NOTE: there will be no conference call next Wed., Nov. 26th due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.
Call Details
Call recording link:
http://sra.sharedrecords.org/records/05873a4be74e1ceb5cbc47b0567f104a4af576fd.data
These notes also posted at:
http://www.projects.unamesa.org/2008-11-19 &
http://blog.unamesa.org/
Agenda
Academy update - Heather (if any)
Support system for UM technology infrastructure update - Saq
MediaWiki/Wikispaces update - Martin
Forms work update - Saq
Other updates from associates
Participants
- Marianne
- Martin
- Heather
- Greg
- Paul
- Saq
- Eric
Apologies
- Cory (traveling through Nov. 19th)
- Jonathan - conflicting meetings
UM Academy
Heather
- tomorrow we'll have a meeting with AICRC to discuss whether or not they'll implement the forms
- I contacted Rebecca regarding filming the current paper process which may take place tomorrow
- (Greg) - I'm looking forward to seeing the video which will help us as we're designing the back end - having more examples will be really helpful
- pursuing the intermediary idea of finding a single organization that we can work with
- I contacted Scott at CARD
- he added some info and graphics on the card wiki at http://card.projects.unamesa.org/Forms+and+Input
- Paul and I agree that CARD doesn't really have much of a forms piece to it so they might not be the ideal partner on this project
- (Greg) - I think we need to continue contact with CARD - at the moment though it seems they're trying to design new information flows, not just capture them
- I contacted the Women's Cancer Resource Center, which is busy til the end of the year
- they are a part of the Women's Cancer Initiative so they're talking about doing a common form for all the groups within the Initiative
- (Greg) - this sounds like good lead - if it is focused on an individual form or a set of forms that a number of organizations use, that's definitely what we're looking for
- I sent an email to Sara yesterday asking for a contact at the WCI
- (Paul) - we're also looking a EAP which is a cmmon online app which has been developed for a range of social service providers in the SF East Bay
- I'm in the process of organizing the curriculum and putting it together in a way that makes the most sense
NonProfit Technology Development Summit
Greg
- took place this week
- I spoke with Ben Wolf, the developer on Open MRS - the technology back end for medical record systems
- they have the potential to be an intermediary
- they have a couple of partners - one of whom is WHO which has packaged a version of Open MRS for clinics
- they have a package of the schemas and the data entry
- almost all of their installations are in Africa or S. America
- Ben was very interested in the potential to gather data via paper and mobile as well as on the web
- apparently there's a person in Uganda who developed JavaRosa as a front end for entering data into Open MRS
- the ability to store scanned images will be online in about a month
- we should contact them regarding the technology side but Ben suggests that we contact WHO for the organizational side
Support System for UM Technology Infrastructure
Saq
- the wiki for the support system is set up and I've set up pages for TW and SRs
- I've sent an email to Andreas to make sure he is up to date on what we're doing
- I'll let the TW community know about the set up and Andreas can let Dimagi know about SRs
Additional Updates
Saq
TiddlyTumbles
- Roger has been having some trouble with scanning in docs so he'll send them to me via mail and I'll scan them in
Andrew Lister
- he's finally free of the backlog so we'll work on getting the public demo out by next week
- we'll try to time it so that the screencast that he wants will be available at the same time as well
Univ. of Oslo Presentation
- I'll be giving this presentation regarding medical records sharing this Friday
- I've had some interest regarding having a discussion afterwards with some other attendees geared more towards medical records sharing in underprivileged regions
Greg
Crag Wolfe
- he's someone who has been working on another project with me and also is getting up to speed on the infrastructure
- he's agreed to be 'on call' to help out if/when we need help with hosting issues
- he's built some virtual machines so we have a little bit more capacity there
- (Marianne) in case there is a problem and Andreas is not available, Crag's contact info is here http://private.projects.unamesa.org/Associates. He will also be on the unamesa-team google group email list.
UM Board Meeting
- there will be a Board meeting this Friday where we'll be setting some plans for 2009
- between now and our next call on Wed., Dec. 3rd, I'll put those notes into a report on what we accomplished in 2008 and what we hope to do in 2009
- I'll circulate that by email and post it to the wiki - I'll look for your feedback
- I reviewed what we'd set out to do in 2008 and found that we made more progress in some areas than I'd anticipated and less in others so for 2009, I'd like to build on the things that have worked and be pretty clear about both discontinuing projects where we're not making traction and also making sure that we're identifying where the real value is for the community in terms of getting some additional business models and perhaps some people from the TW community to pledge contributions of some type
- if there are things you think we should be or could be doing better, now would be a great time to send that to me and use the time next week when we won't be having our call, to think about the longer term issues of where you'd like to see us heading as well as what we should do more of or less of
Mediawiki/Wikispaces
Martin
- I've been working on the mediawiki adaptor to get the edit working
- (Greg) - we haven't had any feedback from the folks at mediawiki yet - if you have an update I'll send that to them and ask for additional feedback
Wikispaces
- I haven't started on that yet but we'll still on track for having this done by the end of the year
- (Saq) - I'm going to start working on the styling aspects by putting together a plugin that displays the discussion the way we want and that will be completely ignorant of the underlying wikispaces basics so we can use it with mediawiki as well
- I'll make it configurable so you can find threads and topics within them
Greg
- regarding the JavaRosa X forms - I'm looking for thoughts on whether it will be possible to use that representation within TW - is this a promising path?
- everyone I've talked with recognizes that the ability to have a single forms specification that can work on the web and mobile and, ideally, paper would be a serious contribution to the entire space
Forms Work
Saq
- we've worked out the terms under which Chris Dent will be working on this for UM
- Greg and Chris have put together a prototype that consists of being able to retrieve and save back to different forms - Chris started work on this last week
- I've invited Chris to be on the weekly conference calls or to simply report to me before the calls so that I can give updates
- (Greg) - I've created a space at http://formsbiz.projects.unamesa.org/ for further discussion on forms. It's a private space so if you're interested, request access and Marianne will approve it
Paul
- Saq sent around a link to www.in4ama.org which is an interesting tool in terms of an open platform for forms creation - I think it might be worth exploring further
- (Saq) - I'm a bit undecided on it, partly because of the pdf format but I'm looking forward to looking at the code to see how it works and how it might relate to the forms solution that we're implementing - if nothing else, it will at least be good if the two can talk to each other
- (Greg) - the one issue with it is that you need acrobat in order to be able to fill out the forms so maybe we could have a TW front end that can talk to the same back end
UnaMesa WikiSpaces Sites
The list of all sites can be found at http://www.projects.unamesa.org/Wikis
Please add any pages/spaces that are missing from this list or let me know what they are and I'll add them.
UM Calendars
Action Items for 11/19 - 12/03
Intermediary organization suggestions - send ideas to Paul or Heather - All
JavaRosa X forms - take a look at it and give feedback on if it makes sense to go forward with it - Martin & Eric
Agenda for call on 12/03
2008-11-19Protected
