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Submitted by PeterG on Mon, 16/02/2009 - 15:52
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Hi all, it's great to see such an active discussion happening regarding the way that openVPMS works in your practice. This forum is a great place to discuss and hopefully solve problems you may have as well as presenting ideas for features that may be developed in future releases.
Speaking as the volunteer who balances the books, liases with accountants, handles subscriptions and pays the bills I would like to remind the user community that the very fact that we can discuss our wishlist on this forum is an enormous plus for OpenVPMS. Knowing that realistically we can expect that changes we see as being important can be developed either for the whole community or just for ourselves is pretty unique in veterinary computing in this country (and probably the world).
Along with this privilege comes a huge obligation, that is to see that if we want change then we have to be prepared to unify into groups that are prepared (through these discussions) to develop rational and workable ideas for improvement and then contribute financially to the cost of paying our programmer Tim to do the work. A lot of people have contributed to the core development of what is now a brilliant, stable system for our industry and now it is time for us all to maintain the momentum of development in the direction that WE want, to support the professional IT people that give so much of their own time to the project (Tony De Keizer, Gerrie, Tim) but who have to make a living out of it, and make this product our own.
Tony will best be able to explain this to us but if we all wanted to enhance the reminder interface to work more effectively the interested parties could form a working group to work out a set of specification, get a quote from the programmer then seek funding for the job. Because OpenVPMS would then provide a tax invoice to clinics for software support and development it should be a legitimate business expense.
Please tell me what you think about the concept of community involvement in software development.
Peter

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Submitted by paravet (not verified) on Wed, 18/02/2009 - 07:43.

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Re: My Wishlist

Submitted by Gerrie (not verified) on Wed, 18/02/2009 - 18:01.
Hi All... :)  I agree with Peter that the forum is a great resource for sharing ideas, reporting problems, making suggestions... The more we all contribute, the more everyone will get out of it! :)  To me, the "how do you want it to work?" question that we see coming up from time to time is really important. Its amazing how two clinics can both want a particular feature included - but have very different ideas about how it should work... Its much easier for the developers if they understand the "how" before they start development rather than after a feature has been included in a release. :)  Keep up the chatter :)  Gerrie   Gerrie Cooney BSc Business Development Consultant  Essentia Consulting 

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On 16/02/2009, at 2:52 PM, pgooey@boroniavet.com.au wrote:

Hi all, it's great to see such an active discussion happening regarding the way that openVPMS works in your practice. This forum is a great place to discuss and hopefully solve problems you may have as well as presenting ideas for features that may be developed in future releases. Speaking as the volunteer who balances the books, liases with accountants, handles subscriptions and pays the bills I would like to remind the user community that the very fact that we can discuss our wishlist on this forum is an enormous plus for OpenVPMS. Knowing that realistically we can expect that changes we see as being important can be developed either for the whole community or just for ourselves is pretty unique in veterinary computing in this country (and probably the world).Along with this privilege comes a huge obligation, that is to see that if we want change then we have to be prepared to unify into groups that are prepared (through these discussions)  to develop rational and workable ideas for improvement and then contribute financially to the cost of paying our programmer Tim to do the work. A lot of people have contributed to the core development of what is now a brilliant, stable system for our industry and now it is time for us all to maintain the momentum of development in the direction that WE want, to support the professional IT people that give so much of their own time to the project (Tony De Keizer, Gerrie, Tim) but who have to make a living out of it, and make this product our own. Tony will best be able to explain this to us but if we all wanted to enhance the reminder interface to work more effectively the interested parties could form a working group to work out a set of specification, get a quote from the programmer then seek funding for the job. Because OpenVPMS would then provide a tax invoice to clinics for software support and development it should be a legitimate business expense.Please tell me what you think about the concept of community involvement in software development.Peter_______________________________________________OpenVPMS User Mailing Listusers@lists.openvpms.orgTo unsubscribe or change your subscription visit:http://lists.openvpms.org/mailman/listinfo/usersPosts from this mailing list can be viewed online and replied to in the OpenVPMS User's forum- http://tinyurl.com/openvfu

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