Motivate them. Either with money, or by ggiving one a reason to do it. No one would voluntarily work with M, whose cool one variable type just barely outweighs its horrible language definition. I am using it because I have a goal in mind. You will have to do the same for that programmer.
Kevin On 1/14/06, Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you attract developers to work on projects like VistA? There > are a few brave physicians on this list that are really making the > effort to learn to program, but then there are people like me who > know more about semaphores, graphs and complexity classes than blood > gases and basal ganglia. How do you attract people who are not health > care professionals burt who have valuable expertise in software > development to a project such as this? > === > Gregory Woodhouse > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Prediction is difficult, especially of the future." > --Niels Bohr > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members