Hi Tom, having such a social get together would be very nice....I'd vote for Amsterdam :)
Cheers, -koray ________________________________________ From: openehr-technical-bounces at chime.ucl.ac.uk [openehr-technical-bounces at chime.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Thomas Beale [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 29 November 2009 8:57 a.m. To: For openEHR technical discussions Subject: Re: informal poll: openEHR conference I forgot to mention: personally I would like it to be an environmentally conscious event (in as much as any conference could be), and one thing I would at least try for is a destination that allow many people to go by train rather than by plane. Sam and I once did London - Maastricht (which by the way is also a good location) on the train in 7.5h (1.5h wait in Brussels) compared to what we calculated as 5h by plane. But we got 6h work done, and 1h drinking Belgian beer. I consider that a successful journey. Of course not much can be done about long haul flying from the US and down-under. Another priority for me would be the idea that it would not repeat every few months like standards meetings, maybe not even every year (a bi-annual event maybe?) - so we could afford to spend some time together as a community. Also, I would put as much value on the networking and social side of things as on the 'business of openEHR' - which means finding a nice destination, one that works perfectly well if people want to have a holiday, with kids, partners etc. The cost might also be an important consideration for most people, although if it were say every 2 years, it may not matter as much as for standards meetings which just keep happening. these are just personal thoughts; it could only happen if enough people in the community would sign up to the idea to make it viable. - thomas beale Mikael Nystr?m wrote: I guess that the social activities would be quite important for the community and they are hard to organize on airports and train stations. I therefore vote for other locations than airports and train stations. Greetings, Mikael From: openehr-technical-bounces at chime.ucl.ac.uk<mailto:openehr-technical-bounces at chime.ucl.ac.uk> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bert Verhees Sent: den 27 november 2009 17:38 To: openehr-technical at openehr.org<mailto:openehr-technical at openehr.org> Subject: Re: informal poll: openEHR conference An international airport/train station nearby would be good, it saves days of traveling. Bert Op 27-11-09 17:25, Thomas Beale schreef: This is an initial informal question to the community about interest in an openEHR conference / meeting, probably initially located in Europe. Possibly activities: * presentations / papers on commercial & academic projects * technical working design sessions for major upcoming specifications * clinical modelling design sessions / presentations / discussions / debates * meetings aimed at making decisions about the running & governance of openEHR, enabling future organisational improvement * professional and academic networking activities * some purely social activities. purely as an example of a nice location at which social and outdoor activities can take place, Lake Bled in Slovenia has been suggested, of course there are many other wonderful locations. I have heard many requests for a conference over the last few years, so I wonder what the reaction & interest of the community to this suggestion would be. - thomas beale _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical at openehr.org<mailto:openEHR-technical at openehr.org> http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical ________________________________ _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical at openehr.org<mailto:openEHR-technical at openehr.org> http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical -- [cid:part1.05030002.04040909 at oceaninformatics.com] Thomas Beale Chief Technology Officer, Ocean Informatics<http://www.oceaninformatics.com/> Chair Architectural Review Board, openEHR Foundation<http://www.openehr.org/> Honorary Research Fellow, University College London<http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/> Chartered IT Professional Fellow, BCS, British Computer Society<http://www.bcs.org.uk/> Health IT blog<http://www.wolandscat.net/>
