Re: [Gnumed-devel] GnuMed Advocacy

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Karsten

In my fairly brief SWOT analysis of the gnumed project I described one 
of its strengths being its international roots and focus. I think 
Australia is too small to produce enough open source developers with 
knowledge or experience in the medical domain to get gnumed up. It will 
be better for a variety of reasons if it is an international effort and 
I would love to see more input from Asia and South America. Hopefully, 
in the not too distant future we may have funded components of the 
project (from Australia or elsewhere) committing to the CVS. It will be 
important, as you suggest, for the core team to make sure their work has 
international applicability or can be hived off into the locale branch. 
Neveretheless, I don't see this as big issue.

Australian decision support software is based on the international 
Cochrane collaboration so I presume that would have widespread 
acceptability throughout the world. N'est-ce pas?

David


Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> Dear GnuMedders,
>
> I am very excited about and supportive of the prospective
> "official" support GNUmed may be getting in Australia.
>
> At the same time i want to raise a cautionary voice on behalf
> of the international GNUmed community. I would like to ask all
> active developers to not make design and implementation
> decisions based on Australian requirements and needs only.
> This would greatly hamper GNUmed's applicability in other
> countries which would be a great shame.
>
> I am not asking you to write GNUmed-Germany for me. I am
> asking you to consider things from a larger point of view and
> to listen to and take seriously funny noises from Up Over and
> elsewhere. This may be tough going these days as ministeries
> and national organisations are wont to care less about
> anything outside Oz.
>