Hi Tom, On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 15:51 +0000, Thomas Beale wrote: > > Tim, > > this is an interesting looking book, I downloaded it. However, as I > and I imagine others won't get through 220 pages instantly,
Well, that is all a matter of personal cost/benefit; isn't? :-) > do you want to summarise what you see as the lessons from it, while > this discussion is still warm? Nope, not on my todo list nor in a consulting contract. I only offered the information there for those that think it might be helpful. Reading a book is a context sensitive thing anyway. Cheers, Tim > - 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 > > Chair Architectural Review Board, > openEHR Foundation > Honorary Research Fellow, > University College London > Chartered IT Professional Fellow, > BCS, British Computer Society > Health IT blog > > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical -- *************************************************************** Timothy Cook, MSc Project Lead - Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modeling http://www.mlhim.org LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook Skype ID == timothy.cook Academic.Edu Profile: http://uff.academia.edu/TimothyCook You may get my Public GPG key from popular keyservers or from this link http://timothywayne.cook.googlepages.com/home -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20101117/50eed518/attachment.asc>
