OK but go easy - this is meant to be a weekly thing not an annual! By all means put your implementation stories on the wiki, then send an email to the list which I will probably pick up on - or send me a mail directly with the link.
Regards Bob 2009/5/15 Saptarshi Purkayastha <sun...@gmail.com>: > woooh!! So we have a new DHIS Newsletter... If someone can also add > implementation stories/news and send it to Bob, nothing like it!! > > --- > 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 > > > 2009/5/15 Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> >> >> 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 <ol...@ifi.uio.no>: >> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> >> > 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 <sun...@gmail.com>: >> >> > 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 <ol...@ifi.uio.no> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> >> >> Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >> >> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> >> > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >> >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> >> Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
