[ale] Dissertation on Open Source for community health clinics (Was "I'm going to...")

[Daniel Howard]

Hi Craig,

I changed the subject since I'm not really interested in the Winbloz 
7/Office 2010 stuff; I've seen some demos of collaboration on Macs that 
blows anything I've seen in Win7 out of the water, including 
collaboration on video editing in FinalCut Pro, that was something!  But 
you still have the issue of forcing everyone to adopt the same setup, 
the real minus IMHO.

But I'm very interested in your dissertation work, could you share more 
of that with us, specifically the positives you have seen from your 
research/experience?  Good stories about adoption of OpenSource by 
medical folks?  Anything else of a positive nature that could be used by 
those of us in working for Open Source in the education community?

Best, Daniel




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> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:11:45 -0500
> From: "Craig Button" <craigb.rn at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ale] I'm going to hate myself
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> I?m going to hate myself for this but I?m actually likening Windows 7 and MS Office 2010.
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> I?m currently working on a book collaboration with people from all around the country and even one from Australia.  We?re all academics so we didn?t have to spend and arm and a leg for Win 7 and we all participated in the Office 2010 Beta.  It?s got some really good collaboration tools built in.  Last night I had 20 people around the county watching my PowerPoint presentation streaming to their computers.  Now I admit I?m running it on a computer with more horsepower than the average desktop, but it works well and the only hiccup with my ATT DSL that decided to stop in the middle of it.
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> This is really going to hurt since my dissertation is on utilizing open source software to support free community health clinics and critical access hospitals.
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