FrontlineSMS allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal.

May 2009 Blog Posts (5)

Using FrontlineSMS to Send in Hindi

Hi FrontlineSMS Community!

FrontlineSMS now supports Hindi, but when you use the Hindi that is installed on your computer (Computer Panel > Regional and Language Options > Hindi), you need to learn a whole new keyboard map to type. You can find the map just by doing a google search, and it looks something like: http://tinyurl.com/hindi-keyboard-map

For example, to write "pooja" in Hindi, you would have to press the keys "h-t-p-e."

Learning this whole new… Continue

Added by Pooja Upadhyaya on May 31, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

Khmer language support: Translation 100% completed

Hi Ken,

Happy to share with you this good news - the Khmer language support is 100% completed.

Please find the attached Khmer language file for your next step.

Hoping this Khmer language support will be included in the next release of FrontlineSMS :)

Anyway, just an update - I met with Rob few days ago in Phnom Penh. It was a nice meet-up with nice talk and interesting discussion. So, we are hoping to start working together in the future. He also lent me his GSM… Continue

Added by Vantharith OUM on May 30, 2009 at 1:02pm — 3 Comments

How FrontlineSMS will help domestic violence victims in the USA.

I only recently became involved with FrontlineSMS as an addition to a national project my company, OpenEMR HQ, is doing with a small African country. But, since discovering the software, I've been busily thinking of good ways it could be put to use by organizations in my own community and I've come up with a few I believe are viable. Today, I want to share one of those ideas and how we're going to use FrontlineSMS as a tool to help combat violence against… Continue

Added by Anthony Papillion on May 10, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

AMIS-CAMEROON: A NOBLE MISSION

Our mission at AMIS-CAMEROON is to inform and connect actors with capacity and needs. We believe that an informed community would make wise decisions based on their knowledge of where to sell and where to buy.

The principal objective of AMIS-CAMEROON is to connect farmers directly to available markets and consumers via instant SMS messaging. Farmers and consumers shall receive information relating to their expressed needs. AMIS-CAMEROON shall get information from public… Continue

Added by Tambe Harry Agbor on May 7, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Khmer language support: Translation ongoing...

Hi all,

This is Vantharith from Cambodia.

I am a Cambodian, living in the capital of Phnom Penh.

I, by chance, happened to know about FrontlineSMS when I was reading some blogs of Singaporean BarCampers. I was then re-directed to FrontlineSMS website.

After reading and learning more about FrontlineSMS, I also read further on other projects of Kiwanja.net.

I'm so impressed by all the projects and would like to see future/possible adaptation or application in… Continue

Added by Vantharith OUM on May 4, 2009 at 11:22am — 6 Comments