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[kasun perera <kkasunperera@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:25 PM, kasun perera <kkasunperera@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
>

Anyone had time to look at my proposal? I appreciate any feedback so that I
can improve my proposal 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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lars Kristian RolandLars@xxxxxxxxx+47 90733036 www.apus.no - lars.roland.bz
>>
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>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Kasun Perera
>
>


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Regards

Kasun Perera