Hi all, 1.) software reagarding medical/scientific tasks are spread all over the web. Effort has been undertaken to aggerate those in one place. Personally I have lost track. There are projects at freshmeat, sourceforge, savannah, debian-med and whatnot. I personally feel it is up to the project maintainers to make their work public. Sure it would help if there was this one place where all software could come together but this is the missing link so far 2.) I did not find GNUmed listed at Debian-med any more. Did I just overlook it or miss something ? 3.) There seems to be an unofficial Debian package of openemr you might want to take a look at http://www.openmedsoftware.org/wiki/OpenEMR_Downloads Summary: Visibility of the great software and packaging effort of FOSS software is far from ideal. This severly hinders your chances to get picked up by users. Everyone and their uncle has an app store today. All but FOSS software. Which is a shame. I mean first we create an kick ass alternative software. Then we either do not package it at all and require users to have Jedi powers to get it running or we package it in far too many formats and distributions so that a single prospective user does not have the slightest chance to get it installed. Why the hell do I need deb (Debian/Ubuntu etc.) rpm (individual rpm indeed for openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva etc.) ebuild and whatnot ? Come on I am a software developer. Currently I spend more time packaging software then developing. This got to change. I know this is good for a flame war. Please don't. Let us find ways or maybe an infrastructure where packagers from various distributions can collaborate. Tell you what. The minute the Linux/FOSS community decides on one package format we will see adoption rate go up. Distributions could concentrate on innovation rather then packaging and software developers would be relieved of the packaging job and hunting around for the right place to send the software. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-medical+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-medical+help@opensuse.org