Obviously I would love to help, as an intial committee member, or in any other fashion as appropriate.
I think we should not start a new mailing list. The openhealth list has the same goals as the OSHCA organization, and already has considerable membership. By the same token I would advise the we not set up a blog. Rather we should ask Ignacio to revive the OSCHA section of LinuxMedNews. We should not attempt to create a journal, rather we should use JOSMC http://www.josmc.org/ Frankly we have too little resources as it is, I would recommend that exactly none attempt to compete with exisiting projects. It seems, from the responses to working with the oswg, that the internaltional nature of OSHCA is critical. If that is true, then we should make that an intentional focus since no such organization like that exisits. Ultimately what we need to move our community forward is collaboration, publicity, research, development, and, most important, funding to make everything else happen. At least those are the goals of OSHCA as I see them. What does everyone else think? If we could draft a quick mission statement, we might be able to narrow our focus and increase our probablity for success. Regards, Fred Trotter On 11/9/05, Molly Cheah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fred, > > I agree I need a host of other things beyond expression of support. I > wasn't sure if there is even interest in reviving OSHCA. I believe the > OSHCA mailling at linuxmedicalnews is no longer there.... I was hoping > to pool opinions on the "what next" during this meet in Tunis as well as > from this list as expressed and prioritise them. Remember there will be > lots of opinions and different ones too, including disagreements .... > :). So I'm taking one step at a time. I would also like to survey the > interests of the funding agencies especially the UN agencies which will > no doubt be entrusted to meet the MDGs' set targets to see where OSHCA > would fit in best to deliver. > > So, keep the ideas and opinions coming in, including volunteering for > the initial committee. (You can e-mail me privately if you are shy). > I'll collate them while on the road or better still if somebody can do > that while I'm on the way (long hours to get there...) and e-mail me, > I'll be most pleased. > > Rgds, > Molly > Fred Trotter wrote: > > >Molly, > >It seems like you have gotten quite a few more than 4 emails! But I think > >you mean that you need more help then just votes of support! > > > >Could you tell us what you do need? If you were to take the lead and > simply > >sort out what needs to be done I am sure that different members of this > >group could donate the help! Do we need hosting? Fund raising? Should we > put > >out the call for an informal intial board? A conference would be a great > >initial step, is there a way to get that to happen cheaply? Should we > start > >with some kind of virtual conference? > > > >Give us some direction and we might be able to give you some help. > > > >Regards, > >Fred Trotter > > > > > >I need more than 4 e-mails expressing support..... :) > > > > > >>Rgds, > >> > >>Molly > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/W4wwlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
