On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Elizabeth Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > OK. Liz, what sort of projects do you have in mind
> > > jon
> >
> > Pretty simple ( but BIG)
> > We have a dream of a Linux based FOSS medical desktop program
>
> can you decode FOSS, pls

Free and Open Source Software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS


> - would this be intended as an alternative to 
> Medical Director?
That is an example, but of course our dream is bigger


>
> > Option 1. Some specific projects from Gnumed to try to get this
> > operational
>
> You'll have to identify the ones of most interest and give me the details.

My mates on the list will have to help
>
> > Option 2. Work on the Au fork of Gnumed to get that operational instead
>
> I don't know what this means. What's the objective of the Au fork?
I can't find those mails at present. Richard Terry and Ian Haywood were 
working on something

>
> > Option 3. Work to make Vista usable in Australia (this is the Vista that
> > belongs to the US Veteran's Administration, not W Gates knock-off the
> > software name)
>
> I understnad that it is written in a rather archaic language so porting it
> is probably not realistic. what might be more doable is a study of it to
> describe it and create an emulator of it.

The backend wouldn't get ported; it is stable although written in MUMPS. An 
Australian front end?

>
> > We did try to get an application into Google's "Summer" of Coding last
> > winter,
> > but the notice given was too short to get anywhere. That was for Gnumed.
> > $5000 isn't much to put up to get somewhere (especially if Peter
> > Costello
> > contributes 50%)
>
> Yes I agree,
>
> Jon
>


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