[Gnumed-devel] Re: Invitation to LinuxMed 2005

[Tim Churches]

Dr. Jorge R Rodriguez wrote:

> Dear Tim. Thanks for your reply. Is a pleasure to
> contact you.
>  
Thank you for replying so promptly. I have CCed this reply to teh GNUmed 
project mailing list as they also received an invitation to participate 
and had the same same or similar questions as I did.

> Linuxmed 2005 try to represent all health fields, so
> epidemiology is one of this and public health is of
> real important in our countries. 
>  
OK, good to know that. I suspected that the apparent focus on hospital 
medical informatics was an oversight, rather than by design.

> I know netepi sionce last years because I am
> epidemiologist in the Jasovich Group in Argentina
> (www.grupojasovich.com.ar) a Clinical Research Unit.  
>  
OK. We will be releasing new versions of NetEpi in the next few weeks - 
a beta release of the Web-based data collection tool, and a further 
developmental release of the anlaysis tool, which should have lots of 
applications in clinical epidemiology as well as population health 
epidemiology (which is my field).

> We are making this congress with the experience of
> Cardiology Virtual Congress already done since 2000.
>
> You must found information in these URLs:
>
> http://www.fac.org.ar/tcvc/
> http://www.fac.org.ar/cvirtual/index.htm
> http://www.fac.org.ar/scvc/index2.htm
>
> These are the URLs from the last Virtual Cardiology
> Congresses over Internet that was susscesfully.
>
> We are working together with the committees of these
> congress, LinuxMed 2005 and the Fourth Cardiology
> Congress will be planed to be in the same time and
> with the same platform, opensource of course
> (BSD+Apache+PHP+MySQL).
>
> You can find information about the 4th cardiology
> congress here. 
> http://www.fac.org.ar/ccvc 
>
> About virtual conference I mean: you prepare your
> lecture, following the material specification that you
> would found in biolinux.fac.org.ar/linuxmed, and then
> we upload to web in the right week in regrading the
> final program. 
>
> The material we receive from author, regarding the
> author copyright, we will put into the congress over
> Internet and will be accesible for all professionals
> that will be participating in the congress. This
> material belongs to the authors and will in LinuxMed
> 2005 without any modifications.
>  
OK. I was confused by the term "congress" - I thought there might be 
live Web broadcasts or similar. Will there be any interactive component? 
Web chat or IRC, perhaps?

> But you can make suggestion or help us in your
> experience to make the right decission. What do you
> think that is the best licence for documents? FDL? Any
> other?  
>  
I susggest that you look at the way BioMed central (an open access 
biomedical publisher - see http://www.biomedcentral.com) handles 
licensing - they use one of the Creative Commons licenses, which seems 
very appropriate.

> The only objetive for LinuxMed is the difussion of
> free and opensource health care applications
> information for over the people, (Linuxmed is
> absolutelly free of charge for everybody). 
>  
It sounds like an excellent virtual gathering.

> Tim, We have a strong fight everyday here, in our
> countries, trying to do the difussion of opensource
> into government, into hospitals, into people mind,
> withiout any money, any support, and all our heart.
> We don't pursuit any other objectives that to make a
> better health care for people that have very bad
> situation here. 
>  
yes, the open source battle is teh same in all countruies, I think, but 
of course the differences in health and accessible health care between 
countries and between sectors of the population within countries differs 
greatly around the world. But many people (including me) now think that 
open source in health will have the greatest impact in developing and 
transitional countries, whereas the battle for health software in 
developed countries has already been lost to the large commercial 
companies to a large degree.

> Please, feel free to make suggestions, comments or all
> that you want to do. We don't have you experience, our
> reality is different, and we respect your opinions too
> much. Thanks for your reply. 
>  
Perhaps you could approach Biomed central about publishing abstracts 
from the Congress? They offer such a service - see 
http://www.biomedcentral.com/meetings/ - I am not sure how much they 
charge for this, but you may be able to negotiate a free or very cheap 
del with them since teh Congres is being hosted in a transitional 
country. Teh advantage is greater permanance of the abstracts because 
they are deposited in PubMed central as well as three European 
repositories, and also indexing in PubMed (although you should check 
that - I think the abstracts are achived in PubMed central and indexed 
in Pubmed, but I am not certain).

Finally, yes, I will be delighted to submit a paper to your congress, 
but I will probably need to wait until just before teh deadline to 
submit it, because we are very busy over the next 6 or 7 weeks.

Regards,

Tim C

> Sincerely,
>
> Dr. Jorge Rodriguez (JR)
>
>
> --- Tim Churches <address@hidden> escribió:
>
>  
>
> > Jorge Raul Rodriguez wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Message body follows:
> > >
> > > Dear Sir
> > >
> > > We are glad to invite your Team to LinuxMed 2005,
> > >      
> > to give us
> >    
> >
> > > a Conference about NetEpi Project.
> > >
> > > First Virtual World Congress of Health Free and
> > >      
> > Libre
> >    
> >
> > > Opensource Software
> > >
> > > September 1st - November 30th, 2005
> > >  
> > >
> > > Introduction:
> > >
> > > LinuxMed 2005 is a virtual congress over Internet
> > >      
> > with the
> >    
> >
> > > objective to 
> > > join all developers and companies with free and
> > >      
> > libre
> >    
> >
> > > opensource software 
> > >
> > > and products to share their experiencies in health
> > >      
> > care
> >    
> >
> > > institutions.
> > >
> > > LinuxMed 2005 is developing in association with
> > >      
> > the FCVC
> >    
> >
> > > Fourth Cardiology 
> > >
> > > Virtual Congress over Internet, the most important
> > > international meeting in 
> > >
> > > this field every two years. LinuxMed is organized
> > >      
> > by
> >    
> >
> > > BioLinux Group, a 
> > >
> > > representative of free and opensource software
> > >      
> > into
> >    
> >
> > > Latinamerica, CETIFAC 
> > >
> > > (Tele-informatics Center of Argentine Cardiology
> > >      
> > Federation)
> >    
> >
> > > and LAD 
> > >
> > > (opensource e-learning system developed by
> > >      
> > TuxSys). 
> >    
> >
> > > Objectives:
> > >
> > > The health needs the free and opensource software
> > >      
> > for
> >    
> >
> > > growing and give a 
> > >
> > > better medical care, specially in the limited
> > >      
> > resources
> >    
> >
> > > hospitals. We are 
> > >
> > > walking this way since 1997 and trying to give the
> > >      
> > most
> >    
> >
> > > great difussion to 
> > >
> > > GNU/Linux and their apps for hospitals. 
> > > The exprience begun with LinuxMed 2002, developed
> > >      
> > by
> >    
> >
> > > BioLinux Group, from 
> > >
> > > July 1st to 3rd, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Now,
> > >      
> > we go for
> >    
> >
> > > more, we go for 
> > >
> > > an International difussion and for to share our
> > >      
> > experiences
> >    
> >
> > > with all the 
> > >
> > > world... for a better World! For a better Health
> > >      
> > care systems!
> >    
> >
> > > Authorities of LinuxMed 2005: 
> > >  
> > > President
> > > Jorge Raul Rodriguez, M.D. BioLinux Group Founder
> > >  
> > > Vice-President
> > > Prof. Armando Pacher, M.D. CETIFAC Director
> > >      
> > Teleinformatics
> >    
> >
> > > Committee
> > >  
> > > Secretary
> > > Alberto Menini, M.D. 
> > > Medical Coordinator of BioLinux Group
> > >  
> > > Honorable President Eng. Diego Saravia. 
> > > President of LinuxMed 2002.    
> > >
> > >  
> > > Tematic Program:
> > >  
> > > Opensource software introduction in health.
> > >
> > > Why do we use opensource in health institutions?
> > >
> > > Integration and implementation of opensource in
> > >      
> > health
> >    
> >
> > > enviroments.
> > >
> > > Integration of opensource into desktop.
> > >
> > > Migration to opensource platform in health
> > >      
> > institutions. 
> >    
> >
> > > Opensource developments and apps used now in
> > >      
> > health.
> >    
> >
> > > Future strategies for opensopurce implementation
> > >      
> > into health.
> >    
> >
> > > Invitation:
> > >
> > > We invite you to participate in LinuxMed 2005
> > >      
> > sharing your
> >    
> >
> > > experience in the 
> > >
> > > opensource development and implementation. Please,
> > >      
> > see the
> >    
> >
> > > instructions for 
> > >
> > > lectures here. Death line is June 30th, 2005. For
> > >      
> > more
> >    
> >
> > > information contact 
> > >
> > > us address@hidden 
> > >
> > > Dr. Jorge Rodriguez
> > > Biolinux Group Founder
> > > President of LinuxMed 2005
> > > address@hidden
> > > http://www.biolinux.org.ar
> > >      
> > I have read the information (in English) on your Web
> > site. I have a few
> > questions:
> >
> > 1. It seems that the theme of your conference is
> > only on hospital
> > informatics? Our NetEpi project focuses on public
> > health (population
> > health) problems, although the tools may have use in
> > hospitals.
> >
> > 2. It seems that you intend to publish the submitted
> > papers or lectures
> > somewhere. Where? What are the copyright
> > arrangements for such
> > publication? Do authors need to assign copyright to
> > LinuxMed 2005 or can
> > we just provide a non-exclusive license of papers
> > and lectures to your
> > organisation for publication? If the latter (which
> > is standard practice
> > for open access scientific publication), which
> > license do you suggest?
> >
> > 3. Will lectures be delivered "live" over the
> > Internet, and if so, using
> > what technology, and at what times? (Important since
> > I am in Australia,
> > which is in a raher different time zone to yours.)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tim C
> >
> >    
>
>
>