I?d love to see this timed to be close to another event for those of us who have to travel from the other side of the world. MIE2012 is occurring at the end of August, so a slightly earlier September date for this gathering might be more conducive to some to travel the distance/amortise the expense.
Regards Heather From: openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Beale Sent: Tuesday, 10 January 2012 11:15 PM To: Openehr-Technical; For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: openEHR conference - proposal for Lake Bled, Slovenia 2012 - POLL Dear all, for some years now, people have expressed interest in a live openEHR event. There is no doubt it is overdue! One nice place for such an event happens to be available for 2012: Lake Bled, Slovenia, sometime in the period mid September - mid October - if we act fast. Nothing has been booked: the purpose of this post is for you to decide if you like the idea, and vote on the doodle poll below, so we can determine interest and dates. PLEASE RESPOND AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS, TIME IS SHORT FOR BOOKING. Possibilities for a conference are as below (it's a compendium of ideas from people with a slight allergy to wall-to-wall presentations inside a hotel!) I have run these ideas past the interim openEHR board, and a few other experienced openEHR-ites, and the initial response was positive. There is a poll below to register your interest. * LOCATION: Lake Bled, Slovenia, one of the jewels of central Europe, easy to get to, not too expensive; touristic info <http://www.bled.si/en/> * CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES: * max 3 days of 'conference' activity, with keynotes & organised presentations, many self-organised workshops and hang-outs * keynotes: 2 or 3 international speakers * hang-outs could be in the hotels, but also cafes, by the lake shore, or in picnic fields * topics would include all levels of openEHR-related work, including * clinical modelling, * governance, * programming & solutions in every language, * decision support, * model merging for 13606 revision, * possible Clinical Information Modelling Initiative (CIMI) meetings/presentations * using archetypes to make coffee * etc * academic side: it seems like a good opportunity to get some nice papers together. They would be published in a special issue of one of the existing journals, possibly ejHI <http://www.ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi> . * there would be significant opportunity for the community to self-organise events & activities leading up to the conference. * SOCIAL: * participants encouraged to bring partners, kids and to enjoy the beautiful surroundings * one conference dinner * interspersed with the conference activities, there would be some organised outdoor activities, and free time for self-organised things like canoing, sight-seeing, tourist visits to Ljubljana, the caves, etc * we would organise some good cultural stuff, including live music and maybe a dance night etc * the first day of the conference would be 80% organised social activities and meeting people, no presentations at all (Joaquim Dudeck did this years ago at a CDA conference in Berlin, and it worked fantastically well - all the attendees more or less knew each other by the time any actual conferencing got underway). * COSTS: * we have done some pricing, and we think the attendance price would be around ?500 / head * air-travel to Ljubljana (capital of Slovenia) and then to lake Bled is generally in the ?100 per head range if booked ahead from European destinations. * hotel costs are in a wide range, from ?70 / night single, 80-90 twin, to ?150+/night for lake view doubles and suites. * The organisers would provide guidance for people who want to make a proper holiday out of it and stay one or both weekends (in fact, we might make one weekend part of the conf) * There is a large contingent of local openEHR interest in Slovenia, and many friendly people there who will make visitors welcome and help with organisation (of course there will be a professional company running the event, an organising committee, and so on). Those of you who get involved in conferences will know that there is not much time left for 2012 - about 8 months lead time is needed. We would look for sponsorship to help cover costs. WHAT WE NEED TO DO NOW (AND QUICKLY): * If the above sounds interesting, a window is open for this Lake Bled, mid-Sep -> mid-Oct. I have created an online poll to gauge interest: * INSTRUCTIONS: * go to the doodle poll <http://www.doodle.com/mry4ky77nnzpacu9> * please check contiguous days that could work for you as a conference week - CHECK ALL DAYS OPEN FOR YOU. It's a bit annoying, seems you have to individually check each date, but we would need this data to determine the best date * If you want to be anonymous, no problem - please put something like "Sweden #14", "Brazil #38", etc * OR... if you like the idea but don't like the location or timing, please say something on the clinical or technical list in response to this post. THE INTENDED OUTCOME OF THE POLL IS TO DETERMINE: * how many people (roughly) are interested, and would come sometime in the period available * which week should be booked for the conference, since this has to be locked in very soon One variable that could also be changed is duration. Some people might want more of a short working meeting - as far as I can see, there is no way to include this idea on the doodle poll; please indicate on the lists. If you like the conference idea, but can't participate in the above proposal, or would like some other proposal, please post you ideas instead on the lists. thanks for your input. - thomas beale -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20120111/cbb2e69c/attachment.html>
