on 10-9-2008 0:31 Thomas Beale wrote:
> Roger Erens wrote:
>
>> ... Probably it's time
>> for openEHR to gear up some PR-machinery. The propaganda should be
>> backed up by tutorials, screencasts, lectures, workshops, flyers,
>> working demos, etc.
>>
>>
>
> it always is time for that! But this community belongs to everyone on
> this list. People here could help with this, at least with concrete
> suggestions on improvements to available material, or even better, by
> creating some new explanatory materials (which the so-called experts
> would always be happy to review).
>
You're very right. OTOH, everybody's very busy, so some focus is needed.
A 'champion' who does some roadmapping, coordinate efforts of
contributors, reports to insiders and outsiders would be beneficial to
openEHR 'spreading the word'.
>
>> And finally, on the risk of being pedantic, but following these tips
>> would really make reading the mailing lists on PDA's (as many clinicians
>> do own) much more comfortable:
>>
>> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
>>
>>
>
> Many of us use the old style unix/usenet quoting approach (pretty much
> as explained at that link in fact); I hear MS Outlook users saying they
> can't handle that. What problems do you experience Roger?
>
Sometimes a message gets quoted in its entirety. And then a following
reply to that message holds both previous messages entirely. And so on.
There are threads where this happened even five times or more (like the
GUI-hints in templates, ultimo June). When you access such a post, you
have no idea whether you need to scroll down (because that's where MS
Outlook puts the quoted material) all the way in order not to miss a
valuable comment, or you can skip the careless quoted material. On a PDA
with its limited screen estate, that's a lot of scrolling, I can assure
you :-( .
But then again, that happened at the technical mailing list, so perhaps
I'm barking up the wrong tree here :-)
