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[Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

woooh!! So we have a new DHIS Newsletter... If someone can also add
implementation stories/news and send it to Bob, nothing like it!!

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Regards,
Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
Director R & D, HISP India
Health Information Systems Programme

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2009/5/15 Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>

> OK.  I will attempt a weekly round up.  Because of the relatively high
> frequency the content will be short mostly consisting of links.  I
> will use Cameron Laird's example here -
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/9986800b92ce96be - as
> my guide.  Notice there are only 8 news items.
>
> Look out for a mail with subject line DHIS2-URL! sometime between
> Sunday and Monday.
>
> Regards
> Bob
>
> 2009/5/14 Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Never read Carl Fogel's advice before but I have to find myself
> >> agreeing with him.  I am a mailing list person.
> >>
> >> Still Ola is right - there is a whole lot of stuff happening on
> >> launchpad and elsewhere which we need to track.  One approach is an
> >> ancient one adopted by the tcl project (still the greatest little
> >> programming language ever invented) where some one of us takes the
> >> responsibility once a week to write a short summary of DHIS2
> >> happenings to this list - http://wiki.tcl.tk/228.  Any new blueprints.
> >>  Changes to existing ones.  Summary of interesting discussions.  Great
> >> bugs which were squashed etc.  The tcl community have weekly archives
> >> going back to 1998 of messages with a subject line "Tcl-URL".  It has
> >> worked very well and has been copied by many projects.
> >>
> >> The idea is that someone does it for a month or two then passes on the
> >> baton.
> >>
> >> Any takers?  I will give it a go if no one else wants to, though maybe
> >> someone who has been with the project longer would do it better.
> >
> > I like this idea Bob. Lars has tried something similar with the
> Development
> > Update mail, but that is not frequent enough and I haven't seen it for a
> > while.
> > We are quite poor at communicating new ideas (blueprints), features
> > implemented (commit mails so not always give the full picture), work in
> > progress etc and this has consequences around the network. People are
> facing
> > the same problems in different countries and often end of with
> duplicating
> > efforts due to poor communication across borders. I definely support this
> > weekly summary e-mail and think you're an excellent candidate Bob to get
> > this off the ground. If you miss out on something I am sure others can
> fill
> > in with replies to the summary mail, so no need to worry about not being
> in
> > the project long enough. Great initiative!
> >
> > Ola
> > ---------
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Bob
> >>
> >> 2009/5/14 Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > We should follow Carl Fogel's advice and follow discussion only on
> >> > mailing
> >> > lists... Blueprints could act as outcome of those discussion or to
> >> > summarize
> >> > discussions
> >> >
> >> > ... And there are better ways to see the roadmap than what launchpad
> is
> >> > showing us :(
> >> >
> >> > ---
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
> >> > Director R & D, HISP India
> >> > Health Information Systems Programme
> >> >
> >> > My Tech Blog:  http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com
> >> > You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 2009/5/14 Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> Launchpad does not send out e-mails to the list when new blueprints
> >> >> (feature requests, design ideas) are created  like it does when new
> >> >> bugs are
> >> >> reported. Although its perfectly possible to follow the blueprints by
> >> >> visiting the launchpad pages I have a feeling that we are loosing out
> >> >> on a
> >> >> lot of important discussions here.
> >> >>
> >> >> So here is a reminder to those of you that are interested in
> following
> >> >> and
> >> >> influencing the DHIS development that you should monitor changes to
> >> >> this
> >> >> page:
> >> >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2
> >> >>
> >> >> If blueprints are administered properly (release series and
> milestonse
> >> >> being set) this page gives a more roadmap like view:
> >> >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/trunk/+specs?show=all
> >> >> (Especially if you click two times on the Milestone column heading to
> >> >> sort
> >> >> by milestone.)
> >> >>
> >> >> I feel some of the more important blueprints should be discussed on
> the
> >> >> list and not only using the blueprint window in launchpad, what do
> >> >> others
> >> >> think about this?
> >> >> Maybe a good practice could be to write an e-mail to the list after
> >> >> registering a blueprint, to let people know about it and invite to a
> >> >> list
> >> >> discussion/feedback round?
> >> >> I guess not all blueprints are worth discussing, but then again, it's
> a
> >> >> big heterogeneous network and we do not really know what all the
> others
> >> >> are
> >> >> interested in either...
> >> >>
> >> >> best regards,
> >> >> Ola Hodne Titlestad
> >> >> HISP
> >> >> University of Oslo
> >> >>
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