On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Martin WHEELER wrote: > Have you thought of approaching the World Health Organisation (WHO) for > sponsorship and/or project sanctioning or other indirect forms of > support? Thanks for the hint. It is a good idea to ask somebody for sponsorship. Sometimes I wonder if I could/should work full time for Debian-Med but I have to earn some money in any way (and need some bandwidth). Any contacts or links to ask for Sponsorship?
> They have provided a great deal of support over the years for the > production and dissemination of the Epi-Info project (I used to teach > medical staff how to use it ten years or more ago) -- but although the > software itself is free, Do we talk about free of charge or do we talk about fitting the DFSG (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines)? > the source code appears to be jealously guarded > by those who provide the M$ disk images, and so I've never seen a Un*x > version around (although I believe one exists). Free means the source code is Open and users are allowed to change it ... In this case I see good chances for a UNIX port. > It is certainly a major piece of software which should be incorporated > into any Free Med project -- the sticking point at the moment is access > to the source code. But as WHO are the owners (if I understand > correctly), this should not be an insurmountable problem; even tho' most > leads do seem to point to CDC and others in Georgia. Could you perhaps ask for it if you know some people? I would be glad to include it into Debian, especially people in our institute are using it (not under Linux :-(). > (Any Epi-Info users in this group?) I doubt that personally - but why not. > And on a totally unrelated topic, has anyone come up with a GPLed > library of anatomical drawings / diagrams for teaching use, do you know? Sorry, no. But if there is one free resource in this feeld it would be a target for packaging. Many thanks for your hints Andreas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
