Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed summer programming and google sponsor

[J Busser]

At 1:43 AM +0200 6/1/05, Carlos Moro wrote:
> Should it be useful for GNUmed? A bit of spread its existence, 
> opportunity to get some people involved, and ... mini/big projects 
> and roadmap evolution? ;)

Well, I do like the idea and wonder

  i) who is in a position to serve as mentor
 ii) what project "part" might we most like to have moved forward
iii) which student type(s) we might most like to attract

Mentoring:
- If no-one feels in a position to mentor, it is a non-starter. Dunno 
whether by submitting it, Carlos is willing to stand in this role. If 
there are more than one interested, maybe the work of the role could 
be shared (even though Google may require one person's name to stand 
officially in the role).

Project component and logistics:

- We would need a definable project component whose amount of work 
involved would be roughly  appropriate for the funding, and able to 
be done during the time frame (summer)

- As components I would think that more work towards the importing 
and management of lab results or drug prescribing could be most 
useful strategically; as a side-alternative a student might be asked 
to help work on drug-ref getting it more ready for wider adoption and 
helping with documentation although I don't know if Horst is in a 
position to serve as mentor

- the student's work must be complete by August 31 and yet by this 
time Google will have granted only an initial funding cheque of $500 
plus at our option (if we are satisfied with progress) only a "middle 
cheque" in an amount of ~$2250 with the balance ($2250) being 
withheld until after October 1st. If it is possible that the student 
could really use the balance earlier (e.g. to pay tuition) then we 
could consider fronting that $2250 if it be possible to get Google to 
remit the balance to us

- if we can tie the lab portion into the anticoagulation clinic 
project I can contribute from that fund e.g. to front the early final 
cheque

Student type(s):
- a medical student with interest and suitable ability at coding or
- some other student (like an IT program student, maybe in a health 
informatics program) with a *highly* suitable coding ability plus 
interest in medical informatics
- do we have among current gnumed developers anyone with student 
status who would be interested in being supported by the google 
Summer of Code?