Hi Robert, I hope all is well with you and your family. As I have mentioned both publicly and privately I am finding more and more people telling me that care2x was a great project with more functionality than other open source HIS but that it is no longer maintained and basically dead. My point in starting this thread was to try and show that this was not the case, however the lack of reaction seemed to show the opposite. Indeed I sent many emails to the list earlier in the year when I was trying to work on stabilising the code to work with current PHP versions but again got very little response.
As you know all code suffers from bit rot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot) and care2x has some real issues in this area. Anybody who doubts this should try setting error_reporting to -1 and viewing the results with any version of PHP greater than 5.2. All the active versions of care2x I have seen suffer from this. I appreciate just how busy you are and how much work you have already put into care2x. To fix the issues requires a concerted effort by a group of people working together, not just by a few individuals. However from private email exchanges I have had recently it seems there is a chicken and egg situation. People are reluctant to give their time if they do not believe that the project has a future. I agree with you that there are plenty of areas non-programmers can help. Especially the web site. It would be great if someone with some design ability were to offer to update the web site. It is the primary means by which people get their info about the project and having the main page say that the last update was nearly 4 years ago does not look good :) I think a revitalised web site is prerequisite for getting developers involved. Also when development work gets discussed it would be much better to discuss it here and so people know what is happening and it encourages others to join in. As the medfloss site I linked to shows, there is real interest in care2x and if we could get a group of people working together we can really make this happen. Tim On 2 October 2014 10:15, Robert Meggle <robert.meg...@care2x.org> wrote: > HiHo Tim, > > as the man who got all the support@care2x mails I can briefly confirm that > there is a huge market on care2x. Most of the questions receiving me are > always the same: > > questions about > -> "best practice", what OS should be used > -> language support - how to add languages what can be downloaded by > sf.net > -> etc. > > Approx. 2 times per week.... always the same questions. > > Most of them are not really that big deal to post it here on the developers > list, can be answered within minutes or just a link to existing howtos and it > is been done. > > Care2x is what it is, a "non profit project". You know that Gjergj, you and > me working on a stable 2.7 release but sadly I do not have enough time to > give the time what the project will need... > > Think also about the still rising questions about DICOM viewer. Almost been > answered via PM or CC, you also getting it. > > There are some still pending other - non development - tasks where everybody > could support. Especially the above mentioned language files are almost not > complete or not correct translated. There is no > programming skills been needed, just native speaker. > > Also if there are some contributions about to maintain the wiki or website. > Also there is no development skills been needed. So there is quite a lot of > work. :) > > Last but not least, there are some view "core" developer who spending their > free time to this project. I would not really point these fingers to exactly > those people - there could be the risk to demotivate and loose it as well. > > If anyone feels to be ready to contribute: > https://www.devex.com/news/how-to-ace-your-application-to-the-healthcare-innovation-award-83803 > > Go for it. We will give background support as best we can. But there is - out > of my point of view - no time what it would need that I could successfully > contribute for it. > > Robert > > > > > > Am Donnerstag, den 02.10.2014, 09:38 +0100 schrieb t...@weberpafrica.com: >> Interesting to see this http://www.medfloss.org/node/271. It shows >> that despite the project appearing to be dead there is a lot of >> interest from outside of the project if only the patient could be >> resuscitated :-) >> >> Tim >> >> On 24 September 2014 13:43, t...@weberpafrica.com <t...@weberpafrica.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi Alejandro, I don't think it is a lack of people who "can tune" it >> > so much as a lack of developers with the time and inclination to do >> > so. This is why I was asking for volunteers :-) >> > >> > Tim >> > >> > On 23 September 2014 22:29, Alejandro de Garate >> > <alejandro_degar...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>>Hi Alejandro, >> >>> >> >>>I agree with most of your email, but the "tuning" required is no small >> >>>job and getting bigger all the time. This is why I am saying a >> >>>decision needs to be taken whether the project wants to continue. >> >>> >> >>>Are you volunteering to help with the work? >> >>>Tim >> >> >> >> I don't know what is the level of usability of care2x, but... >> >> >> >> If none of developers "can tune" care2x to make it work... >> >> What can I do ? >> >> >> >> --- >> >> Alejandro >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer >> >> Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports >> >> Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? 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