Re: [Dhis2-users] Aggregated data collection, offline

2013-05-02 Thread Lars Helge Ă˜verland
Hi Rodolfo, unfortunately you need to be online when opening the data entry screen. However, as long as you keep the browser window open, it will work. You can also hibernate your computer, meaning you can resume work offline after hibernating if you don't close the browser window. We are

Re: [Dhis2-users] [Dhis2-devs] Server specifications

2013-05-02 Thread Bob Jolliffe
Hi Orvalho On 1 May 2013 15:07, Orvalho Augusto orvaq...@gmail.com wrote: It is true that hardware prices have decreased a lot. But for me it seems too excessive these recommendations. So I am wondering how we arrived to these recommendations. Would be nice if we share that. And for

[Dhis2-users] From 'District' to 'Decentralized' and 'Software' to 'System'

2013-05-02 Thread Prosper BT
Dear team, Quite often end users especially below and above the district level have asked Why 'District' and we have struggled to explain this by first telling history. In passing someone suggested renaming District to Decentralized and Software to System. What it if in respect of maintaining

Re: [Dhis2-users] From 'District' to 'Decentralized' and 'Software' to 'System'

2013-05-02 Thread Jason Pickering
Hi Proper, Remember, with open source software, you are free to call it what you want! I know of a private company who has now forked DHIS2 and are calling it something entirely different, for their own reasons. In other countries, DHIS2 has been branded differently, according to their own

Re: [Dhis2-users] From 'District' to 'Decentralized' and 'Software' to 'System'

2013-05-02 Thread Knut Staring
There is indeed a long history, as Jason points out, and the district focus took its inspiration from the WHO Alma Ata Declaration from 1978 and its focus on Primary Health Care and Health For All http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Ata_Declaration Furthermore, the very first versions of DHIS came

Re: [Dhis2-users] From 'District' to 'Decentralized' and 'Software' to 'System'

2013-05-02 Thread Lars Kristian Roland
As an example of an abbreviation that has changed meaning, I would mention GSM, which I believe first meant Group Speciale Mobile (excuse my french) and later Global System for Mobile communication. I would support Prosper's observation that District may not cover the distributed system that

Re: [Dhis2-users] From 'District' to 'Decentralized' and 'Software' to 'System'

2013-05-02 Thread Bob Jolliffe
Interesting set of points raised by all. Personally I think the rationale behind the district focus of the system, creating tight feedback loops for district managers to be able to act locally is as important now as it ever was. Even though the challenge of creating and sustaining a culture of

Re: [Dhis2-users] From 'District' to 'Decentralized' and 'Software' to 'System'

2013-05-02 Thread Bob Jolliffe
Using 'Software' in the name of a piece of software is quite unusual. In fact I can't think of other examples. It would be like the thing I drive being branded an Opel Car :-) 'System' is more common, though agree with Jason and Arthur that there is a big difference between the software system

Re: [Dhis2-users] From 'District' to 'Decentralized' and 'Software' to 'System'

2013-05-02 Thread David Muturi
This is true, as we face the technology challenges of system performance and responsiveness to end users, I think DHIS is now brand and from a marketing point of view renaming it to decentralized health Information system will retain its acronym as DHIS and remove the end users view that is a

Re: [Dhis2-users] From 'District' to 'Decentralized' and 'Software' to 'System'

2013-05-02 Thread Arunima s mukherjee
having 'system' definitely makes more sense. after all even to run dhis (in any deployment) the software in itself doesn't do much, it is the system and processes around the dhis which make it functional. as they say... Aeroplanes do not fly, airlines do Similarly, softwares do not achieve much,

Re: [Dhis2-users] [Dhis2-devs] Server specifications

2013-05-02 Thread Orvalho Augusto
OK! We must start from somewhere. Thank you! I am not sure about thes calculations. And this is considering that we want to guarantee that Mr PG runs the query with all data on RAM. That to happen one needs special tunes for PG. As a simple rule to guide us it is fine. And we need more