Nick, You're probably right- I wasn't sure if there was enough content for a dedicated healthcare track. But would love to participate in any of those proposed or existing tracks. --
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Nick Burch <n...@apache.org> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: > >> On 11/24/2014 11:14 AM, Pei Chen wrote: >> >>> Is there any interest in having a category for Healthcare? Would be >>> interesting to see how others use ASF projects to solve different >>> healthcare issues. >>> Jay (from BigTop/RedHat) and I (cTAKES) were possibly thinking of doing a >>> cross project/joint thing on analysis clinical text to demo at Austin... >>> >> >> >> There's interest if there's content. If you want a track or category, you >> need to think in terms of the question "Will someone's manager approve an >> expense to travel to Austin for this content." If it's one talk, it's >> probably not going to draw an audience all by itself. If it's 3 or more >> strong talks, paired with supporting technical content in a related track, >> then it is. >> > > I'm thinking of putting together a Content track, and I'd love to have a > CTAKES talk or two in that! > > We might be able to talk someone like Lewis or Chris M into putting on a > science track. If that happens, I could see there being one good CTAKES > talk for the content track on how you use UIMA+OpenNLP, then another for > the science track on how you integrate CTAKEs with other things for solving > medical/science problems with it > > (For $DAYJOB reasons, I'd love for use to heave a healthcare tech track, > but I'm not sure if there's enough healthcare related projects in the ASF > yet for a full day's content?) > > Nick >
