Mapping to Logistics..

Ola Amigo!!

It feels good…. when you come back to your good habit after long time. Yes, the good habit of writing a blog after every week’s meeting. Sorry, Dhairya Pujara we are lagging in our posts. But we will catch up.

No news is always good news. Well no one got to know about the updates of our project, does not mean that we got knocked out of the door. We are still there, surviving the strong winds with the help of our supporters. Huge round of applause for the Dean of College of Computing and Informatics,  Mr. David Fenske for his strong support.  He is officially on-board for this project, being a strong inspiration which have a huge meaning for us. The day we met him, he said “I am not surprised that you won, In fact I am happy that you won.”, The time we understood the meaning we felt on the top of the world. Thank you Dean for that encouraging statement, it means a lot.

Getting to the technical details, the project is on smooth sailing with some ups and downs. We discussed about the details of what kind of tables we need to have in our databases. What kind of information is important to be stored in our databases and how we can use that information to do future analysis? Getting ready to move our database to Microsoft Azure is another next step we are getting ready for.

The meeting started with a question, What if there is no internet for your application for two weeks. Every time we go to meeting we feel like we are the boss, and then in every meeting Dhairya put a new challenge in front of us and then we are like “I am not sure if we can do that”. Well discussing the logistics of our project, and trying to put our foot in someone else’s shoe is another job we are doing right now. We are trying to figure out what kind of things can become a limited resource in Mozambique, Africa. And trust me, that is not an easy job. Being in Philadelphia and assuming not to have internet is like being in a pool and thinking about a desert.

But we are getting there, we will face it, crack it and will get through it.