Re: [Gnumed-devel] FAQ

[Jim Busser]

On Mar 15, 2004, at 12:21 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > What is GnuMed?
> >
> > GnuMed is a group of practising physicians, programmers and free
> > software enthusiasts from around the world, committed to provide a
> > superior, free software solution for community practice. Using
> > tried-and-true technology, GnuMed software will start out having
> > record-keeping, but will eventually cover all aspects of medical
> > practice, and will interface well with 3rd-party software. Technical
> > speaking, it tries to do things "cleanly", but takes a pragmatic 
> > rather
> > than purist approach. Currently, data is accessed via business objects
> > implemented in Python directly accessing the PostgreSQL RDBMS, but 
> > will
> > access various types of data stores such as RDBMS' or LDAP.
> I am afraid thtat this wording implies we are a huge group developers.
well, we could say GnuMed is a HANDFUL...  committed to EVENTUALLY 
provide ;-)
...but the issue may now adequately be covered by the FAQ 'When will 
GnuMed be ready" which I have with the other FAQs as one giant FAQ at 
gnumed.org
- I await Tony to resolve a problem at gnumed.org to do with grouping 
and sorting before splitting them up

> he was fooled into thinking that Gnumed
> was more complete by screenshots and Knoppix-CDs. Guess that's my 
> fault.
I agree the screenshots make it look like it is at a much more 
developed stage than is the case

> Do we have a site where we list features ? It's obviuosly not enough 
> to tell
> people that Gnumed does not not do much yet. It's too fuzzy.
> We might need to establish a feature matrix and use green and red to 
> indicate
> what is there and what is not.
- this is a good idea and can perhaps be incorporated into the roadmap 
on the wiki
- when I get a chance I or someone can hyperlink the topics at the top 
of the roadmap to the detail text below
- maybe we can then revise the topics into a table format with the 
table constructed to distinguish 0.1 from future functions