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We built the SMS & USSD connectivity for last week's launch in Kenya with Airtel [1] using http://github.com/praekelt/vumi. Happy to answer any questions about this, USSD isn't used as much and as such largely unknown outside of the majority world.

[1]: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/25/wikimedia-foundatio...


We being Praekelt Foundation [1].

[1]: http://www.praekeltfoundation.org


fwiw, it's built on Vumi which is Open Source http://github.com/praekelt/vumi. Feel free to join us in #vumi on Free for any questions.


s/Free/Freenode/


Making of the hyper wall: http://vimeo.com/48285842


It does on secondary indexes http://wiki.basho.com/Secondary-Indexes.html


I should mention that 2I performance may be a little slow, depending on what kind of indices and queries you need. It's not hard to try it out and benchmark, though.


Just to confirm this, at work (http://github.com/praekelt & http://praekeltfoundation.org) this exactly the problem we are up against in Africa.


2 - wasn't intentional, what wordings exude that attitude in your opinion?


I went back to find specific things for you and couldn't. The idea of "tricky" "test" is off putting. Making me jump through hoops just for the "honor" of being a possible candidate.

OTOH, I could have just been a bad mood that day.


not necessarily, but would be nice.


true, blame Python :)


Yeah, truth in that. I'm needing to write a couple more like this, this is the first one. Next one will be an job description for a DB guy with interest in databases in the broadest sense. Not sure how to go about that one yet.

I like the infographic idea, any other suggestions?


    select *
    from job_candidates
    where interest > 0
    order by interest desc


I am sure eitally was being sarcastic.

Also, why are you attempting to recruit people who are interested in a subject "in the broadest sense", as opposed to people who live and breath the damn thing?

Recruiting people of marginal interest and passing familiarity sounds like a recipe for mediocrity, imo.


Maybe my bad choice of words. In the "broadest sense" I meant that we're looking for a DB person who's interested in both relational DBs as well as the complete other side of the spectrum.

Still, I think a tongue in cheek infographic could be pretty cool as a job description. True, maybe not so much for databases.


Yep, but the infographic idea does sound fun. It might make more sense as a resume for a creative than a job posting, though.


http://blog.laptopmag.com/first-look-olpc-xo-generation-20 -- looks familiar? Thought so.


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