Next Meeting - Saturday AM or Tuesday PM? - Progress, Advisors, CSS, Etc
Brendan Levy
available. If you could just email me back (brend...@gmail.com) to
let me know whether Saturday Morning at 12AM CST or 5PM CST on Tuesday
would work for you. I am shooting for just an hour long discussion.
-> Progress
We made some great progress in the first weeks and many things function
beautifully. I think that we are actually drawing close to a point where
we could show this software to someone and they would have a very good
idea of the overall functionality.
-> Goals
We need to set some goals for the next two week block. I would like to
see something fully if rudimentarily functional in terms of adding
patients, data, problems, and prescriptions so that I can draft a couple
use testers for at least one run through. I will try to clear more time
for myself these next two weeks and hope I can help spearhead that work
(to the extent of my coding ability)
-> Advisors and Outside Progress
I am formally signing up our board of advisors so that if we choose to
pursue grant funding in the future we will have some people to help
guide us in the process. First one:
Michael Rainwater - VP of Operations of a high technology company
dealing with sophisticated data management and transaction processing
systems - 20 years. Experience in OLTP, database design & large system
project management. Board of Trustees of the Evergreen State College -
4 years.
Which is actually a modest description, he actually founded the company
with two friends, built it to a few dozen employees and a global
operation and recently sold it to an international firm
(http://www.tieto.com/) - so he has time to help us.
-> CSS
Also I apologize to those who have done all the great work on the CSS so
far, I just changed it pretty radically. I found that many of the
template pages were becoming very hard to read and the CSS was growing
pretty rapidly so I changed over the the Blueprint CSS framework that I
have used in the past and removed a fair number of tags.
I realize that the site looks a bit worse now but I will get it back up
to snuff shortly and I think that right now we can't afford to make our
templates too difficult to read and edit.
I think we should probably discuss how we want to do CSS in the future
(or if we want to roll back my changes), because I think much as
presentation is supposed to be separated it has a significant impact on
all of our code and therefore deserves some input.
Yours,
Brendan