On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 04:32:07PM +0000, Thomas Beale wrote:
>
Thomas, just noted that this nice suggestion of your has not
evoked a response so far ... opening the batting here ;-)
>
> What it comes down to is this. Interesting, sometimes long
> discussions occur about topics like "what is an episode",
> "age", "confidentiality" and so on. Many good points are made,
> and there may even be a consensus view reached due to the
> discussion. Then a new discussion occurs. What is lacking is a
> summary/pr?cis of the material - a synthesis if you like. I
> suspect that most discussions which generate 50 pages of email
> could be summarised in about 2 A4 pages. Now, there are various
> technological attempts to help with this sort of process, such
> as Wiki and other online document modification systems.
> However, I have never been convinced that the best way still
> isn't to get a good human brain on the job, to produce a
> summary the old-fashioned way - by reading and thinking! The
> kind of document we are looking for is something ranging from
> an FAQ entry, to up to say 5 pages of detailed description; it
> would then be added to the online knowledge pages of the
> community.
>
[rest snipped]
>
o The proposal of summarising important discussions is nice. It
is also quite unique.
o Implementation would be a hurdle, because of the following :-
a) You need the co-ordinating agency first, and then the core
group needs to set the ball rolling ...
b) Voluntary effort always works for intellctually stimulating
things. IOW, the satisfaction to effort ratio would have to
be high. In this type of thing, with smaller expected ratios
voluntary jobs would have to be done military style: "One
must be detailed to volunteer" ;-)
c) Need a proper flow chart/ UML of the action plan ;-)
o I can help in the Medical portions. I am a medical graduate of
1976 vintage, with a Diploma in Aerospace Medicine and MD.I am
also an unqualified programmer/ IT man of sorts, with initial
forays into programming since CP/M days, more or less self
taught, having learnt tits and bits from works of 'gurus' like
Knuth and Wirth. OOP is a oops situation for me but I am quite
okay at scripting (shell, perl, php) and K&R C (programmed in
pascal style) ! I am totally ANTI-M$, and on Linux/ *BSD since
1995.
o If above QRs fit your bill, count me as an extra hand in for
medical portions only ...
Cheers
Dr USM Bish
Bangalore
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