That was Aric Stewart from Codeweavers. On Saturday 23 April 2005 10:02 am, Maury Pepper wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 2:30 AM > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Call - TODAY > > > Could someone post highlights or a summary from these calls to this list > > for those of us who can't join the calls? > > OK Jim, here are notes taken by Dee Knapp with a few minor edits by me. > Perhaps Rick or someone who was actually paying attention could fill in > and/or correct. > > Notes of VistA Community Conference Call - April 22, 2005 > > 1. Thanks to Sharon & HP for putting the call together. There is > provision for out-of-the-country participation. > > 2. Boston debriefing: > a. Eric Stewart - Wine port; first draft done > b. Frank Fukunaga and Norman Okamura - VistA Institute - > joint venture WV-Hui-U of Hawaii > c. VSA (501c6 trade association) Barbara Boykin - core mission: > lobbying/marketing; WorldVistA focus is software & > life cycle and community and as 501c3 is limited > d. Internationalization: summarized work done & work left to be > done; worked out reasonable framework for opening > international chapters of WorldVistA > e. Session with Cameron Schlehuber (by phone), WorldVistA and > VSA regarding collaboration: an initiative to resurrect the bidirectional > software gateway; discussed various topics - internationalization > high on list, as well a parameterization (same as VistA Office EHR); > waiting for VA to release guidelines; expecting > something in writing shortly from VA. Result was statement of > intent project by project; VA: Training program & > reference materials; provide training opportunities; existing modules > discussion; CPRS on Linux discussed; also discussed development of > independent verification and validation process for software > developed outside the VA. In verbal stage at this time. > Barbara Boykin did summary - Maury & Barb sent email to Rob > f. Business Model discussed: Dialects, relationships, software > lifecycle, etc. > g. George Timson give presentation of FileMan enhancements: > ScreenMan is now mouse aware - semi-gui ScreenMan and > Internationalization; will be talking with Medsphere CEO to making > this available > h. Marty Johnson - more VistA and MUMPS history before and > after the underground railroad and fire > I. New England M User Group - $Horolog turning 60,000 days > j. MDC revival session - changes for mumps standard; dozen > things: support internationalization need translation into other > character sets; have Mumps ASCII 7 Japanese character sets; need > internationalization character set; follow-up and action items; > std is stable not emergency but need act now > to avoid emergency - Unicode is nice because ;you > don't have to have different character sets - Dialog > file has all translations in same global - not really an > issue. if you want to display a screen with Hebrew & Chinese $L > calculation to figure right layout is more easily done with > Unicode; Chris: standard ISO10646; VistA Standard to code > against. > k. Intersystems was excellent: more meeting rooms; much food & > drink; helped momentum of meeting > l. Misc : demonstrations; Bhaskar installations - VistA Viva > highlights: two most recent FOIAs, OpenVistA 0.4, the VA > demo with CPRS & populated database, m2web, source code for > vista benchmark, GT.M acculturation CD - ; had people volunteering to > help with funding; combination of hosting cover food and attendees > donations - a first: WorldVistA broke even. Donations vs > meeting fee worked well; will do it again. > > 3. Defining the next OpenVistA - framework & timeframe: OpenVistA 2.51 & > VistA Viva; next R&D meeting will do lot of work before May 12-15 in > Seattle consolidate all changes to OpenVistA v.4.0 to include DSS life > cycle tools, Mettle Team work, Stonecutter, M2Web, VPE & other tools; > Rick's tool to search all VistA code; need to establish OpenVistA's > pedigree - what is its relationship to FOIA - big deliverable: compare > to FOIA - changes done with series of KIDS patches; Next week on Monday > will put call to vendors for changes they want to include; May meeting > will be documentation & verification & packing; second trace continuing > web interface development for VistA. > > 4. Quick overview of project ??? > > 5. Two big meetings a year ; small coding & R&D meetings throughout the > year; Next big VistA Community Meeting - Minneapolis in October > 27-30-2004 (tentative) - Teamspeak at Seattle meeting-good idea - need > is to have brief report of this meeting - decision: post on Hardhats and > website as well a Friday call; video recap for download. > > 6. Need open source license > > 7. VistA Imaging outside VA? Hui compiled code - Jos Puthooran in India > interested in doing this - Anyone done work on this? No; Is Imaging > involved with Oklahoma VA Home sites using Imaging? no, not for awhile; > implementation of core modules by June 2005. > > Those who announce their presence: > K. S. Bhaskar > Joseph Dal Molin > David Whitten > Rick Marshall > Sharon Mobley > Dee Knapp > Maury Pepper > Chris Richardson > Tom Ackerman > Ignacio Valdez > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=Click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
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