Re: [Gnumed-devel] A question for the community

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Donnerstag 10 Juni 2010, 09:36:28 schrieb Sebastian Hilbert:

Hi all,

This little test pretty much shows that I am right. Back in the days I 
proclaimed that FOSS has a visibility problem.

http://gnumed.blogspot.com/2009/05/foss-emr-visibility.html

I am not going into this again. The question here is not how to reach those 
that are already part of the community (subscibers to GNUmed mailing list, 
linuxmednews readers and so on) but those who are not.

Raising awareness is what I had in mind.

Here is what we do already.

GNUmed has

a blog
a website/wiki
a freshmeat entry
a sourceforge entry
a heise.de entry
a softpedia entry
a linkedin group
a facebook wall
a twitter account
an identi.ca account
an oloh.net entry 

All those and many more only reach computer literate users. But since we all 
know that physicians are not always computer interested, let alone FOSS 
interested those measures are not extending the view beyond the edge of the 
plate. The concepts of FOSS have believed to speak for themselves. They are 
not.

I believe it is necessary to go out and infiltrate the non-FOSS groups, 
journals and websites. They might not report much good about FOSS. Bad news is 
better then no news. The missing link is how to reach non-physician, computer 
literate physician affiliated people.

Sebastian