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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