Hi all, right at the very early stages of the project, it has become clear that the main care2x releases will be more or less "generic". The actual versions working in hospitals will be adapted and specialized and become more or less different from other versions in other hospitals. They are not forks because a fork has a "political" component in it. They are just the correct use of the open-source's character of easy adaptability. Let me borrow Mauri's term of "parallel modules". If all these are shared openly, each group might benefit from others, not necessarily being able to use the whole version but parts of it.
One good example for the above is the version shared by the Italian Olympic commitee. This version is shared and available but it cannot be taken as a whole and use it in another hospital without additional modifications. Regards, Elpidio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello All, > >I have been on this list since 2002 and many of the active ones have left and >this >project needs new blood and good software developers. Some have made their own >versions and I have not heard much about them. There are also many spanish >speaking developers, who probably have done a lot but I cannot understand >their >communicatin. Care2x.de is active good product but I am not sure if they are >willing to >share their work freely. I believe that a lot of work has to be done before >original Care2x >can meet the standards in USA or Canada. >The requirements are very different in different areas. When we started to >develop our >East-African version we found that we could not use many components of the >orignal >version and there were many modules that were crucial for us but were not in >Care2x. > >I would like the idea that Care2x would have different parallel modules, which >the user >could select depending on his requirements just like you can select which >applications >you choose when you install Linux. > >But I hope that the stong developing communities in USA and Canada would bring >new >blood to this project and not start to do completely new software. Our branch >is going to >get some developers from both of those countries. I think we all would >benefit from >good quality open source and free software both in developed and developing >countries. > >Mauri Niemi, >Finnish doctor working in Tanzania > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list Care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
