Some exciting changes are in the pipeline for the openEHR online community.
1. New website. The existing website, as many of you would know is not
terribly flexible, consistent or visually appealing. The new website is
being built with Daisy, which is a layer on top of Cocoon, a content
management system that sits on top of Apache. The new website will look
better, and allow far easier updating, searching and other facilities.
The aim is to get this online in the next month or so, not in a finished
state, but in a reasonable state, and start soliciting input from the
community as to how they would like to see it going.
2. New wiki. The community needs a more interactive capability, and the
Atlassian people have been kind enough to give us non-profit free
licenses for both Confluence (their wiki) and Jira (their issue tracking
system). The openEHR wiki will give us a place to put the results of
some of those long, fascinating discussions that occur, and also for
members to host content yourselves.
3. New issue tracking system. The Jira issue tracking system is very
powerful and web-friendly. We will deploy it to track issues for all
openEHR software and clinical modelling projects. This will make it
easier for developers to collaborate, and for users to see the state of
the software, know what is coming up in various releases.
The wiki and Jira should also be online in the next few weeks. (Please
allow for some delay due to MedInfo!)
best wishes,
- thomas beale