Fighting AIDS with open source
I met last week-end with folks (Paul and Burke) from the OpenMRS project during the Google Summer of Code mentor summit. Their project is important as it tries to provide an open source platform for managing medical records for economically dis-advantaged countries — such as African countries — and to bring their modest contributions to fight serious diseases such as AIDS.
It makes all of our work as software developers –open source or closed source– look futile and misplaced.
I found out they used a lot Eclipse BIRT and are on the lookout for a visual XForms editor to create new forms for medical records.
I thought it would be awesome if we could do some collaboration together around a visual XForms editor.
Such an editor would be open source –of course– , fit within the Visual Editor project charter and even better it would be coding for a good cause.
I am calling out for volunteers that could be interested to make something like that happen.
If member companies would want to contribute in kind or resources to help (resources are always better, unless you have a visual XForms editor for Eclipse to contribute), that would be awesome.
If you are interested, please join the ve-dev mailing list @ Eclipse.
Posted October 12th, 2007 by Philippe Ombredanne in category: community, eclipse, good, google soc, openmrs, visual editor
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