[openhealth] Geneva Forum - Towards Global Access to Health

2006-03-29 Thread Molly Cheah
> > > *GENEVA** FORUM - TOWARDS GLOBAL ACCESS TO HEALTH - * > > > > *August 30- September 1st, 2006* > > *International Conference Centre of Geneva, Switzerland* > > > > Website: website: http://www.hcuge.ch/genevahealthforum > > > > THEMES: > > Access to health systems, Access to drugs, vacc

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Fred Trotter
I think what Will, Molly, Tim and others are suggesting is that we allow Molly to register the organization were it is most convient for her, (since she has been the one pushing for this) and then allowing the organization itself to consider registering or not registering OSHCA in other places on a

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread David Forslund
Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > Molly, > > > > Incorporating OSHCA in the US doesn't necessarily imply US domination. > > No, but US citizens need to be sensitive to the negative feelings > towards the US which are present and growing in many countries around > the world. Whether t

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Molly Cheah
Brian, In not underestimating the importance of the Minoru mail archives, can these be saved into a hard disk (40 or 80 G), since this is too big for the yahoo archive limit? I already have some pledges of financial support privately from some members and we can afford to purchase this harddisk

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Schilling
And let me clarify. There is NO reason, in my mind, why we can't set up a U.S. component NOW and still have OSCHA based in Malaysia. Richard Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, sen

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Schilling
Like I said, Will, the protem committees have undermined themselves over the years. No reflection on Molly. Hopefully things will progress for you all now. I'm not undermining Molly's work. If anything Minoru's lack of initiative to create a stand alone organization and transfer the OSHCA n

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
I checked mailarchive.com and it is still operational...but don't know how far back it goes. Joseph Brian Bray wrote: > There have been 12928 messages. At a rough guess, this would consume > most of the storage capacity at Yahoo to have in a searchable format. > Some form of protection for email

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Brian Bray
There have been 12928 messages. At a rough guess, this would consume most of the storage capacity at Yahoo to have in a searchable format. Some form of protection for email addresses in the archive would need to be in place to prevent mining and spam. The existing archive at mail-archive.com wi

Re: [openhealth] OSHCA web portal.

2006-03-29 Thread Heitzso
On a techie note, CivicSpace or some combination of Drupal and modules may be useful. CivicSpace is geared to support this type of web portal. It still takes futzing with, but comes with a lot of functionality built in. My biggest complaint is it doesn't work with PHP 5 yet. http://civicspac

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Tim.Churches
Thomas Beale wrote: > Tim.Churches wrote: > > David Forslund wrote: > > > Molly, > > > > > > Incorporating OSHCA in the US doesn't necessarily imply US domination. > > > > No, but US citizens need to be sensitive to the negative feelings > > towards the US which are present and growing in ma

[openhealth] [Fwd: [CAnet - news] IEEE Workshop on Workflow for Scientific Applications]

2006-03-29 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
Thought folks might find this of interest. Joseph Original Message Subject: [CAnet - news] IEEE Workshop on Workflow for Scientific Applications Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:19:22 -0500 From: Bill St.Arnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> F

[openhealth] OSHCA web portal.

2006-03-29 Thread Ignacio Valdes
2. I can help with via free oshca.org hosting and building. 3. has been done many times and suffers from maintenance issues because it is tedious to do over many years and people do not update their own project information much even if empowered to do so. 4. and 5. I can provide the web resourc

[openhealth] Re: OSHCA Incorporation

2006-03-29 Thread Wayne WIlson
Extract from Molly's summary of rationale: >From: Molly Cheah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Important announcement and oshca update > > ...I thought we were approaching this issue > (developing vs developed countries) from the funding perspectives (not > mentioning developing countries'

[openhealth] Names not related to Spinal Tap or anything like that...

2006-03-29 Thread Will Ross
Names Survey - - - - - - - - Please select the band name most consistent with the dignity of an alliance of professional open source health care software informaticists. [1] Molly and the Protems [2] Molly and the Second Coming [3] Molly and the Malaysians [4] Dr. Cheah's Traveling Me

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Will Ross
Brian, How large is the mail archive of [EMAIL PROTECTED] [wr] - - - - - - - - On Mar 29, 2006, at 4:42 AM, Bhaskar, KS wrote: > Will -- > > Any member of the list can post a compressed archive of the mails > in the > Files area of http://yahoogroups.com/group/openhealth (in a > non-propriet

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > Molly, > > > > Incorporating OSHCA in the US doesn't necessarily imply US domination. > > No, but US citizens need to be sensitive to the negative feelings > towards the US which are present and growing in many countries around > the world. Whether t

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Will Ross
bhaskar, do you think the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" archive will be too large to post as a file at yahoogroups "openhealth" [wr] - - - - - - - - On Mar 29, 2006, at 1:34 AM, Tim.Churches wrote: > Brian Bray wrote: >> Thanks for the welcome, Bhaskar, and also the warm welcome (in every >> sense of

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Will Ross
Richard, As a newcomer to this list you have no basis for your observation. I've been participating since 2002, and I am a great admirer of Molly's efforts. Far from being undermined, I think Molly's Protem Committee is rather clearly the only game in town. Please figure out how to be a

Re: next steps. (was Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update)

2006-03-29 Thread Will Ross
On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Richard Schilling wrote: > I'm simply saying I'll do the work and give OSCHA a physical presence > here, as long as I know there will be people there to sign up. I > don't > want to establish a U.S. presence for OSCHA that has no interest. > Building up an OSCHA pr

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Will -- Any member of the list can post a compressed archive of the mails in the Files area of http://yahoogroups.com/group/openhealth (in a non-proprietary format, of course!), but we have a limit of 20MB. How big would an archive be? -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 06:42 -0600, Will Ross wro

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Tim.Churches
Richard Schilling wrote: > The protem committee taking four years to get this far is a pretty clear > indication that they've undermined themselves. No, Richard. There have been two, quite distinct pro tempore OSHCA committees. The first one, of which I was a member, was working towards incorpora

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Molly Cheah
It is obvious you had not been around the community and don't know what you're talking about. The idea to ressurrect OSHCA was mooted in November 2005 just before the WSIS in Tunis. This protem committee was formed earlier this month and announced to the community on 28/3/2006 in my e-mail titl

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Tim.Churches
David Forslund wrote: > Molly, > > Incorporating OSHCA in the US doesn't necessarily imply US domination. No, but US citizens need to be sensitive to the negative feelings towards the US which are present and growing in many countries around the world. Whether this antipathy towards the US is j

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Schilling
The protem committee taking four years to get this far is a pretty clear indication that they've undermined themselves. Richard Molly Cheah wrote: > Richard, > I would appreciate it if you allow the protem committee to make the > decisions on OSHCA since the community has given us the mandat

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Tim.Churches
Dr Molly Cheah wrote: > >Is OSCHA a religious organization or an independent world-wide > >technological organization accessible to everyone regardless of > >religious conviction? (Tim, you're not making any sense with your "star > >and crescent" comment). > > > > > I think Tim was just bei

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas Beale
Richard Schilling wrote: > OSHCA will need to be incorporated in every country it has a presence. > It's a question of where you start, really. The origin of incorporation > also affects how that company can behave when operating overseas. wellmaybe. We incorporated openEHR Foundation in the U

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas Beale
Molly Cheah wrote: > David, > There "is" and not "may be" because there are legal frameworks (acts of > parliament) that governs corporations, civil societies, unions etc. If > OSHCA is to be my organisation, I would have it up in 3 days (not one as > suggested by Richard). My timeline of 3 months

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-29 Thread Tim.Churches
Brian Bray wrote: > Thanks for the welcome, Bhaskar, and also the warm welcome (in every > sense of the word) I've received from many others. > > Also, thank you for creating this list. The list software at > minoru-development.com was and is broken- you took the right step to > keep this incredib

U.S. issues - Australian FTA (was Re: next steps. (was Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update))

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Schilling
Molly Cheah wrote: > See this. http://www.samba.org/~tridge/fta_statement.html I read this. It's an opinion piece, not a legal analysis. And quite frankly it's well, written by a confused person. This FTA protects your open source software, regardless of whether or not you wrote it for

Re: [openhealth] sumultaneous registrations and registration form

2006-03-29 Thread Molly Cheah
Richard, I would appreciate it if you allow the protem committee to make the decisions on OSHCA since the community has given us the mandate to resurrect OSHCA. Otherwise I feel that you're undermining our efforts. I don't understand why suddenly you're in such a hurry. Like many others, Tim Co

Re: next steps. (was Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update)

2006-03-29 Thread Molly Cheah
See this. http://www.samba.org/~tridge/fta_statement.html The US normally uses these Free Trade Agreements to backdoor their legislation into the legislation of the target nations. this has happened previously in Chile, Australia for starters with every nation who’s signed the FTA being subject