster reporting tool and data communication with a client application. Primarily, I will need to use the following features of the phone and make them available to my application. 1. GPS 2. WiFI 3. Touch Input Also at a further stage, I will need to use the SMS, GPRS features too. A detailed proposal which I have written is available here for those who are interested. Proposal: http://www.ajuonline.net/academics/AJ_Openmoko_Sahana_Proposal.pdf But since the project is something new, I will be basing my development so has to have something that "just works" and then iterating it over time. My primary reasons of choosing the Openmoko phone is: 1. FOSS - matches with the Sahana ideology. 2. Larger & active developer community - it has its own benefit in terms of contributions to maintain the project in future. For your reference, my academic project duration is: 1. Mid term - End of Research & Analysis Phase: October 27 2008. 2. Final deadline & Presentation: Mid April 2009. My proposal @ college has been approved last week and I am working ahead on this project. I will be posting updates and research outcomes as I progress. Since I am new to Openmoko development, your suggestions and advise on how to get started would be really appreciated. Thanks & Regards, Ajay Kumar /me blogs @ http://ajuonline.net ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sahana Client on Openmoko [Discussion]
Hi Minh, On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Minh Ha Duong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Ask for your blog to be syndicated on the Planet. > Make a wiki page to present your project. > Yes. I have setup a Wiki dedicated to this project. I will be posting all details soon. Or do you mean, i should have it on the Openmoko Wiki ? Thanks for the suggestion. :-) Regards, AJ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: I bought the FR for what I did not have - freedom (was: Re: funny comment from a user, in response to the question of whether FR works as a daily phone:)
Somewhat similar utility to what Brian said: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Brian Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They are targeted at "hospitality and healthcare" industry. They are > just WiFi phones, no GSM no Linux. > Both of these apps have staff that are constantly moving around and > don't have a desk phone. Similar scenario, on which I am working right now, is "Disaster Management" and "Relief Operations" and supplementing these activities using the FR. > Build an app that caters to these folks and adds together WiFi + GPS + GSM > For Disaster management, Sahana is a FOSS web application just made for this purpose which has been used in real world situations. Building a solution that caters to the similar needs of Disaster reporting and data collection could well be very effective and useful for such critical solutions, with such a handy and powerful device. > > For a hotel -- from the phone, check status of any room. Use the phone > as a master key for cleaning staff. > The central Sahana server can keep track of On Field relief workers, broadcast them instructions or alerts based on their GPS location. Like, need to relocate and assign a different task ? Or say, urgently address a situation at a nearby location e.g. a victim who needs immediate help. > > When a phone leaves the building (loses WiFi VOIP registration) switch > to GSM and note it in the server. > This is a very kool thing to have, ideally we can communicate to the Sahana server over Wifi, GPRS, and SMS too. I wrote the SMS server side part, which i am still expanding. So you could just have a daemon running, which sends the GPS location of the Field Reporter, via an SMS in a timely manner. Acting like a real time GPS tracking for Sahana's system keeping track of all volunteers. Moreover, there is currently a new module in development, by Dominic on the Sahana project, which is the Dead Body Tracking and Disaster Victim Identification (in short: DVI) for Sahana. This would include body search on the scene, one thing you would preferably carry a GPS-enabled handy data input device and a hand full of labels with you .The module should be enabled to mark found items on a scene map, e.g. a grid, that's what the search team usually does. The phone, could well be used for such a purpose, if it had a camera too, it could take pictures. And an app to generate Bar codes for each body. Later it can be connected to a printer to print the bar codes and fix them on the bodies. Just few more possibilities to the list :-) I am working on this project, which aims to use the FR as an effective Disaster reporting tool for Sahana, a FOSS Disaster management system [ www.sahana.lk]. GPS, Wifi are key hardware components to start off for this, and later we can use the other modes like SMS, GPRS to exchange data between the Sahana server and the phone using a client application. Providing the field volunteers with an easy to use, touch input based phone to do all the data activity saves a lot of hassles and increases effiency thus saving time. An important *thing* in such situations.. Regards, Ajay Kumar ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freerunner a month after
Hi, I am also starting to work on a project on Openmoko, and trying to gather the same experience. So this is really guiding me ahead :-) I tried looking at the wiki, and someone on the IRC told me, that is a place which is highly unorganised and might contain old information too. And reading through the mailing list archives is also messy, not that I do not do that :-) Since, I am a total newbie to Openmoko/developing on Linux, it becomes more alien for me :-) to start. Coming to the point, I would like your opinion on how should I go about the application which I intend to develop. Link here: www.ajuonline.net/academics Which is a Stand along application for the Sahana web based FOSS disaster management system [www.sahana.lk]. Since there is no such existing solution which has totally exploited the power of advanced mobile devices that we have now for Sahana, I am planning to have the application run across various mobile devices as well. Just because, Disaster Management area is a wide area where implementation is done on anything and everything available and as per the skills of the people involved in it. Like Sahana itself being a FOSS application which started off a LAMP stack, and the developers work on the Linux environment, the implementations mostly have been on windows.. Moreover for my application I want to use the following features: 1. Wifi - to automatically scan for access points and connect to them. 2. GPS - map plottings and sending GPS co-ordinates. 3. SMS - send SMS. Automated and manually typed ones through input screen. Also i will be making my application generate sms messages based on user inputs to send it to the server. 4. GPRS connection - as an alternative connection medium. To send the data to the main server. 5. Store data locally on the memory card. Primarily, and option to synch it with the main server when connection is available or when the phone can be manually plugged into the computer/server via USB ? Also, after setting up QEMU and following the MakeFile instructions for Ubuntu i got the Qtopia build running. With 4 icons and on clicking them nothing happens. Plus I also see "No Network" Any suggestions on how to move ahead would be of great help. Regards, Ajay Kumar http://ajuonline.net ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
