Hi,

Abstract: I'm pleased to announce an new Subproject from openSUSE: openSUSE_Medical. This new Project tries to package more Software for doctors's practice or clinical needs. With our work we try to bridge a gap in the market. My congratulations, that's a great idea but certainly a big effort.

Logistic: For better logistic we have opened an new OBS Project called "medical". You can use it as Repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/medical/. Our new Wikisite is placed under: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Medical. There you find our new Mailinglist for our Project. What is to do? We try to package more Software. I've found this List [1] about Free Medical Software. we thought, that we can try to build one Software each purpose. If this is done, we can try to package more Software. But it is important to package not too much. This is an Joy- Project. I think for this kind of sub projects it is quite important to gather some knowledge of what the target group really needs. Doctors, similar to other user groups, will probably not like to pick what they need from a huge repo where simply everything is in. Attractive to them is probably more a solution stack which helps them in their daily work. And to assemble that stack is a good portion of work which I think is key here. And, more than usual, that is dependant on the country where you want to position the project.

Another thing that comes to my mind is: What makes a real openSUSE sub project? Sascha founded the Medical sub project, there is the Edu sub project, I am dreaming of a small business sub project, there is an audio sub project and so on. Do we want some guidelines or frame under which we position such sub projects? Thoughts? Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org