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[Carl Leitner <litlfred@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/29/2010 05:51 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>   - who you are
Carl Leitner.
>   - which NGO or other organisation you work for
I work for Intrahealth International which is NGO largely funded by USAID.
We do Health Care Systems Strengthening with particular focus on Human
Resources for Health.
>   - where your organisation is involved
Pakistan, Togo, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania + Zanzibar, Botswana
Lesotho, India, and hopefully many more to soon follow.
>   - how you make use of Ubuntu there or would like to use Ubuntu
We have developed a suite of Human Resource software
  https://launchpad.net/ihris-suite/
designed for use in low-resource environments and which address particular
needs of the health workforce.  Our software is built on the LAMP 
architecture
and we mainly support Ubuntu.
>   - what you see as biggest stumbling blocks in terms of using Ubuntu
The first is finding people with a large experience in Ubuntu in 
country.  We do
training (see for example)
  
http://www.capacityproject.org/hris/blog/index.php/2010/09/carl-leitner-begins-his-journey-to-the-his-unconference-in-ghana/
but it would be nice to have a known pool of local Ubuntu experts we can 
draw on,
as well as trainings that we could send our developers/administrators to.

The second is technical: We have "Appliances" that we use:
   http://www.capacityproject.org/hris/suite/ihris_appliance.php
and have had huge problems with software RAID especially on distribution 
upgrades


> It'd be great if we could identify this way where commonalities in the
> team are and if we can find folks who would like to work on solving some
> of the problems together.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance, let's revive this list again!
>
> Have a great day,
>   Daniel
>
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