Hello Javi, That’s a brilliant idea!
I have been working for telco and fintech for years, but the COVID situation triggered some profound questions such as “is there a way I could help?”. Perhaps joining your initiative may help me answer that question 😊 Count me in! Cheers, Giovanni From: Javi Roman <jroman.espi...@gmail.com> Date: Thursday, 29 April 2021 at 07:45 To: dev@community.apache.org <dev@community.apache.org> Subject: ASF and Healthcare initiative Hi community! I would like to share with you an idea that I am thinking about lately. The idea is to create a project around Healthcare and ASF projects: As you know, the world of health and big data are increasingly related, with international initiatives to take advantage of massive data processing in the health sector. This project/initiative could be a site (healthcare.apache.org and a mailing list healthc...@apache.org). The site would be an information site about: 1. ASF projects directly related with healthcare such as ctakes.apache.org, uima.apache.org ASF projects with components useful for the health sector: opennlp.apache.org, solr.apache.org, nifi.apache.org (HL7 processors family), beam.apache.org (Google Cloud Healthcare HL7v2 API) and so forth. 2. References architectures for healthcare sector (based on ASF projects). 3. Entry point for all content related to ASF and Healthcare (past presentations about CTakes in the ApacheCon @Home 2020). Focusing attention on the health sector, it would be an opportunity to give visibility to the ASF projects and how open source and Apache Way can help in something as universal as health (especially at the time when we are living on world alert). Other benefits, from my point of view, would be: 1. Attract new projects in the Incubator, there are many open source projects related to health. 2. Get new sponsors and donations (even from the public sector). 3. Lead a global movement towards something as relevant as improving global health using technology as openly as possible. What do you think? I know this is not a new software project, it is an initiative (something similar to i...@apache.org, or training.apache.org). -- Javi Roman Twitter: @javiromanrh GitHub: github.com/javiroman Linkedin: es.linkedin.com/in/javiroman Big Data Blog: dataintensive.info
