Here is a wiki page for governance discussion - http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/oecom/Community+Governance
Bob Mayes is a great guy by the way, he worked for many years in Zimbabwe. - thomas On 05/11/2010 01:21, pablo pazos wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I see we agreed in much of the points, I hope to see other's visions. > > Governance is a good issue to discuss with the community, but I can't > see any governance if the OpenEHR boards are distant from the > community, and do not understand their real needs. What I was really > talking from the begining of this discussion is that people, > institutions, and goverments have needs that OpenEHR can satisfy, but > at the same time, OpenEHR as a whole is not aware of their needs, or > is not taking actions to do something. > > There are a lots of ways of funding, just yesterday, we had an event > here in Uruguay of ICT developments in healthcare (we showed our Open > EHR-Gen Framework and people was amazed about the concept), there was > a man called Bob Mayes from AMIA, and their are launching a subarea > called GHiP to build and support communities that solve problems in > healthcare informatics (with funding from Rockefeller and Bill Gates > foundations, tehy have a buck or two :D). GHiP may be a good place to > find some cash to build a governance program to the regional OpenEHR > communities, and to support development and objective acomplishment in > those communities. > > The governance program must have an item on how to spend the funding, > and this item must be agreed by the community. > > *It'd be a good idea if we create some section on the web or the wiki, > where we can write some thoughs on the governance subject, also we can > put some governance ideas from other communities, discuss them, and > see if the community agree them. Again, without the involvement of the > boards, this will be a dead-before-born subject.* > > > > Again, I think we can build some money to improve the > tools, like making courses, events (like the IHE > Connectathon), selling books, t-shirts, coffe cups, etc > (donations are always welcome). I'm against a paid > membership, it closes a community that claims to be open, > this is not a gym :D > > > well, its why we never did that. I think your ideas are good, > the only concern I have is that I think there still has to be > a sufficiently strong central part of the organisation to help > organise materials, resources, and run the governance > structure; at the moment there is not enough funding to do > what would be needed to support local orgs. > But I would very much like to see openehr.cl, .br, .uy, etc. > > > Just an idea: I think the Service Model is very green yet, > but when it go a little more mature, we can make automated > tests to test the implementations, and they can have an > OpenEHR certificate that the software meets the > specification (a paid certificate). > > > we can already test with XML schemas. You are right, the > service models will be a key basis for conformance testing, > but it will take some more time to get the required maturity. > > ** - thomas > > > -- > Atte. > A/C Pablo Pazos Guti?rrez > LinkedIn: http://uy.linkedin.com/in/pablopazosgutierrez > Blog: http://informatica-medica.blogspot.com/ > S?gueme en twitter: http://twitter.com/ppazos > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical -- Ocean Informatics *Thomas Beale Chief Technology Officer, Ocean Informatics <http://www.oceaninformatics.com/>* Chair Architectural Review Board, /open/EHR 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/> * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101108/8722e20e/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ocean_full_small.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5828 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101108/8722e20e/attachment.jpg>
