Re: [Gnumed-devel] gnumed ideas 0.1 and post-0.1

[Richard Terry]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 06:24 am, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > The rest have either had public or commercial (enterprise) funding,
> > yes? And though drug ref may not be "funded" (I am not sure), it has
> > had help from OSCAR (and possibly other agencies) which is/are funded.
>
> Funding isn't sufficient. There must also be people to fund.
>
> > At this point I am really envying Wikipedia's help by Google if that
> > goes through. GnuMed surely will need more help to be successful... I
> > worry that if it is only/mainly Karsten, Ian, Carlos with bits of
> > Hilmar, Horst, Andreas then by the time a prototype is workable
> > (three to five years) the landscape may have changed dramatically. No
> > doubt in my mind that GnuMed has *got* to be funded, if not directly,
> > then indirectly (as I hope my pilot can help do if only in a small
> > way, like a packet of crackers before a meal :-)).
> >
> > Have we real disagreement on the point?

Yeah, nice to see my name is not included. 

The main reason a prototype isn't running is that no-one will agree on someone 
to take control, direct the program, decided on a gui, and start making it 
work. 6 Months would kill it if the programming resources were correctly 
aimed.

Regards

Richard

>
> No we don't. (I don't disagree, that is.)
>
> Karsten