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Cooperative Funding for OpenEMR (LinuxMedNews)
Consultant and OpenEMR developer Rod Roark
suggests a new method for the funding of open-source projects:
"Accordingly, my company Sunset Systems has organized a collaborative method for improving OpenEMR. We have put together a "wish list" at here. What you can do is pick an item on the list (or propose a new one) that is important to you, and tell us how much cash you might be willing to contribute toward its development, along with any special requirements you may have. When it appears that sufficient funding is available to complete your item to everyone's satisfaction, we'll contact you and the other contributors to confirm agreement and then make it happen."
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Cooperative Funding for OpenEMR (LinuxMedNews) Posted Dec 22, 2005 20:40 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] The idea of community bidding on feature additions isn't all that new; I don't remember quite who it was who came up with it first... but I don't remember it working as well as they would have liked, either.
Perhaps Linux uptake in the business environment hadn't reached critical mass the first time? Hopefully this wil work well for them.
Cooperative Funding for OpenEMR (LinuxMedNews) Posted Dec 30, 2005 4:08 UTC (Fri) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link] The idea of community bidding on feature additions isn't all that new; I don't remember quite who it was who came up with it first... but I don't remember it working as well as they would have liked, either.I think it was SourceExchange, or something like that. I vaguely think I might almost recall that Brian Behlendorf was involved, but I might be smoking crack.com, too. Greg
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