Subject: Open-Source Diabetes tools at sourceforge.net (fwd) - msg#00006

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Dear Debian Med community The Swiss MD-PhD Association, SMPA, is organizing a meeting concerning "Free and open source software in medicine". It is planned to take place at the AILab in Zurich at a Saturday afternoon (from about 14.00 to 17.30) in April. The audience will consist of about 20 physicians, physician-scientists and/or MD-PhD students who want to get an impression what is possible to do with free software in the biomedical environment to date. The meeting will mainly focus on basic education about FOSS, with the focus on biomedical implications. Most work will be done probably by myself. In this context, we would be very glad to welcome someone really involved in the field. We would appreciate if you could give us a short talk about recent developments concerning FOSS in the biomedical environment (we thought about 30 minutes, but you are free to tell us your wishes). We would of course cover your travel expenses and be glad to pay you a symbolic fee in addition. Since our budget is limited, your travel expenses shouldn't exceed about 400$. We are looking forward to welcome someone of you in Zurich. For the board, David -- Swiss MD-PhD Association - http://www.smpa.org/ David Andel, Secretary - andel@xxxxxxxx -- MD-PhD Student at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland Office: AND 2.18, Phone: +41-1-635 45 75

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Re: Open-Source Diabetes tools at sourceforge.net (fwd)

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Gert De Keersmaecker wrote: ... in private but I think he has no problem if I quote his fine work in public ... > This list is smaller than the search results for diabetes in SF > but I removed all the 'planning fase' projects. Making the list shorter is really helpful because we should focus on *existing* software and we should save our time by ignoring the not existing one. > The scores are my opinion feel free to change and repost. I rated some (mostly PDA-related stuff) lower and I'd suggest we should the stuff you or me rated lower than "3". Once this is done we might end up with a reasonable list for our "Debian-Med Web expert". ;-) > PS: I am willing to maintain one of these packets. Fine - just send an ITP bug report for the package you like best ... Any comments to this reduced list before I drop the projects rated 4 or 5 ? > GlucoTools > GlucoTools is a collection of tools for Palm Pilot and Visor type PDAs that > assist in managing diabetes. These tools are aimed at individuals using > insulin pumps (often referred to as "pumpers"). palm pilot pda bolus > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable > 3 I think PDA-specific software is not intersting for Debian-Med because it is bound to a specific hardware which does not run Debian (please correct me, if I'm wrong. > KPumpe > KPumpe is a diabetes diary log application with support to read from > glucometers via glucomodul - modules. Everyone with every type of diabetes > can find here a good diary log application and Pumpers can use it as well. > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 4 - Beta > 2 Rating it "2" seems to be OK. > Diabetes Blood Glucose Meter Modules > Our target is to make modules for blood glucose meters and to make them usable > for other projects which are creating Diabetes related software. > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 4 - Beta > 2 Rating it "2" seems to be OK. > Insulin Buddy > Insulin Buddy is diabetes management software. It allows for quick and > painless entry of all diabetes-related data (blood blucose, carbohydrate > consumption, insulin doses, etc) and provides a number of reports, charts and > data exports to easily keep trac > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 4 - Beta > 3 Rating it "3" seems to be OK. > GNU Gluco Control > GNU Gluco Control (ggc) helps you to manage your diabetes. You will find > detailed tables, diagrams and statistics. It is platform independent and is > written in java. You can select between mysql, postgresql, odbc(windows) or > text file to store all the da > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 3 - Alpha > 3 Here the usual Java trouble applies. We have to check whether it runs with our free Java impementations. If it needs a non-free JVM I would rate it "4" especially its functionality seems to be covered by Insulin Buddy. (correct me if I'm wrong). > GlucoZaurus Diabetes Managment Tool > GlucoZaurus is a tool for the Sharp Zaurus (Embedix/QTopia) that allows people > suffereing from Diabetes to track their bloodsugar/Insulin values and display > graphs in order to see the progress. > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 3 - Alpha > 3 Well, Debian is known to work on Zaurus, but I personally think we should not focus on specific architectures. I'm not sure if it is reasonable in the long term to ignore those PDAs but I do not really think that we should this rate higher than "4". > e-HealthCare - distributed HealthCare > This is the source repository for a research project regarding IT-support in > distributed and home-based health care. The first pilot application is a > diabetes followup application. The application uses Semantic Web technology > extensively and can be ex > License: BSD License > Development Status: 2 - Pre-Alpha, 3 - Alpha > 5 OK. > Disease Gene Profiler > Disease Gene Profiler (DGP) comprises of a set of (bioinformatics) tools that > can be used to identify the genes underlying susceptibility to common > multifactorial diseases (such as diabetes, asthma and cancer) using freely > available datasources. > License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) > Development Status: 4 - Beta > 1 Rating it "1" seems to be OK. Gert, many thanks for your fine work Andreas. > > a) License (Please add GPL/BSD/MPL or whatever if the project has > > one of these common licenses or add the complete statement.) > > Please mark non-free projects clearly. > > b) Do some ranking which of these programs are > > 1. very interesting for Debian-Med > > 2. interesting for Debian-Med > > 3. nice to have > > 4. not so important > > 5. uninteresting > > c) Add a short description which would help people to prepare the > > web page paragraph

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Dear Debian Med community The Swiss MD-PhD Association, SMPA, is organizing a meeting concerning "Free and open source software in medicine". It is planned to take place at the AILab in Zurich at a Saturday afternoon (from about 14.00 to 17.30) in April. The audience will consist of about 20 physicians, physician-scientists and/or MD-PhD students who want to get an impression what is possible to do with free software in the biomedical environment to date. The meeting will mainly focus on basic education about FOSS, with the focus on biomedical implications. Most work will be done probably by myself. In this context, we would be very glad to welcome someone really involved in the field. We would appreciate if you could give us a short talk about recent developments concerning FOSS in the biomedical environment (we thought about 30 minutes, but you are free to tell us your wishes). We would of course cover your travel expenses and be glad to pay you a symbolic fee in addition. Since our budget is limited, your travel expenses shouldn't exceed about 400$. We are looking forward to welcome someone of you in Zurich. For the board, David -- Swiss MD-PhD Association - http://www.smpa.org/ David Andel, Secretary - andel@xxxxxxxx -- MD-PhD Student at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland Office: AND 2.18, Phone: +41-1-635 45 75

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Re: Open-Source Diabetes tools at sourceforge.net (fwd)

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Gert De Keersmaecker wrote: ... in private but I think he has no problem if I quote his fine work in public ... > This list is smaller than the search results for diabetes in SF > but I removed all the 'planning fase' projects. Making the list shorter is really helpful because we should focus on *existing* software and we should save our time by ignoring the not existing one. > The scores are my opinion feel free to change and repost. I rated some (mostly PDA-related stuff) lower and I'd suggest we should the stuff you or me rated lower than "3". Once this is done we might end up with a reasonable list for our "Debian-Med Web expert". ;-) > PS: I am willing to maintain one of these packets. Fine - just send an ITP bug report for the package you like best ... Any comments to this reduced list before I drop the projects rated 4 or 5 ? > GlucoTools > GlucoTools is a collection of tools for Palm Pilot and Visor type PDAs that > assist in managing diabetes. These tools are aimed at individuals using > insulin pumps (often referred to as "pumpers"). palm pilot pda bolus > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable > 3 I think PDA-specific software is not intersting for Debian-Med because it is bound to a specific hardware which does not run Debian (please correct me, if I'm wrong. > KPumpe > KPumpe is a diabetes diary log application with support to read from > glucometers via glucomodul - modules. Everyone with every type of diabetes > can find here a good diary log application and Pumpers can use it as well. > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 4 - Beta > 2 Rating it "2" seems to be OK. > Diabetes Blood Glucose Meter Modules > Our target is to make modules for blood glucose meters and to make them usable > for other projects which are creating Diabetes related software. > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 4 - Beta > 2 Rating it "2" seems to be OK. > Insulin Buddy > Insulin Buddy is diabetes management software. It allows for quick and > painless entry of all diabetes-related data (blood blucose, carbohydrate > consumption, insulin doses, etc) and provides a number of reports, charts and > data exports to easily keep trac > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 4 - Beta > 3 Rating it "3" seems to be OK. > GNU Gluco Control > GNU Gluco Control (ggc) helps you to manage your diabetes. You will find > detailed tables, diagrams and statistics. It is platform independent and is > written in java. You can select between mysql, postgresql, odbc(windows) or > text file to store all the da > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 3 - Alpha > 3 Here the usual Java trouble applies. We have to check whether it runs with our free Java impementations. If it needs a non-free JVM I would rate it "4" especially its functionality seems to be covered by Insulin Buddy. (correct me if I'm wrong). > GlucoZaurus Diabetes Managment Tool > GlucoZaurus is a tool for the Sharp Zaurus (Embedix/QTopia) that allows people > suffereing from Diabetes to track their bloodsugar/Insulin values and display > graphs in order to see the progress. > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) > Development Status: 3 - Alpha > 3 Well, Debian is known to work on Zaurus, but I personally think we should not focus on specific architectures. I'm not sure if it is reasonable in the long term to ignore those PDAs but I do not really think that we should this rate higher than "4". > e-HealthCare - distributed HealthCare > This is the source repository for a research project regarding IT-support in > distributed and home-based health care. The first pilot application is a > diabetes followup application. The application uses Semantic Web technology > extensively and can be ex > License: BSD License > Development Status: 2 - Pre-Alpha, 3 - Alpha > 5 OK. > Disease Gene Profiler > Disease Gene Profiler (DGP) comprises of a set of (bioinformatics) tools that > can be used to identify the genes underlying susceptibility to common > multifactorial diseases (such as diabetes, asthma and cancer) using freely > available datasources. > License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) > Development Status: 4 - Beta > 1 Rating it "1" seems to be OK. Gert, many thanks for your fine work Andreas. > > a) License (Please add GPL/BSD/MPL or whatever if the project has > > one of these common licenses or add the complete statement.) > > Please mark non-free projects clearly. > > b) Do some ranking which of these programs are > > 1. very interesting for Debian-Med > > 2. interesting for Debian-Med > > 3. nice to have > > 4. not so important > > 5. uninteresting > > c) Add a short description which would help people to prepare the > > web page paragraph