Tim, this is an interesting looking book, I downloaded it. However, as I and I imagine others won't get through 220 pages instantly, do you want to summarise what you see as the lessons from it, while this discussion is still warm?
- thomas On 16/11/2010 12:44, Tim Cook wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 16:25 +0000, Thomas Beale wrote: >> a few points informally (I am not on any boards of any organisations, >> so these are my own thoughts): >> * any organisation like openEHR needs some core paid people to >> execute key functions, and to maintain continuity. There is an >> 'officers' level, which runs any organisations, including >> admin and other support staff, and there is an operational >> level. >> * for the operational level, there are typically posts like CTO, >> CMO, infrastructure management, project coordination, and so >> on. If the organisation is to do properly what its members >> want - typically 2 things: a) manage specifications/standards, >> including member involvement in this, and b) manage open >> source projects, potentially largely staffed by volunteers - >> then it has to have a few dedicated posts. Otherwise it >> becomes no-one's responsibility to actually coordinate things, >> keep infrastructure running etc. > If these are the thoughts of, whom I consider to be, the most open > source/content aware person within the openEHR Foundation. Then I > *highly* recommend: > > Hippel, Eric von. > Democratizing innovation / Eric von Hippel. > ISBN 0-262-00274-4 > > (available in PDF via a CC license; btw) > > Also, you may want to re-visit your comments about Linux.org and > Apache.org. The history of how they became organizations is more > important than the fact that they exist today. > > I hope you find this useful. > > Regards, > Tim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical -- Ocean Informatics *Thomas Beale Chief Technology Officer, Ocean Informatics <http://www.oceaninformatics.com/>* Chair Architectural Review Board, /open/EHR Foundation <http://www.openehr.org/> Honorary Research Fellow, University College London <http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/> Chartered IT Professional Fellow, BCS, British Computer Society <http://www.bcs.org.uk/> Health IT blog <http://www.wolandscat.net/> * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101117/a362cf35/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ocean_full_small.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5828 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101117/a362cf35/attachment.jpg>
