Ignacio Valdes wrote: > We used to have fun in college posting our flush letters for job > applications our senior year so I'm regressing. Perhaps it was my few > journal publications in the field, no experience running any government > agency and little experience with government grants. At least they were > 'favorably impressed'. I think they are just jealous of Linux Medical > News. That's it, they are just jealous! Enjoy.
Iggy, Sorry to let you down, but I think it might be a form letter, not a handcrafted personal message just for you... But I doubt if you would have enjoyed the job - a mole working inside the CDC public health informatics beast tells me it is all about dealing with the large three-letter IT consulting firms to have them build, for vast sums of money, overly-complicated, much-too-generalised frameworks from proprietary components, using cumbersome and bureaucratic development methodologies, accessed via Microsoft-only client applications. Maybe that is slight hyperbole, but that's the general drift. Open source? Not the CDC way, my "source" was told. Free-as-in-beer software binaries, yes, but not open source. A pity, because many of the CDC public health software products have been and are incredibly useful to public health practitioners around the world - Epi Info is the best-known and most influential example - but the fact that they are not open source, just no-cost, leads to a long-term dependency on CDC which is undesirable, I think. Tim C > --- the forwarded message follows --- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Application Status/Director, National Center for Public Health > Informatics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (AD10-05-008) > From: > "Positions, Senior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:23:27 -0500 > > > The ranking panel convened just this week for the position of Director, > National Center for Public Health Informatics, Office of the Director > (OD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. > Interviews will soon begin for those applicants ranked as highest > qualified. Although the Search Committee was favorably impressed with > your training and experience, your name was not among those to be > interviewed at this time. > > On behalf of OD, I want to thank you for your willingness to consider > this particular opportunity at CDC, and to wish you every future success > in your professional endeavors. > > > Anita Gregoire > Human Resources Specialist > Atlanta Human Resources Center > Client Services Division > Special Programs Team > > > >
