Thanks for the welcome, Bhaskar, and also the warm welcome (in every
sense of the word) I've received from many others.
Also, thank you for creating this list. The list software at
minoru-development.com was and is broken- you took the right step to
keep this incredible community conversation going.
I have no intention of fixing the "old list." Having two lists is
confusing and creates the appearance of division where none exists.
Accordingly, I'll be closing down the openhealth mailing list on the
minoru site in about a week. For those who have not already joined the
Yahoo list, please do so now. There is no need to unsubscribe from the
minoru list, as it will be deleted. You will not be transfered to Yahoo
unless you indicate that you want this by joining at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ .
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/>
As for the "trademark" issue, my apologies to the group for forgetting
"Why I'm here." Openhealth is the name of a conversation and a
community. I'll work to be more consistent about this.
-Brian
Bhaskar, KS wrote:
First, I would like to welcome Brian back to the community. Having met
him only once, and never having collaborated with him, as a newcomer to
the open source healthcare community, I don't know him as well as I
perhaps should. But it is always good to have an early active member in
a field return to active participation. So, welcome back!
I am also very encouraged by the discussion about resurrecting OSHCA. I
think it was an important organization. [I do wonder, however, given
the subtle changes in language over the last few years, whether FOSSHCA
or FLOSSHCA might not be better names to use today...]
I was the one that originally created the openhealth mailing list on
Yahoogroups, and my "light a candle vs. curse the darkness" motivation
for doing it is discussed in my post (copied below) announcing the list.
In my role as moderator, I see myself as serving the wishes of the free
and open source software for healthcare community. One suggestion I
would make, however, is simply to leave the list at Yahoogroups. Yes,
we can create our own list on our own server, but then we would be
responsible for things like the list below for a server that will sit on
the Internet:
1. Backups.
2. Indexing and searching.
3. Anti-virus and spam filtering.
4. Security, including keeping up to date with patches.
5. Network access, bandwidth, data center operations.
I recently had an opportunity to observe the need to respond to a server
that was found to have the t0rn root kit installed on it, and it was
very disruptive on the lives of those who managed it.
Yahoogroups does all of this for us, and the price is some advertising
appended to each message (and if you opt for text messages rather than
HTML messages, the advertising is at the bottom and quite innocuous).
All the group moderators have to do is to approve requests to join the
group.
We already have several moderators from the community who are members of
the group, and there is redundancy should I, or any of the other
moderators, have something untoward happen to us and be unable to serve.
I am also happy to accept others who would like to volunteer to serve
the community as moderator.
My two bits' worth: let us focus on building the new OSHCA / FOSSHCA /
FLOSSHCA community, web page, portal, etc., and leave the mailing list
where it is.
Regards
-- Bhaskar
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> Background / motivation: A couple of months ago, as a result of an
> e-mail server consolidation following a corporate acquisition, my e-mail
> address changed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This
> of course meant that I could not post to the openhealth list, since
> posting is restricted to members. I have tried a couple of times to
> subscribe with my new e-mail address, but my attempts went into the bit
> bucket. This has meant that although I can read posts - e-mail sent to
> the old address is forwarded to the new one - I cannot post and
> participate in discussions.
>
> Under the theory that it is better to light a candle than to curse the
> darkness, I have created a mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Yahoo Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) <http://groups.yahoo.com%29>
is a robust place for mailing
> lists and electronic communities, including a file repository,
> searchable web-accessible message archive, online chat, etc.
>
> If you would like to join, please send me e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> or [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I will send you an invitation from Yahoo
> Groups. If you click on a link in that e-mail invitation, or reply to
> the e-mail, you will be subscribed to the group. Alternatively, go to
> http://groups.yahoo.com and search for openhealth. Ask to join the
> group, and I will get a message asking to approve your application to
> join. In an attempt to keep e-mail harvesters off the list, I have
> created the group requiring administrator approval to join. However, I
> will otherwise approve all requests to join.
>
> An e-mail address suffices to get e-mail posts from the distribution
> list. A Yahoo id is required for access to the online features.
>
> Other volunteers to help administer the list are sought. Thank you very
> much.
>
> -- Bhaskar
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