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Agenda & Attendees

Attendees: Jake Watson, Brandon Bowersox-Johnson (Day 1 only)

Agenda & Docs: https://forum.opendatakit.org/t/documenting-the-odk-convening/7041 


Notes and Key Points

Background & Introductions Day 1

History
  • History (by Richard Anderson)
    • original team was Gaetano Boriello, Waylon Brunette, Carl Hartung, Yaw Anokwa at UW
    • first release in 2009
    • originally people thought the idea of sending Android phones into Africa was crazy!
  • ODK 2 is fundamentally different than 1.0, and is not a replacement for 1.0
    • ODK 2 is about connecting to databases, syncing, JavaScript control, etc. It is "a platform for data management", totally different than 1.0 but not replacing it.
    • "we regret the naming of 1.0 and 2.0" ... think of ODK Red and ODK Blue instead 
  • ODK started as a university research project
    • with open source code as its core, the university research model means it is tied to student projects; the university model can support trying new things and experimenting, BUT "you cannot give someone a PhD for maintaining existing software codebase"
    • a different university model would be like HISP at University of Oslo, creating an Institute or Center as an organization inside a university
  • Time pressure:
    • October 2017 is the Transition Deadline
    • ODK 2.0 will release in September 2017
    • field testing of ODK 2.0 is underway currently
    • UW is no longer offering the same level of on-going organizational support for ODK after this transition, but wants it to land in good hands for the long term
Contributions / Open Source Activity
  • Contributions / Open Source Activity (by Yaw Anokwa):
    • "open source is just a license" and it does not ensure a healthy community
  • recently the community has made a huge push for contributions and community
    • people with different backgrounds are contributing now
    • translations, bug reports, support all count as a contribution
    • there is a team of people actively reviewing every single line of code contributed; they are also thanking everyone who contributes in every way

Concept Notes / Future Organization Models for ODK

Direct links to Concept Notes: 

  • Note A Join an Existing Foundation
  • Note B New ODK Nonprofit with Paid Staff
  • Note C Become Part of a New Nonprofit Foundation of Software for Social Good
  • Note D Hybrid – Establish New Nonprofit Partnering with Small Consortium of ODK-related Companies to Maintain and Further Develop ODK
  • Note E Existing for-Profit Company
  • Note F The (Nearly) “Nothing” Approach

Raw feedback on the 6 concepts:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fJ15ooHQJrkxVYhqZ4biIzDmP24vArqwu5AwDd7ueb0/

(notes about group discussion on each concept is also included in the 6 Note links above)

Survey Feedback

From a community survey conducted as input to this event (presented by Waylon):

Raw fe


More Photos

Day 1 introduction on challenges of maintaining open source global good software (by Richard Anderson from UW):

Day 1 ground rules including respect and "up-twinkles" (by Shauna, a hired facilitator):

New contribution activity by these people:


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