Dear Hardhats,
Change of plans. For today's call, I will be announcing the creation of
WorldVistA's Education Team, explaining its mission, and discussing one
of its top priorities: the planning and execution of our next VistA
Community Meeting, coming soon.
Yours truly,
Rick Marshall
CTO,
Dear Hardhats,
We are changing DNS servers for worldvista.org. You are perceiving the
interval when the network is being updated with the new values, and is
temporarily using the much older ones. It should revert to our plone
site shortly.
Yours truly,
Rick
Nancy Anthracite wrote:
Did
Dear Hardhats,
Based on a question I received, we need to make a clarification about
the shift from the release-based model of VistA distribution.
In the past, all WorldVistA's development work went into periodic
releases of entire VistA images, including globals and routines, that
testers
already has, and so would be a natural part of WorldVistA's
approach starting this year. Indeed, WorldVistA hopes to return to the
older VA standard of regular maintenance releases.
Yours truly,
Rick
Greg Woodhouse wrote:
--- Frederick D. S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However
Dear Michael,
FileMan version 22 was originally suppsed to include extensible data
types, including typing of functions, which would have taken us halfway
to real methods. There was discussion of sub- and super-types, but we
were going to wait to decide whether to include it in 22 or wait
Dear Cameron,
We should talk about this. My initial impulse has been the same as Dr.
Z's, to come up with a generalized system we can use beyond the VA.
Yours truly,
Rick
Cameron Schlehuber wrote:
The STATION NUMBER field should be kept as is for VA and be null for non-VA
sites. There is
Dear Nancy,
Thanks for the clarification. I ran into the problem this morning while
trying to download patches for VistA-Office EHR. Like Larry, I thought
it was just me.
Yours truly,
Rick
LD 'Gus' Landis wrote:
Nancy,
Good... I thought it was me... Now for some more last minute
Dear Greg,
It is busy. We have had the same email quiet among the WorldVistA
executive team lately because everyone's busy working. The quiet may be
spilling over. :)
Yours truly,
Rick
Greg Woodhouse wrote:
Just wondering.
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Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Without the
Dear Matthew,
The difference between a relational database and a hierarchical one (or,
for that matter, a polymorphic one like FileMan) has to do with how it
models the world.
All databases exist to record an abstract model of pieces of the world.
Databases are usually structured as files
Dear Greg,
You have put your finger on my point about MUMPS, the relational model,
the hierarchical model, and so on--they are just the raw materials.
They shape the way we solve the problems we face, but they do not
usually prevent us from solving problems. If I am an architectural
Dear Cameron,
This is why I have taken lately to reminding people that VistA is not
written in MUMPS. VistA (well, DHCP anyway) is written in Standard
MUMPS. The difference, as you know, is the heart of VistA's
portability, and therefore sustainability.
Yours truly,
Rick
Cameron
Dear Hardhats,
Thursday, May 12th to Sunday, May 15th, WorldVistA is holding a small
technical meeting to verify, package, and release OpenVistA version 4.
Since this will be a technical meeting, it will not make a good venue
for those seeking an introduction to VistA, or looking for installs on
Dear friends,
On next week's call, we will discuss:
1) plans for the Seattle RD meeting May 12th-15th,
2) OpenVistA version 4, which will be released at the end of that
meeting,
3) the new license for OpenVistA,
4) software contributions from community members, including individuals
and
Dear Steven,
It is in the subtle points he makes that I agree most.
For example, he is not arguing that we should never clean up code,
rather that we should lower our expectations of good things to come and
raise our expectation of problems.
For example, while I worked on TaskMan I probably
to find common problems useful for
incorporation into
troubleshooting guides.
IRMS to log problems at their local facility.
Simply put, NOIS is a logbook of requests for service.
Frederick D. S. Marshall wrote
Dear fellow Hardhats,
Chris Richardson tells me prices for plane tickets to the Boston meeting
go up $50.00 tomorrow, so today is a good day to get tickets. I thought
I would pass on the advice.
Also, many folks who have verbally confirmed they are coming to Boston
have not yet registered.
in future releases
are corrected.
Documentation to find common problems useful for incorporation into
troubleshooting guides.
IRMS to log problems at their local facility.
Simply put, NOIS is a logbook of requests for service.
Frederick D. S. Marshall wrote:
Dear friends,
I have spent
Dear friends,
I have spent the weekend configuring and testing NOIS on OpenForum. We
are now ready to begin accepting NOIS calls about Kernel, File Manager,
and other VistA Infrastructure packages.
Sincerely yours,
Rick Marshall
President, WorldVistA
Dear Nancy,
To address your original question, I agree with your reasoning about the
need for a revived MDC in some form. I will schedule an MDC Revival
session at the Boston meeting to discuss how best to proceed. We can
treat it as a brainstorming jam session in which we first list what
Dear friends,
I have opened the call, and Claudine and Tom are on the call with me.
Join in if you like.
Yours truly,
Rick
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 06:31, Maury Pepper wrote:
Nothing has been scheduled. Today would be for a project or special topic,
but as far as I know, no one has requested
Dear Kevin,
We are not in a catch-22.
The Object-Oriented Language subcommittee (SC16) of the MDC spent many
years examining the state of the art in OO languages and databases to
determine how MUMPS should be upgraded with OO features. We know how to
do this, now, and we know why we cannot
Dear friends,
Nancy's question about how best to license the Pediatrics work applies
equally well to OpenVistA as a whole. We know we need some kind of
open-source license for it--after all, the CHCS experience helped teach
us all what can happen to unprotected software--but WorldVistA has not
Dear Hardhats,
I am looking for network guidance for a friend. He is purchasing five
Dell laptops to be used as a mobile VistA demonstration. One would be a
VistA server, the other four would be workstations running CPRS Chart.
The goal is to set them up with some kind of wireless network that
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