James,
Here is a quick review of how past sponsorship of past events came about:
Meeting 1 - Rome - Bud Bruegger, one of the founders of OSHCA, was
working on an open source lab project for a joint FAO/IAEA initiative.
Bud's clients provided meeting space and refreshments....attendees
covered their own expenses.
Meeting 2 - London - Colin Smith who at the time was with the UK NHS
Information Authority invited me to brief the CEO and executive team on
the subject of open source in health....during the discussion of next
steps, sponsorship of the next OSHCA meeting was adopted
Meeting 3 - UCLA Los Angeles - Mike McCoy attended the London meeting,
someone mentioned that Mike was interested in hosting a meeting, I
approached Mike at the meeting and asked if he would commit to hosting
which he did
Meeting 4 - Geneva - Dr. Osmand Ratib of UCLA invited Dr. Antoine
Geissbuhler from the Univ. Hosp. of Geneva to the LA meeting. Antoine
was considering hosting the next meeting and confirmed after attending
UCLA's OSHCA event.
As for 2006, what I think is realistic is a "seed meeting". One
possibility that comes to mind is the Mednet meeting in Toronto in
October. I live in Toronto and know have collaborated with local
organizers before.....will drop them a line and see if they might be
interested in having an "OSHCA open source workshop".
Joseph
James Busser wrote:
On Mar 18, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
> the critical success factors
> for successful OSHCA meetings so far have been:
>
> - a local sponsor/champion eg. Mike McCoy and Colin Smith (Los Angles
> and London)
> - champion(s) and well connected organizing committee in OSCHA
Anyone have contacts/ideas for potential sponsor/champions in Brisbane?
To what can we credit the past sponsorship/championing of Mike McCoy
and Colin Smith?
Maybe if we understand that, it will help to sustain & reproduce it.
