FOSS in HIT to the world

OSHCA is an important organization, but has only a small international presence. It needs to grow and become incorporated as an official enterprise type organization. This will give it a stature in the international government/business/IT/health sectors, that will allow the furthering of initiatives to FOSS based HIT. The organization should be able to handle funds, organise conferences, collaboration, set open standards, motivate people and governments and educate them. IT could also forewarn them about legislature that can harm the development of FOSS.

To promote FOSS in HIT a strong organization such as this is needed. Organizations like IOSN could also play an important role here. Instead of creating several organizations under many banners, it is best to form one large umbrella under which the others can work. To do this communication between these international groups are a must.

We need a go-between......

Rescued by a puppy

My hard disk, after surving me well beyond the guarantee period, coughed and collapsed. Since I had saved most of what I had there, it was not a problem. I was however, able to use my PC with a live CD of linux. But what about my bookmarks, files etc?

I thought this was as good a time as any to get that little puppy from down under, to help. Booting with the puppy multisession CD 1.0.6 in the CD writer, I simple copied everything I wanted from my USB pen and a CD, setup the connection to the internet, played around a bit, and logged off. I was asked if I wanted to save stuff, I said "yes" and logged off.

When I booted up again, everything was there including my beloved bookmarks, files and pics. This is so good, that I wondered if I ever would need a HDD! But there are some problems. Sound does not work. Not a big problem, but sad. The MPEGs cannot be seen. Multimedia is missing!!

All these are correctible according to the Forum. If I want to I can install by pup-get the Open Office 2.0 suite too, and log off and burn it to my Puppy. But I have held it at bay for now, as it gives me a chance to try out my Taprobane live CD to use Office apps.

Nevertheless, Puppy is quite wonderful. I must get multimedia going and add OOo and then it would be quite adequate for most days.

I do miss my Ubuntu install though :-) It was growing quite well......