Dear all,
NEW TODAY...
we have launched the new openEHR website, at http://www.openEHR.org . We
hope this new site provides an improved experience for the community
over the old one. It will allow us to more efficiently respond to your
needs, in terms of new and better information.
You will notice a link on the website pointing to the new Wiki, which is
at http://www.openehr.org/wiki . This will provide a place to have
discussions, and particularly to record the outcome of some of the long
and very interesting discussions that occur on the lists.
We expect that both of these resources will need to evolve as required
by the community, so we are interested in feedback. Please provide
feedback as follows:
* errors, broken links - use the webmaster link on the website home page
* general discussions about the website, wiki - either on the
technical email list (openehr-technical@openehr.org) or on the
wiki discussion page for openEHR online resources (requires
logging in to the wiki) - this is at
http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/oecom
We hope you find these new online resources useful. Please take a moment
to have a quick look at both the website and wiki. With regard to the
latter, we have initially created a number of spaces corresponding to
major areas of interest (specifications, health requirements etc) that
are often discussed within the community. If people feel that an
alternative structure would be better, please discuss this first before
making changes to the wiki structure.
COMING SOON...
Some facilities are not yet online. The membership database from the old
site has not been transferred, as this involves some work and planning,
mainly to avoid the need for too many multiple logins. Currently, we
suggest that people DO NOT login to the website (there is no useful
reason to do this currently) but DO login to the wiki (please use an id
of the form firstname.lastname), if you intend to participate in
discussions. Login is not required to view pages on the wiki.
We are aware that the rich text editor does not show up in the wiki. We
are currently looking at this issue.
We will be adding RSS feeds to the website.
We have a Jira issue-tracking site which will go live very soon. This
will provide a superior way of reporting and tracking Problem Reports
(i.e. issues experienced by people using software or specifications) and
Change Requests (i.e. software engineering or specification change
orders used by people working in project teams to track their development).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many people have worked on the new resources, but in particular we would
like to thank Helma ven der Linden (U Maastricht) for the initial setup,
configuration and content, and Anthony Peacock (CHIME, UCL) for his
system administration support throughout. See
http://www.openehr.org/about/webcom.html for a list of other people
involved.
We would also like to say thank you the people at Atlassian who have
provided a free non-profit license to openEHR.org for the wiki
(Confluence) and the issue-tracker (Jira).
Enjoy!