On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:22:27PM +0100, Hilmar Berger wrote: >>> I would emphasize the long-time goals more than what GNUmed can do today. >> People don't give a s*t what GNUmed wants to become >> eventually. > I tend to disagree. I speak from experience in talking with people.
> As I already pointed out, GNUmed can't be everything > to everyone. True. > So what is GNUmed ? A collection of medical plugins ? A > framework for developing health care applications for doctors ? > What are you trying to achieve ? > I really doubt that you will attract anyone without telling him what GNUmed > is supposed to be (project vision). If you suggest putting a clearly labelled mission statement into the brochure then that might make sense, yes. >> The only interest is in whether they can sell it >> to other people today. > Ah, wait. Who is that brochure for ? Doctors ? Software companies ? > Potential developers ? > The message for every of the above will be different. Currently we'll mostly need a flyer for potential users. > > > You should say that GNUmed one day is planned to be a > > > complete EMR with possibe integration of other software > > > (billing etc.). > I agree that we will have to tell what parts are ready. Still, IMHO the > vision is the most important part of the message. Not so. You are right that we should put into the flyer what the goal/vision IS. But it isn't the *most important* part. Not from what real people in meatspace have asked of GNUmed as of today. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
