Conference Call Notes – Jan. 9th 2008

I’ll be in Boston Feb 8th through 13th for a conference
will try to set up a meeting with Jeff Brown (who runs empirical studies for Mass. General or Harvard) & Jon
- regarding project to collect clinical data for trials using ServiceLink type of approach

Martin

Jeremy would like to assign copyright of client and server codes for an Osmosoft project to UM
- in order to show that BT is contributing to the community

(Greg)

yes and we’ll have a press release when that’s done

WikiSpaces Proposal

Saq

http://mixins.project.unamesa.org

all the desired features have been outlined, as well as the API requirements on Wikispaces
- example use space was Where There Is No Doctor by Hesperian
  - this has been revised to a use space which already has an html format – http://mixins.projects.unamesa.org/Disabled+Village+Children
    - Hesperian publishes books for the public good
    - they allow anyone to use their books to create derivative books
      - i.e. localized language versions or other formats that are appropriate for specific communities
    - they are interested in publishing their books digitally

there will be a conference call with Adam from Wikispaces today immediately following this call
- we will discuss the proposal from a business perspective as well as the the actual features and requirements
screenshots will be created after today’s call with Adam

Greg

Priya is still traveling in India

she has been in contact with Yousuf
she won’t be able to go to Bangledesh

will be supporting an existing project by the Open University of Bangladesh
- English language pilot learning project – 26 lessons over 13 weeks

SharedRecords Back Up

Backing up TW files to SharedRecords

Eric

the syntiddler plugin will submit a form to a server
- advantage is that this form is browser based
- using this form, a passcode can be generated to submit to SRs
- challenge currently is making server side accept a ‘post’ instead of ‘put’
  - once server will accept a ‘post’, this will be a working mechanism
  - then will need to encapsulate this process into a single button click
  - Cory will add the post mechanism

Tasks Page For All UM Associates

http://tasks.projects.unamesa.org/

Greg

Each UM associate, including Dimagi, has a task page. Starting now, please keep track of the goals regarding the projects you’re working on as well as the actual achievements. This doesn’t have to be detailed. What would be best is to point to the actual work if it has been posted elsewhere online. It is suggested that updating be done either directly before or after the Wednesday conference calls.

You can organize your task space as you see fit.

Reasons for posting task updates:

to give us some discipline and the ability to coordinate activities
it’s necessary for us to have a history of what we’ve accomplished so that contributors and those who show an interest in Um can see what progress has been made
- this is part of being as transparent as possible

Marianne

Everyone has been sent an invitation to join the site. It’s necessary to become a member in order to edit your page. If you need to have another invitation sent, please let me know.

Those who are already members:

Andreas
Cory
Eric
Priya
Martin

Goals for 2008

http://tasks.projects.unamesa.org/2008+Goals

Greg

Goals

to recognize that, since started UM in 2006, time has been spent building the infrastructure
- very happy with where we are now
- we have a good team working across a wide range of projects and engaging with several partners
focus for 2008
- applications – MORE and ServiceLink
  - demonstrate practical usage to improve services
  - whether or not projects are successful, document all steps along the way
- all UM associates
  - please be focused on the key differences you want to make in other people’s lives in terms of their experiences
  - make sure that how time is being spent is reflective of these goals

ServiceLink

Jon

currently in the implementation phase
- finalizing several new pieces of technology which will be part of the SRs package
- implemented the WebDave interface for one piece
- none of the open source tools that implement WebDav with Java focused on the storage mechanism, so we can’t get that off an existing project
  - the http interface for WebDav is trivial, so it was faster to write our own
- the barcode server that Andy is working on is almost complete
  - this will be good for the SRs community
  - will allow generation or reading of an arbitrary key bar code by submitting a post method against a given URL
  - this will allow anyone to submit a generic pdf doc and pull the bytes back out of a key bar code
    - in the ServiceLink project this is being used to uniquely identify documents as a particular type of visit belonging to a particular patient

I’m on the Board of a medical company in Japan
- a gap in the medical records system they are in the process of designing is exactly what we’re designing for ServiceLink

we’ll be in CA around Jan 22nd for a couple weeks

Greg

we’ll have an UM lunch during that time for anyone who is in the area

Action Items

Cory

add ‘post’ mechanism to extend API to support posts for uploading TW files to SRs

Andreas

deploy the post mechanism on the test server

Eric

test the above

Martin

add functionality Saq has requested

All

review http://tasks.projects.unamesa.org/2008+Goals
give feedback by either editing page directly or using the discussion page

Discussion of 2008 goals and how they relate to each project

Discussion regarding Osmosoft assigning copyrights of client and server codes of one of their projects to UM

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