On Fri, 11 May 2001, Smith, Todd wrote:
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> If the community as a whole needs to build a
> consortium to represent itself that is a touchy question. Given the two
> flamewars that I have observed here, both of them involved community
issues.
Hi Todd,
I agree with you completely. That is why I think it is important to
build a consortium *before* we have our next flamewar.
A possible "joint" endeaver would be the collaborative construction of
our "virtual" projects database. If we are going to fight over anything,
we might as well fight over something that we all care about and can
easily access and use everyday. :-)
As I outlined in a previous message, the players will be LinuxMedNews,
OIO, SPIRIT, and perhaps OpenEMed, FreePM and GEHR down the road. We will
simulate an interoperating group of medical record systems by trading
"project listings".
Best regards,
Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
TxOutcome.Org (hosting OIO Library #1)
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
University of California, Los Angeles
