[Pdx-pm] Re: Pdx-pm-list Digest, SQL Clinic
Adam Stearns
adam_stearns at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 4 12:39:30 CST 2004
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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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> Ovid
> http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=17000
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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
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