On 25-10-14 05:21, pablo pazos wrote: > > Bottom line, I just see a gap between the foundation and the > community, and that gap gets bigger because of language and > geografical differences. That's why I created the openEHR course in > spanish and the ES community. My proposal is just a "help me help you" > situation. > > > Working towards medinfo, I hope we can join ours efforts in creating > awareness, but it is not clear for me if we should organize community > stuff separated from the foundation stuff or if we can narrow the gap. > I know you are doing a great job. I often see your promotion for course in Spanish, on LinkedIn, on Google Plus (maybe). I forgot where, but I see it a few times a week. That is really a good thing.
And it is necessary. The specs are bad learning material, there are also not meant for that. I remember, ten years ago, sitting at the swimming pool with my little children, reading OpenEHR-specs. They were hard to read because of their formal language. It is no material for learning. In learning people things, you need to come with examples, with stories, let the Reference Models and other specs live for people, make it fun to read. Anyway, I came through, I did my best, and it was rewarded. But many people are not able to do that, because they do not have the freedom to spend 50 hours or so on something which is not required to learn. And reading the OpenEHR specs as a hobby in free time, that is asked too much for most of humanity. I am an independent developer, almost twenty years now. I choose myself how to spend my time, and a lot of time is used because I make choices which seem irrelevant. But I don't mind. I try to have a Buddhist view on it. It are all steps to greater wisdom. I am a lucky bastard. "The master moves from program to program without fear. No failure can harm him. Why is this? He is filled with Tao." But for the other people, young people, needing to study for their masters, old managers, need to understand for their decisions, politicians, relying on ISO, all these people need easy entrance to knowledge. You try to get it of the ground. You should not only do it in Spanish, but also in English. I think you have a good business-case when OpenEHR as an formal definition tries to get more status. But you have a bad business-case if it fails on the market. It is not only in your hands. You can comfort yourself with the thought that nothing in life will be done in vain. In everything is a lesson. With the lessons you have learned, you later can pick up something else. But besides that, I hope the communities and foundation will support you, because it is important work that you do, for us all. If we want something to be a success, we have to reach the hearts and minds. Have a nice day Bert
