dhis2 system administration list

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob

Bob,
I think the vision is good especially for backend users who are not
too interested on the java stuff. I welcome the idea boss.

···

On 10/8/14, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system
administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the
operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine
images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about
users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I'd run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest.
Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If
there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers
Bob

--
Regards,

Gerald

The idea is great, this domain is growing especially with security bugs being discovered here and there and which needs attention of system admins, also the could is expanding, a group dedicated to that will be helpful in the implementation of DHIS-2

regards,

JPaul

···

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:54 PM, gerald thomas gerald17006@gmail.com wrote:

Bob,

I think the vision is good especially for backend users who are not

too interested on the java stuff. I welcome the idea boss.

On 10/8/14, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system

administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the

operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine

images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about

users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest.

Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If

there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob

Regards,

Gerald


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Absolutely great idea!

………………………………………

Regards,

Dapo Adejumo

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Sent: 9 October, 2014 8:35 AM
To: gerald thomas
Cc: dhis2-users; Steven Uggowitzer; dhis2-devs
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] [Dhis2-users] dhis2 system administration list

The idea is great, this domain is growing especially with security bugs being discovered here and there and which needs attention of system admins, also the could is expanding, a group dedicated to that will be helpful in the implementation of DHIS-2

regards,

JPaul

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:54 PM, gerald thomas gerald17006@gmail.com wrote:

Bob,
I think the vision is good especially for backend users who are not
too interested on the java stuff. I welcome the idea boss.

On 10/8/14, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system
administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the
operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine
images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about
users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest.
Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If
there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers
Bob


Regards,

Gerald


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It’s ok. The idea is welcome.

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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:54 PM, gerald thomas gerald17006@gmail.com wrote:

Bob,

I think the vision is good especially for backend users who are not

too interested on the java stuff. I welcome the idea boss.

On 10/8/14, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system

administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the

operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine

images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about

users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest.

Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If

there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob

Regards,

Gerald


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Brilliant idea,

I support the Idea.

···

“Better Information, better Decisions, better Health”

  • MUHIRE
    Andrew*

Head of HMIS / Ministry of Health

“A mind/brain is a terrible thing to waste”

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On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 11:30 PM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob


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Excellent idea Bob.

Busoye

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On 9 Oct 2014, at 10:21, Muhire Andrew muhireandrew@yahoo.com wrote:

Brilliant idea,

I support the Idea.


“Better Information, better Decisions, better Health”

MUHIRE Andrew

Head of HMIS / Ministry of Health

“A mind/brain is a terrible thing to waste”

--------------------------------------

** Cell:(+250)788436150**

*** Twitter :muhire_andrew***

**** skype:muhire_andrew****

link to HMIS system: https://hmis.moh.gov.rw/hmis

On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 11:30 PM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob


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Not really sure I see the need… except for the commit messages, there is not really that many developer related questions on this list (we have a history of doing off-list discussions instead).

Maybe a better solution would be to unsubscribe from the commit messages (people can subscribe to them manually), which would mean that this “dev” list would be quiet again.

···


Morten

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Adebusoye Anifalaje busoye@hisp.org wrote:

Excellent idea Bob.

Busoye

On 9 Oct 2014, at 10:21, Muhire Andrew muhireandrew@yahoo.com wrote:

Brilliant idea,

I support the Idea.


“Better Information, better Decisions, better Health”

MUHIRE Andrew

Head of HMIS / Ministry of Health

“A mind/brain is a terrible thing to waste”

--------------------------------------

** Cell:(+250)788436150**

*** Twitter :muhire_andrew***

**** skype:muhire_andrew****

link to HMIS system: https://hmis.moh.gov.rw/hmis

On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 11:30 PM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob


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Brilliant idea.
Let’s go for it.

Alex

···

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

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Technical Advisor - DHIS2,
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Kampala

Uganda

IT Consultant - BarefootPower Uganda Ltd, SmartSolar, Kenya

IT Specialist (Servers, Networks and Security, Health Information Systems - DHIS2 ) & Solar Consultant

+256 774149 775, + 256 759 800161

"I don’t want to be anything other than what I have been - one tree hill "

Hi Bob,
I see the need, but am a bit concerned about establishing another mailing list. You can see from the dev list, that there are A LOT of non-dev topics already. Some of these are implementation issues, some end-user support, and a small smattering of Java jabberwocky. The dev list has sort of become the default mailing list for everything, and this is where people tend to go for support. The user list receives much less traffic, in spite of the fact that most of what is on the dev list is really not development related. While I think it is a good idea, there is inertia to overcome.

Another idea which we have been contemplating is the establishment of a forum. This came out of the meeting in Oslo a few weeks back. I have been working with Lars Helge on this, but there is some more work which needs to be done before it would even be ready for testing. However,maybe a forum would be a better media for such discussions?

Regards,

Jason

···

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Alex Tumwesigye atumwesigye@gmail.com wrote:

Brilliant idea.
Let’s go for it.

Alex


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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob


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Kampala

Uganda

IT Consultant - BarefootPower Uganda Ltd, SmartSolar, Kenya

IT Specialist (Servers, Networks and Security, Health Information Systems - DHIS2 ) & Solar Consultant

+256 774149 775, + 256 759 800161

"I don’t want to be anything other than what I have been - one tree hill "

Hi,

I did some analysis of the email messages on our dev and users lists (for research purposes), not looking at the content, but at the number of messages and number of people.

Since 2011, the number of ‘listeners’ to these lists have grown tremendously, although the number of messages has remained quite constant (I only counted messages sent from people, not machines so not counting automated messages).

This leads me to believe that maybe we could have a discussion on how these lists could work better. Could it be that there are many people out there who maybe would like to ask questions but are afraid to do so because several hundred people will get their email? For some type of questions, would other formats be better? Stackexchange-like messaging? Forum-based messaging? Jason has a good point with this. But different discussions have different ‘optimal’ media…

Anyway, I’m jus throwing this into the discussion. To keep to the topic, I think a sysadm list could be useful.

Best regards,

Lars

···

2014-10-09 13:34 GMT+02:00 Jason Pickering jason.p.pickering@gmail.com:

Hi Bob,
I see the need, but am a bit concerned about establishing another mailing list. You can see from the dev list, that there are A LOT of non-dev topics already. Some of these are implementation issues, some end-user support, and a small smattering of Java jabberwocky. The dev list has sort of become the default mailing list for everything, and this is where people tend to go for support. The user list receives much less traffic, in spite of the fact that most of what is on the dev list is really not development related. While I think it is a good idea, there is inertia to overcome.

Another idea which we have been contemplating is the establishment of a forum. This came out of the meeting in Oslo a few weeks back. I have been working with Lars Helge on this, but there is some more work which needs to be done before it would even be ready for testing. However,maybe a forum would be a better media for such discussions?

Regards,

Jason


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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Alex Tumwesigye atumwesigye@gmail.com wrote:

Brilliant idea.
Let’s go for it.

Alex


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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob


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IT Consultant - BarefootPower Uganda Ltd, SmartSolar, Kenya

IT Specialist (Servers, Networks and Security, Health Information Systems - DHIS2 ) & Solar Consultant

+256 774149 775, + 256 759 800161

"I don’t want to be anything other than what I have been - one tree hill "

Hi Jason

I think there are different problems to address here.

That developer discussion doesn’t happen on the devs list is certainly a problem. It should. That is a question of transparency and process which we should improve on.

I don’t think we should encourage the use of the dev list for all manner of things, but rather encourage that it is used for what it was meant to be used for. Or drop it or rename it.

Anyway I was not trying to solve all our community building efforts related to lists with this mail. Just airing an idea that Steven raised, which I think might be quite useful. Whether it is list, forum, usenet group or googlegroup I don’t have too strong a preference.

Not much time right now anyway, but will keep listening to hear what people say.

Bob

···

On 9 October 2014 12:34, Jason Pickering jason.p.pickering@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Bob,
I see the need, but am a bit concerned about establishing another mailing list. You can see from the dev list, that there are A LOT of non-dev topics already. Some of these are implementation issues, some end-user support, and a small smattering of Java jabberwocky. The dev list has sort of become the default mailing list for everything, and this is where people tend to go for support. The user list receives much less traffic, in spite of the fact that most of what is on the dev list is really not development related. While I think it is a good idea, there is inertia to overcome.

Another idea which we have been contemplating is the establishment of a forum. This came out of the meeting in Oslo a few weeks back. I have been working with Lars Helge on this, but there is some more work which needs to be done before it would even be ready for testing. However,maybe a forum would be a better media for such discussions?

Regards,

Jason


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Brilliant idea.
Let’s go for it.

Alex


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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob


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IT Consultant - BarefootPower Uganda Ltd, SmartSolar, Kenya

IT Specialist (Servers, Networks and Security, Health Information Systems - DHIS2 ) & Solar Consultant

+256 774149 775, + 256 759 800161

"I don’t want to be anything other than what I have been - one tree hill "

-1 for any kind of forum. I would love some kind of stackexchange like “forum” (or whatever its called, QA) though, much better for upvoting answers etc, we could even piggyback on existing solutions instead of hosting our own.

Who knows, they might even let us add a DHIS2 section.

···


Morten

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Jason

I think there are different problems to address here.

That developer discussion doesn’t happen on the devs list is certainly a problem. It should. That is a question of transparency and process which we should improve on.

I don’t think we should encourage the use of the dev list for all manner of things, but rather encourage that it is used for what it was meant to be used for. Or drop it or rename it.

Anyway I was not trying to solve all our community building efforts related to lists with this mail. Just airing an idea that Steven raised, which I think might be quite useful. Whether it is list, forum, usenet group or googlegroup I don’t have too strong a preference.

Not much time right now anyway, but will keep listening to hear what people say.

Bob


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On 9 October 2014 12:34, Jason Pickering jason.p.pickering@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Bob,
I see the need, but am a bit concerned about establishing another mailing list. You can see from the dev list, that there are A LOT of non-dev topics already. Some of these are implementation issues, some end-user support, and a small smattering of Java jabberwocky. The dev list has sort of become the default mailing list for everything, and this is where people tend to go for support. The user list receives much less traffic, in spite of the fact that most of what is on the dev list is really not development related. While I think it is a good idea, there is inertia to overcome.

Another idea which we have been contemplating is the establishment of a forum. This came out of the meeting in Oslo a few weeks back. I have been working with Lars Helge on this, but there is some more work which needs to be done before it would even be ready for testing. However,maybe a forum would be a better media for such discussions?

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Jason


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Brilliant idea.
Let’s go for it.

Alex


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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob


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IT Consultant - BarefootPower Uganda Ltd, SmartSolar, Kenya

IT Specialist (Servers, Networks and Security, Health Information Systems - DHIS2 ) & Solar Consultant

+256 774149 775, + 256 759 800161

"I don’t want to be anything other than what I have been - one tree hill "

i.e. something like http://serverfault.com/

···


Morten

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Morten Olav Hansen mortenoh@gmail.com wrote:

-1 for any kind of forum. I would love some kind of stackexchange like “forum” (or whatever its called, QA) though, much better for upvoting answers etc, we could even piggyback on existing solutions instead of hosting our own.

Who knows, they might even let us add a DHIS2 section.


Morten

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Jason

I think there are different problems to address here.

That developer discussion doesn’t happen on the devs list is certainly a problem. It should. That is a question of transparency and process which we should improve on.

I don’t think we should encourage the use of the dev list for all manner of things, but rather encourage that it is used for what it was meant to be used for. Or drop it or rename it.

Anyway I was not trying to solve all our community building efforts related to lists with this mail. Just airing an idea that Steven raised, which I think might be quite useful. Whether it is list, forum, usenet group or googlegroup I don’t have too strong a preference.

Not much time right now anyway, but will keep listening to hear what people say.

Bob


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On 9 October 2014 12:34, Jason Pickering jason.p.pickering@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Bob,
I see the need, but am a bit concerned about establishing another mailing list. You can see from the dev list, that there are A LOT of non-dev topics already. Some of these are implementation issues, some end-user support, and a small smattering of Java jabberwocky. The dev list has sort of become the default mailing list for everything, and this is where people tend to go for support. The user list receives much less traffic, in spite of the fact that most of what is on the dev list is really not development related. While I think it is a good idea, there is inertia to overcome.

Another idea which we have been contemplating is the establishment of a forum. This came out of the meeting in Oslo a few weeks back. I have been working with Lars Helge on this, but there is some more work which needs to be done before it would even be ready for testing. However,maybe a forum would be a better media for such discussions?

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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Alex Tumwesigye atumwesigye@gmail.com wrote:

Brilliant idea.
Let’s go for it.

Alex


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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob


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Alex Tumwesigye

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Ministry of Health/AFENET

Kampala

Uganda

IT Consultant - BarefootPower Uganda Ltd, SmartSolar, Kenya

IT Specialist (Servers, Networks and Security, Health Information Systems - DHIS2 ) & Solar Consultant

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"I don’t want to be anything other than what I have been - one tree hill "

Very good idea!!

I totally support this.

Venuste.

Excellent idea Bob.

Busoye

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Le Jeudi 9 octobre 2014 11h41, Adebusoye Anifalaje busoye@hisp.org a écrit :

On 9 Oct 2014, at 10:21, Muhire Andrew muhireandrew@yahoo.com wrote:

Brilliant idea,

I support the Idea.


“Better Information, better Decisions, better Health”

MUHIRE
Andrew

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On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 11:30 PM, Bob Jolliffe > bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.

Cheers

Bob


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Nice idea,

We can add it on a DHIS2 section.

Sincerely,

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Guy

MOPH - Cameroon

Le Vendredi 10 octobre 2014 10h18, nsanzumuhire venuste vensanze@yahoo.fr a écrit :

Very good idea!!

I totally support this.

Venuste.

Le Jeudi 9 octobre 2014 11h41, Adebusoye Anifalaje busoye@hisp.org a écrit :

Excellent idea Bob.

Busoye

On 9 Oct 2014, at 10:21, Muhire Andrew muhireandrew@yahoo.com wrote:

Brilliant idea,

I support the Idea.


“Better Information, better Decisions, better Health”

MUHIRE
Andrew

Head of HMIS / Ministry of Health

“A mind/brain is a terrible thing to waste”

--------------------------------------

** Cell:(+250)788436150**

*** Twitter :muhire_andrew***

**** skype:muhire_andrew****

link to HMIS system: https://hmis.moh.gov.rw/hmis

On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 11:30 PM, Bob Jolliffe > bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system administrators list. Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine images etc.

Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.

I said I’d run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest. Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not). If there is sufficient interest we can look at setting
up.

Cheers

Bob


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