FrontlineSMS relies on the support of our growing band of dedicated volunteers and interns, who provide heroic amounts of support to help us keep things running successfully. This page is focused on acknowledging these FrontlineSMS Heroes for the great work they do!

Juliana

Juliana Bedoya Carmona, Monitoring and EvaluationJuliana Bedoya Carmona is currently a candidate for a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is her studies on international organizations and international public management. Before coming to Fletcher Juliana worked on education and youth policy issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Juliana is currently working as part of a team from the Fletcher school who are helping to design a monitoring and evaluation methodology aimed at monitoring the impact of FrontlineSMS software.

Todd

Todd Diemer, Graphic Designer Todd works for Fitbit in San Francisco and has over 7 years of user research and design experience. His career path began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa, conducting community assessments and teaching students how to create multimedia to support and promote community projects. Todd enjoys hearing about new ways that technology can work-with and support people in developing regions. Todd is assisting the team as a graphic designer.

Aleksei

Aleksei Ivanov, Software Testing and TranslationAleksei has a degree in Computer Science from Moscow State Technical University (MSTU). He specialises in computing machinery, systems, complexes and networks. He has been a great help for FrontlineSMS over the last year and a half, providing assistance with software testing and quality assurance, full FrontlineSMS localisation into Russian and Ukrainian languages, and community consulting.

Mathias

Mathias Lin,Android DevelopmentMathias is founder and managing director at Meta Healthcare – a Hong Kong based social enterprise with a focus on healthcare management and communication. Meta Healthcare develop mobile healthcare IT solutions to help healthcare providers streamline their workflow, and serve their patients more efficiently. It’s target market is divided into two segments: developed countries (commercial) and developing countries (non-profit). Mathias is currently working on a port of FrontlineSMS for the Google Android platform.

Domingo

Domingo Liotta, Community Forum SupportDomingo teaches Medical Informatics and Physiology at the University of Morón, Buenos Aires in Argentina. He has managed a Stress Exercise Laboratory, working as a Clinical Researcher and Assisting Physician for more than 10 years. Currently, Domingo is working to expand the implementation of e-health and m-health use in medical education and telemedicine applications. Domingo helps provide user support on our Community Forum, and he regularly promotes FrontlineSMS to new contacts in Argentina, too!

Tom

Tom Marentette, Community Forum SupportTom works at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana and has over 15 years of experience in Information and Communications Technologies. His background includes a degree in Telecommunications from Eastern Michigan University, with core strengths in data networking and enterprise ICT project management. He is passionate about mobile technology and its impact for social good. Tom is assisting the team with support on our Community Forum.

Enormous thanks is also owed to those who have helped us in the past:

Developers

Aleksei Ivanov \o/ Brian Muita \o/ Okal Otieno \o/ Gonçalo Silva \o/ James Tregaskis \o/ Martijn Verburg \o/ Olivier Vernin

Version 2 Volunteer translators

Tsubasa Enomoto – Japanese

Mireille Raad – Arabic

Guy Manasse – French

Sophia Chavanel – French

Pascal Wever – German

Elka Bethke – German

Hadi Purwanto – Indonesia

Hanny Kusumawati – Indonesia

Frederika Ngana – Indonesia

Katsuhito Takeuchi - Japanese

Ssembajjwe Geoffrey – Luganda

Jing Li – Mandarin

Guilherme Motto - Portugese

Rodrigo Cursino - Portugese

Monica Ugalde – Spanish

Alejandro Maze – Spanish

Shaheesha Hussainiah – Spanish

Rathina Kumar Ponnusamy – Tamil

Galeel Bhasha Satthar – Tamil

Sanjana Bayya – Telugu

Aditya Bandikallu – Telugu

David Faunt – Tok-pin

Solon Aguiar – Portugese

Guilherme Flores da Cunha da Motta - Portuguese

Nicholas Pufal - Portuguese

Luiza Nunes - Portuguese

Luiza Figueiredo Pagliari - Portuguese

Faris Mohammed - Portuguese

Past FrontlineSMS Heroes

Barbara Arese Lucini (Software Support Assistant) \o/ Lisa La Rochelle (Community Project Assistant) \o/ Robin Flanagan (Survey data analysis) \o/ Shirley Hu (Project Assistant Intern) \o/ Nsonje Siame (Community Project Intern) \o/ Adam White (Intern) \o/, Matthias Armbruster, Data Analysis \o/, Peter Westman (FrontlineSMS: Radio Project Assistant) \o/, Molly Redding (Survey Analysis & Database) \o/, Kavita Rajah (Community Project Assistant) \o/, Stefania Perna (Community Project Assistant) \o/, Kike Oyenuyu (Project Assistant, Intern) \o/, Shuvam Dutta (Monitoring and Evaluation) \o/, Browyn Cooke (Monitoring and Evaluation) \o/, Matthias Armbruster (Data Analysis) \o/, Amanda Meng (Monitoring and Evaluation) \o/

See photos of our Heroes on our Flickr page.