Dear Stephen,

> It looks like the most sensible thing for me to do is to prepare one tarball 
> of all of our open source tools, and to make sure that that is properly 
> versioned.
> The intention is to re-fit each of the risk scores annually to the latest 
> data from the QResearch database (http://qresearch.org), (next release 
> Jan/Feb 2011).

Makes total sense.

> We are not able yet to release the UK Postcode to Townsend deprivation map, 
> as there are IP issues involved.  E.g. the QRISK2-2010 score, as implemented 
> on http://qintervention.org and within our commercial SDK, rely upon this to 
> factor deprivation into the score.   We are currently in negotiations to 
> publish the map under a creative commons licence, though that may take some 
> time.

It may be an option to leave out qintervention of to leave
out the problematic dataset -- which eager users may want to
obtain separately by other (legal) means and have the tools
working when the data is in place.

> PS The Q stands for "from QResearch", where the Q stands for "enquiry, or 
> query/curiosity driven", IIRC.

I was wondering because its meaning might inform on choosing
a fitting package name.

Thanks for your great work !

Karsten Hilbert, MD
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