Dear Francesco, all,
I would like to support the proposed operation. I think there will be a
benefit for both initiatives if it is possible to define a common interface.
I also highly recommend to work towards a component based architecture.
This is something what we are trying to stimulate in the FLOSS in health
care area but with limited success due to a missing governing body. In
the AAL arena this role should be filled by AALOA.
Best regards,
Thomas
Am 27.09.2010 01:07, schrieb Francesco Furfari:
Dear All,
I have a question of interest for the temporary governing board of
AALOA and all the promoters.
I will call a vote on that, so I kindly ask all the promoters to read
carefully the content of this message,
and to post here any doubt about this operation. Below you find also
my personal comments
At the AAL Forum, Antonio Kung, Stefano Chessa, me and Jan
Alexandersson ( Head AAL Competence Center
DFKI GmbH) had an interesting discussion about a joint announcement
to publish during the MonAMI workshop
at the 5th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (*14-16
Nov*, Passau, Germany)
You can read the story in the attached message, but for your
convenience below there is the agreed statement
---------------------
(1) As an initiative for the building of an open source
accessibility framework, OpenURC will focus on features for
personalised and accessible user interfaces. /This involves
discovery of devices and targets, and flexible deployment and
management of adaptors. It will rely on the specification of
standards for device descriptions and user interface descriptions./
(2) As an initiative for the building of an open source service
framework, AALOA will focus on features for ambient awareness, and
for the flexible deployment and management of assisted living
services. It will rely on the specification of standards allowing
services to interact with ambient environments.
* (3) Integrating each other contribution*
The two initiatives see a potential for sharing developed features
and specification so that OpenURC-based platforms can integrate
AALOA components, and AALOA-based platforms can integrate
OpenURC-based components.
* (4) Towards convergence*
They further agree to undertake a discussion in order to work
towards a common architecture.
-----------------
We decided that the consequent actions of the parties would have been:
* OpenURC to check (1)
* AALOA to check (2)
* All to check (3), (4)
* OpenURC to prepare a specific press release announcing its
creation to the press
* AALOA to prepare a specific press release announcing its
creation to the press
* Make a press release for the joint announcement
* Make sure that AALOA and OpenURC websites will include the 3
press releases and link to each other
Thus this mail is to open the discussion about such common action to
do and any further collaboration with OpenURC community.
Here a reference about URC
http://myurc.org/TR/urc-tech-primer
URC stands for Universal Remote Console Standards (ANSI/INCITS
389-2005 through 393-2005).
----- *my personal comments*
At the moment it may sound strange the wording : "AALOA components"
in (3).
In AALOA we don't have any reference to a common architecture yet.
AALOA will grow initially as the aggregation of different projects,
and a convergence process will be "somehow" created in the long run.
Nevertheless it is right to say that the purpose of AALOA is to
compare the diverse solutions available, in this respect URC has to be
taken into account and we can encourage its evaluation. However we may
only advertise all the members of such initiative, any adoption or
integration of URC standards in this moment is let to the autonomous
decisions of single projects or individuals of AALOA. As member of
universAAL project, I can only anticipate you that further meetings
will follow in the next months between universAAL members and OpenURC
community.
Of course it would advisable that an URC-based project was incubated
in AALOA, it would increase the visibility of URC to all the member
joining AALOA. This is something I already suggested to Jan and that
he will further discuss with URC members .
Said that, aware of the limit of the announcement, I think it is
useful to increase visibility of our actions and to confirm that
AALOA is working as catalyst of interesting initiatives.
Best regards,
Francesco
_______________________________________________
Promoters mailing list
Promoters@aaloa.org
http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/promoters
--
Thomas Karopka
Head of ehealth Department
chair EFMI LIFOSS WG
vice chair IMIA OS WG
IT Science Center Rügen gGmbH
Circus 14
18581 Putbus, Germany
Tel.:+493830188290
Fax.:+4938301882959
_______________________________________________
Promoters mailing list
Promoters@aaloa.org
http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/promoters
