On 04/11/2010 20:59, pablo pazos wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I didn't mean that we have to follow the HL7 structure and ways of > funding. They have good and bad things, as you point. One of the good > things is that a set of small regional communities are stronger than a > huge central community, because they have common interests, common > language, common culture, etc. For example I spend more than 15 mins > on writing emails to the lists because of the language, when I spend 3 > mins writing to lists in spanish. Reading the english only specs is > another thing that discourages people with no formation in the language.
I certainly appreciate this - I spend time reading specifications in other languages, and it is slow, since I am not perfectly bilingual. We do have some translations of specifications, but not much. Good translations are expensive and they also have to be maintained. For example, the french translation of the ADL spec is excellent, but now out of date, and there is no business model to support its updating. > > > Again, I think we can build some money to improve the tools, like > making courses, events (like the IHE Connectathon), selling books, > t-shirts, coffe cups, etc (donations are always welcome). I'm against > a paid membership, it closes a community that claims to be open, this > is not a gym :D well, its why we never did that. I think your ideas are good, the only concern I have is that I think there still has to be a sufficiently strong central part of the organisation to help organise materials, resources, and run the governance structure; at the moment there is not enough funding to do what would be needed to support local orgs. But I would very much like to see openehr.cl, .br, .uy, etc. > > Just an idea: I think the Service Model is very green yet, but when it > go a little more mature, we can make automated tests to test the > implementations, and they can have an OpenEHR certificate that the > software meets the specification (a paid certificate). we can already test with XML schemas. You are right, the service models will be a key basis for conformance testing, but it will take some more time to get the required maturity. * * - thomas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101104/43ed4fb7/attachment.html>
