On Friday, November 25, 2011 02:05:11 AM Simon Slater wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:02:42 susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your interest.
> We are still lacking contributors so your help is appreciated.
>
> Fedora Medical is still not available in a spin form, however, you
> can find the packages:
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673841
>
>
> Thanks.
Specifically what sort of work is left to be done? Is there a to-do site
with progress etc?
I am no coder, but may be able to do some things, or get an employee to
do some. With 100 things to do, 101 doesn'tmake much difference I suppose
...
Dependending on what impact you would like to make there are many aspects left
open.
if you want to target administrators: make it possible to install software
available already. In other words provide packages for as many software
proeducts in this field as possible. The more software packages are there the
more attractive any distribution will be to the enduser. There has been great
effort to get this started
if you want to target developers: find ways to make the platform attractive.
Create and maintain any environment and infrastructe plus workflow where
potential packagers and developers will get started quickly. Most of the time
this involves collecting ressources available already and making them
available in one central space (webpage and whatnot)
if you want to target endusers:
solicit feedback from endusers who do not even know there is software for them
available. Make them aware of the platform and software. Get the word out. Ask
them which software they would like most and put priority on getting this
packaged. Create an easy to use test environment. Provide Fedora spins,
videos, vmware images - anything that will enable a user to testdrive your
"product" without getting turned away by complex technical hurdles.
But if you really want to make a difference for healthcare put effort into
getting people from different distributions together to share their work.
Currently we are duplicating work in Debian-med, Fedora-medical and openSUSE-
medical. What a waste of human ressources.
GNU/Linux definetly needs one common packages format.
Regards,
Sebastian