Hi Brian,
If you add an entry that describes your new EuSpirit project to the OIO Library,
that may help people discover your site.
You don't need my permission to do that, you can simply go the the OIO Library at
www.TxOutcome.Org and add that record yourself.
I see that we are approaching the construction of our databases in very different
ways. You see "adding a link to LinuxMedNews" on the EuSpirit site as benefiting
LinuxMedNews. In order for Ignacio to get you to correct your "oversight", he had to
send you a pretty biting message in public. Its pretty unconvincing that this is an
innocent oversight. If indeed this is an oversight, it is yet another reason for you
to invite and even consider paying for quality peer-review!!! :-)
In contrast, the OIO Library welcomes anyone to add project descriptions and links.
We see "adding a link to EuSpirit" as an act that benefits our community. In order for
anyone to add EuSpirit to the OIO Library, all you have to do is point-and-click. You
don't have to threaten, bribe, or embarass us. If you need Editorial support
afterwards, you can click on the <Editorial Request> link - and we will gratefully
service your request.
You see Brian - when you said that you are going to add a link to LinuxMedNews'
Project List - do you know what that URL is? Do you even bother to ask? How are you
going to handle the updating of information in your projects and links database?
These are all problems that we have already begun to solve with the OIO Library.
Maybe we have even come up with solutions that can help you. That is why I have been
trying so hard to offer you help.
Do you know what I am offering?
Is it that you are just not interested?
Is it that you prefer to quietly copy and reverse-engineer without giving credit as
Joseph dal Molin suggested?
Maybe you just prefer public embarassment?
By prefering to work in isolation, you only engender suspicion and distrust. I am
trying to help you by asking questions. When you see pointed and direct questions as
"distractions", "accusations", and even "hostility" with "hidden agenda", you
sacrifice your credibility as a interested participant in our community.
When the questions stop, that's when we have given up on you. Don't let that happen.
I remain very puzzled,
Anderw
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
www.TxOutcome.Org
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
University of California, Los Angeles
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:45:35 Brian Bray wrote:
>Ignacio Valdes a icrit :
>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>
>Thanks for the forthright post.
>
>I apologise for spelling your name incorrectly.
>
>We are adding a link to the spirit homepage http://www.euspirit.org to
>link to the LinuxMedNews project list. It was an oversight not to
>include it, but the list was only created yesterday, so you were not
>missing for long. The Spirit site officially opens in June, although
>some services will be made available before then. The current page is
>just a simple page containing basic project information. The "Links"
>button will not have the same function as the site evolves.
>
>The Spirit partners are: Minoru (FR), Conecta (IT) and Sistema (IT).
>
>The recent call for partners by our firm was for another potential
>project unrelated to Spirit. There is no funding guaranteed for this
>project.
>
>The Spirit plans will be published on the Spirit website within a couple
>of weeks. We see the Spirit website as a complementary effort to
>LinuxMedNews because the readership is different and the services are
>different.
>
>The Spirit portal is targeted at three very specific target groups. I'll
>attempt a U.S. translation of who these groups are:
>
>1) Health care informatics innovators: Research scientists in healthcare
>computing and interested vendors and individuals.
>2) Informatics policy makers: The folks who write the HIPPA and FDA
>guidelines.
>3) Regional care network management: Executives and managers of managed
>care organizations.
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but the LinuxMedNews site seems aimed at a
>young technical audience with an interest in health care technology and
>open source.
>
>Also, there is no budget or plans in the Spirit project to write news
>articles about our community and this is the primary activity of
>LinuxMedNews. There is a customizable portal page that will show
>headlines from selected news feeds. I hope to include LinuxMedNews among
>the choices, so this should generate traffic to your site. We will
>generate our own news feeds related to new software releases in the
>index, and other events on the site, but these are automated services.
>
>I hope this helps explain things.
>
>--
>Brian Bray
>Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL
>The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com
>
>3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France
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>
>
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