Peter, Does the OSWG have a budget for invited presentations? One of the first on my list would be Prof. von Hippel of MIT to present a recent paper in his investigations into "Democratizing Innovation." A lot of his work is based on close observations of the Apache Project, but he also does a good job generalizing the open source effect beyond software, which I think is a potent part f the open source message: it is not just software, it is a disruptive form of rapid and comprehensive collaboration. We also have a lot of depth on the bench directly within in the AMIA OSWG -- Bill Lober, Mike Hogarth, etc.
I think an OS track gives us the opportunity to stretch the discussion to attract mainstream informatics attendees. If we have a bit of funding we may be able to offer slate of fairly provocative presentations. [wr] - - - - - - - - On Mar 19, 2006, at 1:54 AM, Peter wrote: > The following is part of reply to a mesage Tim Churches sent me - I > thought it would be useful to discuss on the AMIA OSWG list too. > > Peter > > > Hi, Tim - > > good question on OS activities at medinfo2007. ............. > > I think we should aim for something substantial at medinfo2007 in the > free/libre open source area - we can at least get an IMIA OSWG > activity > of some kind, which we can open to any medinfo2007 attendees, but it > might be useful to see if we can get enough momentum and interest to > maybe have a full day or so 'in conjunction with medinfo2007' or > similar > phrasing for as many groups and individuals as are interested. > > I have to confess that the IMIA OSWG has not been as active in > organising events and things as I had hoped we might be - for various > reasons, but when I did try and pull together a 'critical mass' of > things for MIE2005, I did not get much response from people. > > I will be seeing Joan Edgcumbe from HISA here at our UK health > informatics event over the next few days - if I get the chance, I will > sound out with her possibilities and processes. > > So - I am all for trying to get something together - we need, at a > minimun, to encourage FLOSS submissions (papers, panels, tutorials, > workshops, etc) as part of the normal processes of papers etc for a > scientific event; that way, we may be able to get a clearly > identifiable > track/stream. We should be able to get some. I am keen to try and do > more than this as well. > > Let's see what interest we can generate by getting a message out to > the > various OS/FLOSS group lists and then see where we can take things > - we > will probably need a 'loose coalition' of people to push things among > the various groups. > > Cheers, Peter Murray > Chair, IMIA OSWG > > > > > > Tim.Churches wrote: > > Will Ross wrote: > >> HISA >> >> http://www.medinfo2007.org/100049.php >> >> > > Yeah, I'm a member of HISA (hmmm, better pay my dues...), but does > anyone know of anyone organising or planning to organise an open > source > event in the context of MedInfo 2007? I suppose I should ask Peter > Murray, Graham Wright and Jan Vejvalka directly - in May 2005 Peter > Murray noted on the IMIA Open Source Working Group Web site (see > http://www.chirad.info/imiaoswg/ ): > > "3. It is not too early to start thinking about IMIA OSWG > activities for > MIE2006, medinfo2007, and other conferences. We would like to hold > OSWG/OSNI activities at other conferences/events and have been > exploring > various possibilities; more news when we have anything to report. " > > Peter, Jan or Graham: any open sourcery planned for MedInfo 2007 in > Brisbane? > > Tim C > > _______________________________________________ > os-wg mailing list > os-wg@mailman.amia.org > http://mailman.amia.org/mailman/listinfo/os-wg > [wr] - - - - - - - - will ross project manager mendocino informatics 216 west perkins street, suite 206 ukiah, california 95482 usa 707.272.7255 [voice] 707.462.5015 [fax] www.minformatics.com - - - - - - - - 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/
