Elizabeth Dodd wrote: >David Guest was once collating promises of $1000 for something...did we ever >spend those promises? > > The Argus Challenge of November 2004 aimed to raised $10,000 to develop an open source version of Argus that was not tied to HeSA PKI certificates. There were a number of difficulties in getting access to recent source code and defining exactly what would constitute the delivered product. However, after a Herculean effort by Syan Tan an older version of the code was hacked. It then became clear that porting it to python was possible and the Argus Challenge slipped into abeyance.
The python version of Argus, wagtail, incorporated GPG as well as PKI of various flavours. This work was again mainly done by Syan but also by Tony Lembke, Ian Haywood and Horst Herb. You can download it from subversion on this site. I think the current status of the code is that it is functional at a rudimentary level but requires a lot more work to make it "commercial" grade. Apart from doing that it needs to interface to Medical Objects web services framework. I think either of these two tasks would be suitable for contributions from students. Is money the answer to make it happen? Possibly but if we monetarise it, I think we need to pay a few grand to Syan for starters. Hmm, that gives me an idea. I'll be right back. David -- "UFW. Deb does linux." SIP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NodePhone +61 7 31290168
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