Re: [Gnumed-devel] A Proposal for Gnumed: Rites of Passage

[J Busser]

At 10:38 PM +1100 3/13/05, catmat wrote:
> > catmat wrote:
> >
> > > Why is money being thrown at a reinvention of oscar?
> >
> > Um, I thought we were talking about funding the completion of GnuMed.
> > That's what the subject line says...
> if it's gnumed, I might put in some money to get to 0.1 and beyond quickly.
> Not sure if someone independent needs to act as the client stakeholder though,

So far we are 10-20% toward supporting Horsts' 30,000 proposal or 
~2%+ toward the 200,000 proposal. Would $230,000 to do both be at 
crossed purposes?

Whether Horst's proposal to take time off to get something done was 
to be provocative or deadly serious (it could be the latter) is 
helpful to have us define how a plan could work. The $30,000 plan 
would be more manageable to define than the $200,000 though the same 
principles should apply.

If we first consider Horst's $30,000 proposal

- would it be to re-do GnuMed-mini (which is what I think he is 
proposing) or to get 0.1 out the door?
- if gnumed-mini, how could it be done so as to have the work assist 
gnumed-main (or would it not be possible except software engineering 
concepts, and lessons learned with the software tools, that could 
benefit gnumed-main)
- if Horst's focus would be on coding, is it useful for others to try 
to schedule their volunteer/hobby time, for that "month", to try to 
be available to Horst, assist his decisions and maybe do 
documentation either in-line as they alpha/beta test his code or 
separately on the wiki if it is Horst who, during the active coding, 
is the only one who should be making at least *some* in-line 
documentation
- any of course, we would have to map out the deliverables (what 
there is agreement that we want/need) i.e. imperative to do before 
Horst would get started