Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Molly Cheah
Richard, I would appreciate it if you allow the protem committee to make the decisions on OSHCA since the community has given us the mandate to resurrect OSHCA. Otherwise I feel that you're undermining our efforts. I don't understand why suddenly you're in such a hurry. Like many others, Tim

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas Beale
Richard Schilling wrote: OSHCA will need to be incorporated in every country it has a presence. It's a question of where you start, really. The origin of incorporation also affects how that company can behave when operating overseas. wellmaybe. We incorporated openEHR Foundation in the UK

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Tim.Churches
Brian Bray wrote: Thanks for the welcome, Bhaskar, and also the warm welcome (in every sense of the word) I've received from many others. Also, thank you for creating this list. The list software at minoru-development.com was and is broken- you took the right step to keep this incredible

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Tim.Churches
Dr Molly Cheah wrote: Is OSCHA a religious organization or an independent world-wide technological organization accessible to everyone regardless of religious conviction? (Tim, you're not making any sense with your star and crescent comment). I think Tim was just being cheeky

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Schilling
The protem committee taking four years to get this far is a pretty clear indication that they've undermined themselves. Richard Molly Cheah wrote: Richard, I would appreciate it if you allow the protem committee to make the decisions on OSHCA since the community has given us the mandate

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Tim.Churches
David Forslund wrote: Molly, Incorporating OSHCA in the US doesn't necessarily imply US domination. No, but US citizens need to be sensitive to the negative feelings towards the US which are present and growing in many countries around the world. Whether this antipathy towards the US is

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Molly Cheah
It is obvious you had not been around the community and don't know what you're talking about. The idea to ressurrect OSHCA was mooted in November 2005 just before the WSIS in Tunis. This protem committee was formed earlier this month and announced to the community on 28/3/2006 in my e-mail

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Tim.Churches
Richard Schilling wrote: The protem committee taking four years to get this far is a pretty clear indication that they've undermined themselves. No, Richard. There have been two, quite distinct pro tempore OSHCA committees. The first one, of which I was a member, was working towards

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Will -- Any member of the list can post a compressed archive of the mails in the Files area of http://yahoogroups.com/group/openhealth (in a non-proprietary format, of course!), but we have a limit of 20MB. How big would an archive be? -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 06:42 -0600, Will Ross

Re: next steps. (was Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update)

2006-03-29 Thread Will Ross
On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Richard Schilling wrote: I'm simply saying I'll do the work and give OSCHA a physical presence here, as long as I know there will be people there to sign up. I don't want to establish a U.S. presence for OSCHA that has no interest. Building up an OSCHA

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim.Churches wrote: David Forslund wrote: Molly, Incorporating OSHCA in the US doesn't necessarily imply US domination. No, but US citizens need to be sensitive to the negative feelings towards the US which are present and growing in many countries around the world. Whether this

[openhealth] Names not related to Spinal Tap or anything like that...

2006-03-29 Thread Will Ross
humor alert Names Survey - - - - - - - - Please select the band name most consistent with the dignity of an alliance of professional open source health care software informaticists. [1] Molly and the Protems [2] Molly and the Second Coming [3] Molly and the Malaysians [4] Dr. Cheah's

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Tim.Churches
Thomas Beale wrote: Tim.Churches wrote: David Forslund wrote: Molly, Incorporating OSHCA in the US doesn't necessarily imply US domination. No, but US citizens need to be sensitive to the negative feelings towards the US which are present and growing in many countries

Re: [openhealth] OSHCA web portal.

2006-03-29 Thread Heitzso
On a techie note, CivicSpace or some combination of Drupal and modules may be useful. CivicSpace is geared to support this type of web portal. It still takes futzing with, but comes with a lot of functionality built in. My biggest complaint is it doesn't work with PHP 5 yet.

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
I checked mailarchive.com and it is still operational...but don't know how far back it goes. Joseph Brian Bray wrote: There have been 12928 messages. At a rough guess, this would consume most of the storage capacity at Yahoo to have in a searchable format. Some form of protection for email

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Molly Cheah
Brian, In not underestimating the importance of the Minoru mail archives, can these be saved into a hard disk (40 or 80 G), since this is too big for the yahoo archive limit? I already have some pledges of financial support privately from some members and we can afford to purchase this

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Fred Trotter
I think what Will, Molly, Tim and others are suggesting is that we allow Molly to register the organization were it is most convient for her, (since she has been the one pushing for this) and then allowing the organization itself to consider registering or not registering OSHCA in other places on

[openhealth] Geneva Forum - Towards Global Access to Health

2006-03-29 Thread Molly Cheah
*GENEVA** FORUM - TOWARDS GLOBAL ACCESS TO HEALTH - * *August 30- September 1st, 2006* *International Conference Centre of Geneva, Switzerland* Website: website: http://www.hcuge.ch/genevahealthforum THEMES: Access to health systems, Access to drugs, vaccines diagnosis,