Hi all, I agree with the others that the early adopters/implementers list should be open to all just like the other lists. It fits well with what openEHR does - promote open source standards and software.
Best regards, Rong Thomas Beale wrote: > Well, we currently only really have 2 lists - technical and clinical. As > time goes on, my guess (and our original prediction on which this was > based) is that the clinical list will emerge as the forum for detailed > discussions about the domain - how to describe it, formalise it, how to > agree on concepts, ontological discussions and so on, while the > technical list will be about modelling, system design, deployments, > security, and so on. Note - I am not saying that clinical people > shouldn't subscribe to the technical list, nor that IT people should not > subscribe to the clinical list. On the contrary, clinical people care > very much about GUI screen efficiency (they'd just as rather be playing > golf or at the pub rather than entering data as anyone else) and system > performance; health informatics developers on the other hand should make > it their mission to understand the domain. So the two main lists are not > to separate people, but to separate discussions. It doesn't work for > every topic, but I think it will generally serve us well as time goes on. > > Other efforts with more lists don't do well in my opinion - HL7 has many > lists, and there is heavy cross-posting all the time. In the Australian > GeHR project we ran in 1998-2002, we had about 6 lists, and it was too > many. But I think one is too few. > > We suggested the early adopters/implementers list for people who a) are > actually doing implementations, or want to lurk on such a list, and b) > won't mind the extra message load. Many people won't want another list, > which may generate quite a lot of messages which they will never read, > so it seems reasonable to have just one more list for people who want to > talk about the nitty-gritty issues of actually building systems based on > openEHR. > > I would be interested to hear further from those who expressed interest > in the adopters/implementers list. > > - thomas beale > > > > > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
