Re: WHO and Epi-Info
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> Have you thought of approaching the World Health Organisation (WHO) for
> sponsorship and/or project sanctioning or other indirect forms of
> support?
Thanks for the hint. It is a good idea to ask somebody for sponsorship.
Sometimes I wonder if I could/should work full time for Debian-Med but
I have to earn some money in any way (and need some bandwidth).
Any contacts or links to ask for Sponsorship?
> They have provided a great deal of support over the years for the
> production and dissemination of the Epi-Info project (I used to teach
> medical staff how to use it ten years or more ago) -- but although the
> software itself is free,
Do we talk about free of charge or do we talk about fitting the
DFSG (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines)?
> the source code appears to be jealously guarded
> by those who provide the M$ disk images, and so I've never seen a Un*x
> version around (although I believe one exists).
Free means the source code is Open and users are allowed to change it ...
In this case I see good chances for a UNIX port.
> It is certainly a major piece of software which should be incorporated
> into any Free Med project -- the sticking point at the moment is access
> to the source code. But as WHO are the owners (if I understand
> correctly), this should not be an insurmountable problem; even tho' most
> leads do seem to point to CDC and others in Georgia.
Could you perhaps ask for it if you know some people? I would be glad
to include it into Debian, especially people in our institute are using
it (not under Linux :-().
> (Any Epi-Info users in this group?)
I doubt that personally - but why not.
> And on a totally unrelated topic, has anyone come up with a GPLed
> library of anatomical drawings / diagrams for teaching use, do you know?
Sorry, no. But if there is one free resource in this feeld it would
be a target for packaging.
Many thanks for your hints
Andreas.
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