Re: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - a review

2006-01-15 Thread Philippe AMELINE
Hi Joseph, Could you tell me what incorporation mean, so I can understand why, to the question what happens if that person leaves the organization?, the simple answer the organization finds someone else is not valid ? Cheers, Philippe PS : Christian, you can count me for Oshca, since I

Re: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - a review

2006-01-15 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
Incorporation is the establishment of an organization as a legal entitye,g, in France a company with SRL appended to its name has legal status. You don't have to incorporate in many countries to be a companyyou can be a sole proprietorbut this applies to individuals only. The

Re: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - a review

2006-01-15 Thread Will Ross
Christian, Molly All, I'm neutral on the issue of incorporation. If it can help then I'm for it. But I don't want the discussion on incorporation to distract us from the possibility of convening our next OSHCA conference. I'm a strong advocate of having our next OSCHA Conference, with

Re: [openhealth] OSS collections

2006-01-15 Thread Adrian Midgley
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 10:43 +1100, Tim.Churches wrote: A wiki or simple online database could be used to collect links to scientific papers and even web sites and blog entries which similarly make reference to the use of open source in health. ... However, I think that some sort of

Re: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - a review

2006-01-15 Thread Dr Molly Cheah
Will, When we're discussing resurrecting OSHCA, we're going beyond organising conferences, which organisations like IMIA,AMIA or any organisations advocating open source can do from time to time. We've also gone beyond the debate on the need for incorporation; the issues, pros and cons are in

Re: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - a review

2006-01-15 Thread Fred Trotter
I think that Will actually is proposing a vision, one which I whole-heartedly agree. The vision is that OSCHA is a vehicle for people to meet. This list is the best source of meeting of the minds I have found but is nothing compared to face to face. That is really what we do not have... Regards,

Re: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - a review

2006-01-15 Thread Dr Molly Cheah
Proposal so far OSHCA Vision OSCHA is a vehicle for people to meet face to face. Mission?? Objectives??? Molly p.s. Previously, OSHCA The Open Source Health Care Alliance is a collaborative forum to promote and facilitate open source software in human and veterinary healthcare.

Re: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - a review

2006-01-15 Thread Thomas Beale
Fred Trotter wrote: I think that Will actually is proposing a vision, one which I whole-heartedly agree. The vision is that OSCHA is a vehicle for people to meet. This list is the best source of meeting of the minds I have found but is nothing compared to face to face. That is really what

RE: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - a review

2006-01-15 Thread Koray Atalag
Dear all, Regarding the latest issue whether OSHCA will become (yet another) a formal organisation or not reminds me the fact that in my country (Turkey) where negotiation and win-win culture/mentality is still far from reality we end up with many fragmented organizations with the same members

Re: [openhealth] Re: Open Source Clinical Messaging Software

2006-01-15 Thread madhusasidhar
I have a Hl7 parser and messaging toolkit as well a GUI for administration that is written in .NET 2.0. If there is sufficient interest, I contribute it as open source. __ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a