Re: [openhealth] Liberty HSF formation process

2009-06-04 Thread Fouad Bajwa
Hello Fred and Dr. Valdes, First of all please accept my personal congratulations to you and your team members on the establishment of the Liberty Health Software Foundation as well as upon receiving the 501(c)3 status! It is indeed a wonderful evolution of an initiative dedicated to the Free

Re: [openhealth] Liberty HSF formation process

2009-06-04 Thread fred trotter
Thanks for replying... I sent you a private email about coordinating our efforts. -FT On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM, karo...@it-science-center.de wrote: Hi Fred! Congratulations! As co-chair of the EFMI LIFOSS WG and member of the IMIA OS WG I am looking forward to work together with

Re: [openhealth] Liberty HSF formation process

2009-06-04 Thread fred trotter
1. Training Programs - Both Paid and Sponsored That makes sense, but it is unclear what we should train on. WorldVistA is, as at first blush, a better organization for handeling VistA training, and there are typically corporate backers that offer training for other projects. Still I would

[openhealth] Re: Liberty HSF formation process

2009-06-04 Thread fred trotter
Everyone I have talked to in the FOSS community has indicated that the feature-bucket testing model that CCHIT currently puts forward does not work for us. I would like to work with CCHIT, but not under the constraints of accepting aspects of the current model that are broken. If anyone in our

Re: [openhealth] Re: Liberty HSF formation process

2009-06-04 Thread caultonpos
** humming supportively in the background ** Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: fred trotter fred.trot...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:45:18 To: open-ehealth-collaborat...@googlegroups.com Cc: openhealth@yahoogroups.com;

Re: [openhealth] Re: Liberty HSF formation process

2009-06-04 Thread fred trotter
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Beller sbel...@nhds.com wrote: Fred, This is encouraging and I wish you great success! Two questions: 1. How do you define hybrid vendors and distinguish them from FOSS vendors? Anyone who makes money by supporting FOSS AND by selling proprietary