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[Andy Loughran <andy@xxxxxxxx>]

Who am I?

Andy Loughran

Which NGO or other organisation do I work for?

I was working for a medical charity, called 'Love the One' when I joined
ubuntu-ngo.  However, now my interest is mainly personal.

Where you organisation is involved?

The organisation was based in India, in both Kerala and Chhattissgargh
States.

How I made use of Ubuntu, and how I would like to use it in future.

I don't think there's scope for really detailing my experience in the
introduction email, suffice to say that I wasn't afforded enough time to be
able to complete what I wanted to as far as ubuntu was concerned.
Unfortunately, there was also the 'cult of mac' whereby 6 months into my
internship, instead of going down the ubuntu route, two of the Doctors
surprised my by turning up with Macs - then spend the next few months
complaining that I wasn't as good at fixing them as I was for their WinXP
machines.

What would be the biggest stumbling blocks?

IT provision is a full-time role, not a part time one :)  I needed to have
more time to be able to achieve what I wanted, as well as having the support
of the charity.  I ran some simple stuff like a CMS for the charity website,
and ended up using Google Apps for email (purely for the simplicity).  We
were only a small organisation, so expanding IT use was really out of
scope.  The other problem I had was massive infrastructure disruption, with
power being intermittent, and in some cases non-existant.  Sometimes paper
just works best.

Why am I still here?

I'd like to keep updated on the way in which NGOs are currently using Ubuntu
- new approaches - and the way in which traditional IT supply chains can be
disrupted productively by using an OSS/Ubuntu solution.  I have a couple of
other charities which come to me for procurement advice, so keeping up to
date with this list

Regards,

Andy

On 2 December 2010 19:02, Carl Leitner <litlfred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> 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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