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From: Sascha Manns on 15 Jul 2010 07:17
Hello Mates,

my Name is Sascha Manns from the openSUSE Project.
In the past i have seen, that we haven't enough free Software Programs
for doctor's needs or for clinical Research and
not enough packaged Software for our Distributions. So i started a
openSUSE Subproject, called "openSUSE Medical".Our
Team has the Goal to make free medical Software available in the
openSUSE RPM Packages. We are using
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_healthcare_software
for becoming an Idea for what to package the next.
But sometimes we have Problems since Packaging (maybe Compiler Errors
or so on). And i think if i have fixed any Error,
it is maybe interesting for other People who try packaging the same
Package.

Actual Results
===========

We have at the Moment three Distribution specific Package Groups
(IIRC):

* fedora-medical
* debian-med
* opensuse-medical.

GOALS
======

* Create a Medical Software Group for each Distribution
* Create a Mailinglist who is subscribed the Distribution specific
People and the Upstream Projects. So the Upstream
knows very fast about Problems.
* Collaborative packaging
* Providing the Software for each Distribution/Package (rpm, deb and
so on).
* Creating LiveCD/DVD for each Distribution (last days i released the
pre-alpha of opensuse Images)
* Creating VMWare Image (VirtualBox, VMWare) for each Distribution

Why
====

ATM We having in Germany and many other Countrys just proprietary
Software. If we can provide more Medical Software we
can help to stabilize doctor's and clinical's Budged. On the other
Hand we can support Medical People in the 3rd World.

How
====

We have many ways to reach that. One of them is the BuildService:
http://build.opensuse.org. The BuildService can create
Packages for Fedora, Debian, Mandriva and Ubuntu (sure openSUSE too
;-)). Our actual Packages for openSUSE can found
there: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/medical/ The
src.rpm's can used as base for building rpm's.

What do you thinking about my Idea? Have we any people who wants to
work in that Project?
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