I see OSHA as primarily a business and professional organization for open source software in health care. It's purpose would be to gather the resources to tackle large projects. These resources including people, expertise, and funding. We are moving to an era where development groups are proposing open source products to traditional health care organization in response to RFPs and in direct competition with proprietary vendors. Direct government funding of open source projects is going to happen real soon now in some countries. One of the problems is that open source development groups tend to be small and are therefor limited in their ability to tackle larger projects by themselves. OSHA would be a means for these groups to form alliances and partnerships to jointly work on these large projects. OSHA could also provide facilities for co-ordination and common issues. In this way, it would be a kind of clearing house where people, development groups, support groups, and clients can get together to do business. This was the original idea when Joseph brought up the topic on this list. If you are interested in being a founding member of this organization, please contact Joseph Dal Molin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Brian
