woooh!! So we have a new DHIS Newsletter... If someone can also add implementation stories/news and send it to Bob, nothing like it!!
--- Regards, Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA Director R & D, HISP India Health Information Systems Programme My Tech Blog: http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE 2009/5/15 Bob Jolliffe <[email protected]> > OK. I will attempt a weekly round up. Because of the relatively high > frequency the content will be short mostly consisting of links. I > will use Cameron Laird's example here - > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/9986800b92ce96be - as > my guide. Notice there are only 8 news items. > > Look out for a mail with subject line DHIS2-URL! sometime between > Sunday and Monday. > > Regards > Bob > > 2009/5/14 Ola Hodne Titlestad <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Bob Jolliffe <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Never read Carl Fogel's advice before but I have to find myself > >> agreeing with him. I am a mailing list person. > >> > >> Still Ola is right - there is a whole lot of stuff happening on > >> launchpad and elsewhere which we need to track. One approach is an > >> ancient one adopted by the tcl project (still the greatest little > >> programming language ever invented) where some one of us takes the > >> responsibility once a week to write a short summary of DHIS2 > >> happenings to this list - http://wiki.tcl.tk/228. Any new blueprints. > >> Changes to existing ones. Summary of interesting discussions. Great > >> bugs which were squashed etc. The tcl community have weekly archives > >> going back to 1998 of messages with a subject line "Tcl-URL". It has > >> worked very well and has been copied by many projects. > >> > >> The idea is that someone does it for a month or two then passes on the > >> baton. > >> > >> Any takers? I will give it a go if no one else wants to, though maybe > >> someone who has been with the project longer would do it better. > > > > I like this idea Bob. Lars has tried something similar with the > Development > > Update mail, but that is not frequent enough and I haven't seen it for a > > while. > > We are quite poor at communicating new ideas (blueprints), features > > implemented (commit mails so not always give the full picture), work in > > progress etc and this has consequences around the network. People are > facing > > the same problems in different countries and often end of with > duplicating > > efforts due to poor communication across borders. I definely support this > > weekly summary e-mail and think you're an excellent candidate Bob to get > > this off the ground. If you miss out on something I am sure others can > fill > > in with replies to the summary mail, so no need to worry about not being > in > > the project long enough. Great initiative! > > > > Ola > > --------- > > > > > >> > >> Regards > >> Bob > >> > >> 2009/5/14 Saptarshi Purkayastha <[email protected]>: > >> > We should follow Carl Fogel's advice and follow discussion only on > >> > mailing > >> > lists... Blueprints could act as outcome of those discussion or to > >> > summarize > >> > discussions > >> > > >> > ... And there are better ways to see the roadmap than what launchpad > is > >> > showing us :( > >> > > >> > --- > >> > Regards, > >> > Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA > >> > Director R & D, HISP India > >> > Health Information Systems Programme > >> > > >> > My Tech Blog: http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com > >> > You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE > >> > > >> > > >> > 2009/5/14 Ola Hodne Titlestad <[email protected]> > >> >> > >> >> Hi, > >> >> > >> >> Launchpad does not send out e-mails to the list when new blueprints > >> >> (feature requests, design ideas) are created like it does when new > >> >> bugs are > >> >> reported. Although its perfectly possible to follow the blueprints by > >> >> visiting the launchpad pages I have a feeling that we are loosing out > >> >> on a > >> >> lot of important discussions here. > >> >> > >> >> So here is a reminder to those of you that are interested in > following > >> >> and > >> >> influencing the DHIS development that you should monitor changes to > >> >> this > >> >> page: > >> >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2 > >> >> > >> >> If blueprints are administered properly (release series and > milestonse > >> >> being set) this page gives a more roadmap like view: > >> >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/trunk/+specs?show=all > >> >> (Especially if you click two times on the Milestone column heading to > >> >> sort > >> >> by milestone.) > >> >> > >> >> I feel some of the more important blueprints should be discussed on > the > >> >> list and not only using the blueprint window in launchpad, what do > >> >> others > >> >> think about this? > >> >> Maybe a good practice could be to write an e-mail to the list after > >> >> registering a blueprint, to let people know about it and invite to a > >> >> list > >> >> discussion/feedback round? > >> >> I guess not all blueprints are worth discussing, but then again, it's > a > >> >> big heterogeneous network and we do not really know what all the > others > >> >> are > >> >> interested in either... > >> >> > >> >> best regards, > >> >> Ola Hodne Titlestad > >> >> HISP > >> >> University of Oslo > >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> Mailing list: > >> >> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >> >> Post to : [email protected] > >> >> Unsubscribe : > >> >> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Mailing list: > >> > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >> > Post to : [email protected] > >> > Unsubscribe : > >> > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: > >> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : > >> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: > > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : > > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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