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I do absolutly not mind the name and status of Open Source organizations, as long as they are producing useful services. I see indeed the need of a few meeting points about Open Source activities in healthcare. Open means Open, i.e. not necessarily one unique world organization, if that is too difficult manage. Several good mailing lists already exist, but I feel we need to work on more documentation on the web, in a better structured and interlinked way. I see the need of coordination by means of webpages, one for each relevant topic, maybe about 36 main topics. This must include openess for more than one point of view, more than one technology, etc ...... of course with the hope to achieve convergences when possible, soon or later. The question is to find teams of 3 to 5 coordinators motivated for every topic. The job would be to introduce more structure in the tracks we can find today in various archives of mailing lists, s well to produce summaries and overviews. Moreover if they cannot agree why not more than one team on the same topic ? The very basic common issue would be to agree on the inventory of relevant issues. This according to my proposal at the OSHCA-2003 in Geneva: http://www.crisnet.be/Presentations/OSHCA-2003/Index-Roadmap-Components.html , and particularly the principles of the page: http://www.crisnet.be/Presentations/OSHCA-2003/Component-Table.html Of course the choices about UML models and about technologies are here also rows in the main table of components. We need also personal contacts from time to time, at least 1 or 2 times a year. If we can agree on a date end 2004, I guess we will find a dozen interested persons in Europe. Belgium is at a central location in Europe and I have not difficult to book a room for 3 days somewhere in an university or a hospital, for up to about 20 persons. I see the program of such a working meeting as a review of the state of the art and dicussions around a list of issues, one at a time. And not giving the floor to speakers talking one hour about their own project from A to Z , nor to the the promotors of one particular technologies. At the end the essential goals are collaboration and interoperability, in order to solve common problems. Etienne Saliez http://www.crisnet.be/index-uk.html tel ++ 32 26541759 Etienne Saliez Tim Cook wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developersOn Mon, 2004-02-23 at 17:40, Dr Molly Cheah wrote:You misunderstood. OSHCA.Org will be transferred once incorporation completes, which may be any day now according to typical time-lines. Joseph Dal Molin gave a recent update to that effect. |
