Molly, On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 12:54 +0800, Molly Cheah wrote:
> The conference was co-organised by AMDI-USM, MAMPU and OSHCA. Below is > the 2nd meeting attended by myself representing OSHCA. The OSHCA general membership would likely benefit from you announcing it there as well. Why only the committee? Your lack of "openness" continues to exceed expectation. > > It is good to know that you will also support this conference. With > regards to your statement "This could be an opportunity to re-organize > OSHCA Asia if the new board approves it..." there is provision in the > OSHCA Constitution for OSHCA Asia to be formed, regardless of what new > or current board says. But someone has to work on the Rules and > Regulations for the OSHCA chapters to be formed............ I do not think it is "regardless of what new or current board says". The Constitution clearly says that the Board should define those rules. I do not disagree that others can (and should) work on those rules. But, the board has to take action by drafting the rules or calling for others to help draft the rules (which you have just done this past week). Approving the draft. Then adopting them as a board resolution or presenting them to the membership during an Annual General Meeting for adoption as an amendment to the Constitution. > > Have the organising committee finalized the programme objectives, > > session topics etc? How many speakers would you like to have? > Getting > > speakers to come here is not a problem. Perhaps we can have > speakers > > on a HIMS (like VistA), a Public Health Information or tracking > system > > (e.g. CHITS) a disaster management system (like SAHANA), a primary > > care ehr system (like OpenMRS, PrimaCare), open source HL7 enabling > > system like the MIRTH project etc. > > I also find it interesting that you continue to promote PrimaCare as an open source application when it clearly is not available as a free and open source application since you do not allow the users to distribute the application or the source code outside of Malaysia. While I fully respect the rights of PCDOM to not release the software outside of their network. I do object to it being promoted as a FOSS application. Especially when being promoted as such by the President of OSHCA. --Tim -- ****************************************************************************** Timothy W. Cook, MSc Health Informatics Visiting Researcher, Clinical Decision Support Systems Fluminense Federal University, Niterói,RJ Brazil Honorary Research Assistant, CHIME, University College London, London, England, UK ****************************************************************************** [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
