Hi all, It has been exactly one month since I volunteered to build the new OSHCA website (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05283.html). Perhaps a necessary evil of working as a group is the "admistrative" overhead - but I am hoping that this won't mean an entire month just to get a mailing list going.
Since no one disagreed with my original proposal - I assume the outline was acceptable to all. So, I have spent the last four hours creating the new OSHCA website. It has most of the features that I promised in my original proposal. It was quite a bit of copying and pasting but most of the relevant content from the current OSHCA.Org site has been moved over. It is fully searchable, content can be easy submitted/edited/updated over time, downloaded as XML, etc by an "editoral group". The biggest improvement will be the ease of keeping the site content up-to-date. Now that it is *real* product, perhaps some of you will take a look and decide whether to use it as the official www.OSHCA.Org. In the meantime, it can simply serve as a mirror of the official site. Please take a look and give me your comments. If any of you would like to test the editorial tools (to move documents around and edit/change the pages), I would be happy to set up an editor's account for you. The direct URL to the OSHCA page is: http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/library/files/browse/show_contents/objectid-244 Alternatively, you can enter through the OIO Library which gives you access to a site navigation tree: http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/library (in Projects > Reading Material > Advocacy) For those who are more artically inclined than I, please consider this a "first draft" that can acquire different style and be adorned with more pleasing color schemes with your assistance. Finally, Karsten Hilbert is the editor responsible for the Reading Material section of the OIO Library (that currently contains the new OSHCA site). It will be up to him to decide whether the OSHCA "reading material" is appropriate content and whether it will stay there. Best regards, Andrew --- 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
