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[kasun perera <kkasunperera@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars and Saptarshi

I have uploaded the first version of my project proposal to the
google-melange site. Can you please have a look at it and give me a
feedback, so that I can improve it further.

Thanks


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Lars Kristian Roland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I guess if you'd like to push voice reminders, you make another SMS
> gateway interface, but use it to interface with an external voice system
> instead.
>
> Not sure how good the tts options are, if it's viable and people will
> understand it. I think pre-recorded messages (your option 1) sounds good.
>
> I think on option could be to use the Instedd voice gateway, or some other
> voicexml service.
>
> Lars
>
>
> On 13.04.2013 17:54, kasun perera wrote:
>
> Hi Lars
>
>  Thanks for you answers.
>
>  So if i summarize these are the SMS availability in the system.
> 1) Automated SMS for program ; template based SMS ( SMS on joined date,
> reminder after sometime)
> 2) Automated SMS for program stage; template based SMS (reminder
> before appointments, reminder for missed appointments)
> 3) Manual option for sending SMS- Not template based or pre-populated.
>
>  As in DHIS-GSOC idea page voice reminder facility will be created for
> above option 2) for this project.
>
>  These are some of my initial ideas for the GSOC proposal, please provide
> your feedback on this.
>
>  There is the option to convert SMS itself to a voice message using
> a Text to Speech engine(TTS). This is good and easy option for English and
> few other languages where good TTS systems are already available. But fact
> that  this is a community based system and intended receivers
> most probably speak only their local language, and there may not be good
> TTS systems available for community languages.I will completely avoid the
> path of using a Text to Speech engine(TTS).
>
>  I propose to create all the voice call reminder
> "setting functionalities" next to SMS functionality already available in
> the system, rather than creating them on new web pages. (Yes, it may need
> to create new pages for recording messages, uploading messages ect.. )This
> would be more convenient for system users.
>
>  Sample SMS reminder- /Dear / {patient-name}./ Please remember your/
> {program-stage-name}/ on/ {due-date}./
> Thank you./
> To create a voice reminder inline with this-
> Option 1- This need to record the voice in 7- sub-sections and combined
> it programatically to  create a one voice massage them push over the PBX.
> Option 2- Create a complete voice message for each individual
> person separately.For this system admin has to put huge time and effort to
> create voice messages, so i'm omitting  option 2.
>
>  So there will be need to voice some of the patient details(patient-name,
> due-date). This voicing of patient details would be done at later stage but
> not at the initial patient registration time. Will it be better to give the
> option to upload or create voice recordings at the "Person Management"
> console or create a separate web page for this?
>
>  Thanks
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Lars Kristian Roland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  Thanks for your interest. See responses below and don't hesitate to ask
>> again if I haven't answered all your questions.
>>
>> On 12.04.2013 11:49, kasun perera wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>  I'm just playing around with the SMS facility to get an understanding
>> how it work, since I hope proposed automated calling would work
>> in similar fashion. I'm trying this on demo server
>> http://apps.dhis2.org/demo
>>
>>  Few questions
>> 1) I have added a new person, assign him a TB visit program. From the
>> Person Dashbored I can see the history of the person. On "Reschedule and
>> set Status" menu there is a option to send a message. It has given textbox
>> to write a message, can this text box populated with template messages
>> already written? If yes how can I do that?
>> Will this send the message immediately or will it send at scheduled time?
>>
>>  This is the manual option for sending a message, and it's not
>> prepopulated. The automatic (reminder) messages are set in the program
>> setup, either on the stages or on the program itself (the latter only being
>> available in the very latest software) and not on demo.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  2) Maintenance >  Programs and Persons > Automated Message Reminder
>> I can see only text box for time input, and Start button
>> and Execute button
>> I activated Start button, will this activate sending messages for all
>> users or
>> Can this be configured that message to be send only to perticuler group,
>> for eg. reminders will send to TB patients but not for Child program?
>>
>>   This is the batch job for sending out automatic reminders. When this
>> process is running, it'll generate messages for the next day at midnight
>> and then send out the messages the next day. These reminders are sent out
>> as configured in the 'Stage' of Maintenance -> Persons and programs ->
>> Program -> View program stages (icon) -> Edit stage, bottom of page. This
>> is a message related to each stage, and is meant as a reminder SMS. So it
>> could be an SMS 5 days before a visit is due, with a reminder to come, or
>> with educational messages if you prefer that.
>>
>> On the instant build of trunk apps2.dhis2.org/dev which has the trunk
>> version, there is also an automated message for the program itself, set
>> with regard to when the user joined the program. So you can then set for
>> example that someone joining the TB program will get an SMS on the day they
>> joined, and 2 months afterwards.
>>
>> The thing about these servers is that they are reset every night, so the
>> alert configuration doesn't survive. So the demo and dev servers don't work
>> properly with the alerts. For some of the alert functions, you can press
>> 'Execute' to process immediately, and see that the message is in the
>> 'Mobile configuration' -> View sent SMS page. BUT for this to appear there,
>> there might have to be an SMS configuration under 'SMS Service
>> configuration'. This gets reset every night, and we need to add a dummy SMS
>> configuration so we don't have to create a configuration every time.
>>
>>
>>  Documentation Says see "Add program stage section for defining a
>> template message " I can't find this adding template message on system can
>> someone please point it to me?
>>
>>  Maintenance -> Persons and programs -> Program -> View program stages
>> (icon) -> Edit stage, bottom of page.
>>
>> This is for the automatic reminders, not the manual reminders you mention
>> in the beginning of your email.
>>
>> Best regards
>> (mobi)Lars
>>
>>
>>  Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:58 AM, kasun perera <kkasunperera@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>
>>>  I am a Mphil student of University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri
>>> lanka. I have worked in software industry, 1.5 years for opensource
>>> software companies. I’m well experienced developer in java/ jsp-servelts/
>>> jquery. I have written several research papers also.
>>>
>>>  I’m interested on idea -Dialplan (PBX) generation for patient
>>> communication. I have already downloaded the sourcecode build it on
>>> Eclipse. I’m reading the documentation and trying to get better
>>> understanding of the source code specially the DHIS2-Tracker section.
>>>
>>>  I tried to run the dhis.war file and standalone program, but could not
>>> succeed. It gave me this error “Exception in thread "Thread-2"
>>> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space” Seems to be a memory problem,
>>> i’m running this on my laptop having 2Gb RAM. Does it need lot of memory to
>>> run?
>>>
>>>  Will it be interested to create some mockups for the user interfaces
>>> that I’m planning to develop and submit with the proposal?
>>>
>>>  Below is brief about my opensource experience related PBX systems.
>>>
>>>  I have worked for projects Feasibility study to enable Freedom Fone
>>> with voice-based Emergency Data Exchange (FF4EDXL) (
>>> http://lirneasia.net/projects/2010-12-research-program/ff4edxl/) and
>>>
>>> Voice-enabled Information Communication Technology for Disaster
>>> Management (
>>> http://lirneasia.net/projects/2010-12-research-program/voiceict4d/) as
>>> a Reserch assistant/ Analist programmer.
>>>
>>>  We have used Sahana Eden (http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/) a well
>>> known disaster managemed system combined with Freedomfone (
>>> http://freedomfone.com/) an opensource IVR build using FreeSWITCH. The
>>> basic workflow is; when disaster happens ground level coordinators call the
>>> system and leave a situation report, later they may call asking for their
>>> disaster needs. These voice messages routed to Shana system and converted
>>> into text and saved.  Central hub operators act upon the messages they have
>>> received. This video explains the scenario in more detail
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47owqEgBjXk&feature=youtu.be
>>>
>>>  Thanks
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>>  --
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Kasun Perera
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>  --
>> Regards
>>
>> Kasun Perera
>>
>>
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>
>  --
> Regards
>
> Kasun Perera
>
>
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Regards

Kasun Perera