Open Steps

Open Steps, release 1.0

Report of a thinktank meeting on Free/Libre/Open Source Software in the health and health informatics domains

Marwell, February 2004

Status of this report

While this paper aims to provide a definitive report of the Marwell Open Steps meeting, in many respects it cannot do that; it should be seen more as a position paper that provides a starting point to further discussions, and hopefully activities.

The report is a summary of what the author and those who have commented on drafts see as the main issues arising from the meeting. However, the diversity of opinion cannot be captured in such a report, and there will undoubtedly be some participants who feel that important aspects have been omitted. We invite participants to provide further comments on, and additions to the report, and we also invite other individuals and groups to provide comment. Additional reports following future meetings will build on this commentary, and report on activities undertaken by the groups involved and others on the basis of the issues raised from this first meeting.

For anyone interested in commenting on the report in any way, you can either:

use the Wiki kindly provided by Adrian Midgley at:

http://www.defoam.net/wiki/tavi-0.22/index.php?page=OpenSteps

or email at:  opensteps@chirad.info

We hope to set up a further discussion forum in the near future.



Executive Summary >>>

Contents>>>

Appendices>>>

Technical aspects, copyright and licensing; GNU Free Documentation License >>>



Copyright (c) 2004 IMIA Open Source Working Group and British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, 
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no Back-Cover  Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

For general enquiries about the Open Steps meeting, email:
Dr Peter Murray - peter.murray@chirad.info

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