On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Christian Heller wrote:
...
> I just think that LinuxDoc-Med is at least the 4th list of projects/links

Christian,
  I too, have struggled to understand this situation (being one of the
perpetrators). I don't think it is necessarily all bad to have 4 or even
40 project lists/link libraries. However, it will be very nice if we can
have a way to propagate updates and changes more efficiently across sites.
It is not hard to create a project list. The hard part is updating it. :-)
Similarly, it is not hard to make an electronic medical record system; the
hard part is making it inter-operable with other systems.
  So far, I have not been able to convince anyone that the "project list"
is useful as a testbed for developing inter-operable health information
systems.

See:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04721.html

> and I was suggesting to make LinuxDoc hosting our Documents, such as
> Analysis (Requirements), Design, perhaps a StyleGuide etc., instead of
> being yet another "LinkPortal".

Documents for an active project are probably better hosted by the project
itself. This makes updating more "local" without having to go through
notifying LinuxDoc, for example. I can't imagine how letting LinuxDoc
host all the documentation from the OIO project, FreePM, GnuMed, etc will
be reasonable.

> Don't get me wrong, please, your links are precious and for sure we
> would merge them into Spirit, OIO or so.

If Gerardo or anyone is willing to download the content from the OIO
Library's projects/documents database as an XML file and merge them into
LinuxDoc or other place, that will be great. Alternatively, if Gerardo or
anyone is willing to contribute/give their content to the OIO Library,
that will be great too. Of course, having some kind of open content
license and a structured/tagged output will be helpful.

Best regards,

Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
www.TxOutcome.Org (Hosting OIO Library #1 and OSHCA Mirror #1)

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