Hi Tom, On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 16:25 +0000, Thomas Beale wrote: > a few points informally (I am not on any boards of any organisations, > so these are my own thoughts): > * any organisation like openEHR needs some core paid people to > execute key functions, and to maintain continuity. There is an > 'officers' level, which runs any organisations, including > admin and other support staff, and there is an operational > level. > * for the operational level, there are typically posts like CTO, > CMO, infrastructure management, project coordination, and so > on. If the organisation is to do properly what its members > want - typically 2 things: a) manage specifications/standards, > including member involvement in this, and b) manage open > source projects, potentially largely staffed by volunteers - > then it has to have a few dedicated posts. Otherwise it > becomes no-one's responsibility to actually coordinate things, > keep infrastructure running etc.
If these are the thoughts of, whom I consider to be, the most open source/content aware person within the openEHR Foundation. Then I *highly* recommend: Hippel, Eric von. Democratizing innovation / Eric von Hippel. ISBN 0-262-00274-4 (available in PDF via a CC license; btw) Also, you may want to re-visit your comments about Linux.org and Apache.org. The history of how they became organizations is more important than the fact that they exist today. I hope you find this useful. Regards, Tim -- *************************************************************** Timothy Cook, MSc Project Lead - Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modeling http://www.mlhim.org LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook Skype ID == timothy.cook Academic.Edu Profile: http://uff.academia.edu/TimothyCook You may get my Public GPG key from popular keyservers or from this link http://timothywayne.cook.googlepages.com/home -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101116/a8ee2936/attachment.asc>
