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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brajesh,

Sorry if my cross-posting offended you, please see my responses below:

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Brajesh Murari
<brajesh2ndirari@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> hi Knut,
>
> I extremly apologise for writing this but i want to know some thing,
> 1. Are you advertising OpenMRS on DHIS2 mailing list...!
>

No. I have been forwarding messages that I find relevant to the people on
this list, though I have cut down.


> 2. Do you think DHIS2 community need to track OpenMRS community
> activities..
>

Definitely, especially in places like India (and elsewhere) where both
systems are in use. But also because I think there is a lot to be learnt
(both ways) from the developments in two quite similar open communities in
the same (health) space, but with mostly different focus. You seem to feel
that there is mainly antagonism and competition between the two projects -
which is not how I see it. While I do think some competition is healthy, I
see the relationship as much more complementary and potentially mutually
beneficial, both in terms of learning (since similar technologies are in
use) and in terms of integration and collaboration. An example is the module
that can aggregate data in  OpenMRS into an SDMX message which DHIS2 can
import.

3. Do you think DHIS2 api and application architecture is not so powerful
> than OpenMRS one ....!
>

You are reading far too much into this. I think they are quite different,
but there are hopefully enough similarities that we can learn something. I
think DHIS2 has reached an excellent stage now, but of course we always
strive to improve further. In this particular instance, I was happy to see
the REST webservice API as well as the new standalone instance of OpenMRS
which works on all major operating systems, and was hoping it could be of
inspiration to us - in the spirit of openness and sharing. I am not
suggesting we  imitate - but I think it is good to be aware.  However,
people can of course subscribe to the OpenMRS lists themselves if they are
interested, so I will be more restrictive with crossposting.

Knut

On Sat
>


> t, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Darius Jazayeri <djazayeri@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:38 AM
>> Subject: [OPENMRS-DEV] Alpha Release of REST Web Services Module
>> To: openmrs-devel-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> One of our main goals <http://roadmap.openmrs.org/> for OpenMRS this year
>> is to build up a web services API for external clients to use.  Step 1 was
>> to create the framework and satisfy a few basic use cases<https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Web+Service+1.0+User+Stories>.
>> We have accomplished this and now are releasing an alpha version to the
>> community for additional testing and feature requests as we head towards a
>> 1.0 release later this year.
>>
>> *Download the module for your OpenMRS installation: (you must be running
>> OpenMRS 1.8.1+)*
>> http://modules.openmrs.org/modules/view.jsp?module=webservices.rest
>>
>> *Download a standalone OpenMRS instance with this module already
>> installed:*
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmrs/files/prereleases/OpenMRS_1.8.1_Web_Services_Alpha/
>>
>> *Documentation starting point: *
>> https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Webservices.rest+Module
>>
>> *API docs for client developers*
>> https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/REST+Web+Services+API
>>
>> *JIRA project for bugs and feature requests:*
>> https://tickets.openmrs.org/browse/RESTWS
>>
>> We're really looking forward to your feedback.
>>
>> -Ben, Darius, and the rest of the OpenMRS team members that put a lot of
>> effort into the module
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>> Cheers,
>> Knut Staring
>>
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>
> --
> Regards,
> Brajesh
>
>
>


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Cheers,
Knut Staring