[Pdx-pm] Re: Pdx-pm-list Digest, SQL Clinic

[Adam Stearns]

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. MMT grant (david pool)
>    2. Re: MMT grant (Ovid)
>    3. Re: MMT grant (Tom Phoenix)
>    4. Re: MMT grant (Jeff Zucker)
>    5. Re: MMT grant (david pool)
>    6. Re: MMT grant (darthsmily)
>    7. Re: MMT grant (Austin Schutz)
>    8. meeting location (Josh Heumann)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:16:22 -0800
> From: david pool <dpool at hevanet.com>
> Subject: [Pdx-pm] MMT grant
> To: pdx pm <pdx-pm-list at pm.org>
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> My fellow perlmongers,
> 
> Recently Meyer Memorial Trust funded a local
> nonprofit mental health
> center out in Hillsboro for a grant that would
> convert them over to open
> source software.
> 
> The grant is being run through Collaborative
> Technologies, a recent 
> addition to Free Geek. The central component of the
> project
> is replacing the center's patient tracking system,
> which had been 
> developed in Access.
> 
> We found an existing open source project that's
> mature, reasonably full 
> featured and written in Perl. The project just
> wrapped up version 2.3, 
> and we're begining to work with Tom Good, the
> project leader, on what 
> will be SQL Clinic 3.0 (codename Portland) when we
> finish. Tom is 
> delightful.
> 
> This is an important first experiment with open
> source software for 
> Meyer Memorial Trust. Although this grant is a small
> one, MMT hands out 
> about $15 million a year in Oregon and SW Washington
> each year.
> 
> If all goes well, it's a good bet they'll be funding
> more projects. I'm 
> hoping that some of the perlmongers would consider
> pitching in some 
> volunteer time to help make this first one a big
> success.
> 
> I don't usually present things at the Perlmongers
> meetings, but if 
> people were interested I'd be happy to talk about
> the project a little. 
> In fact if people are interested I could see if Ron
> Braithewaite, the 
> Collaborative Technologies Coordinator, could come
> give a general overview.
> 
> Is anyone interested?
> 
> david pool
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:30:33 -0800 (PST)
> From: Ovid <curtis_ovid_poe at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pdx-pm] MMT grant
> To: david pool <dpool at hevanet.com>, pdx pm
> <pdx-pm-list at pm.org>
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> --- david pool <dpool at hevanet.com> wrote:
> > I don't usually present things at the Perlmongers
> meetings, but if 
> > people were interested I'd be happy to talk about
> the project a
> > little. 
> > In fact if people are interested I could see if
> Ron Braithewaite, the
> > 
> > Collaborative Technologies Coordinator, could come
> give a general
> > overview.
> > 
> > Is anyone interested?
> 
> I would certainly be interested to hear about this. 
> It's nice to have
> meetings that stretch out beyond "here's something
> neat you can do with
> Perl" -- though I will confess that I still prefer
> the latter :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Ovid
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:41:24 -0800 (PST)
> From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer at redcat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pdx-pm] MMT grant
> To: david pool <dpool at hevanet.com>
> Cc: pdx pm <pdx-pm-list at pm.org>
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> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, david pool wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone interested?

My experience with DBM is a little limited (a little
back-end www work is about it), but I would be excited
to help in anyway I can and would love to hear more
about the project at the next meeting (which will be
my first). Look forward to meeting everyone then.

-Adam Stearns
adam at dukboi.com