The Transition of the CONNECT Open Source Project into the Private Sector as Aurion Alembic Foundation Webinar March, 24, 2011
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Alembic Foundation: An Initiative for Better Health Data Sharing and Personal Data Management • Nonprofit organization (501(c)(3)) • Transformation through disruptive innovation using – open processes in – open communities to create – open technologies that are contributed to the public commons.
• Nurturing the Commons – Open Source Project Start-up and management – Open Source Community Start-up and management – Open Source Release/Distribution Management 2 © Copyright 2011, Alembic Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
Alembic Foundation: An Initiative for Better Health Data Sharing and Personal Data Management The Foundation aims to accomplish this in two ways: By serving as a neutral forum
By providing a basic toolset for
to foster collaboration with
communities of interest to
organizations and individuals
organize themselves, define
from industry, the public and
their project(s) and determine
government to confront and
the relevant governance
solve real-world challenges
structure that assures success
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Alembic Foundation: How we work • Communities – Self-organizing, self governing groups of like-minded individuals and organizations working to solve specific business challenges
• Projects – Focused initiatives undertaken by communities to produce technologies
• Technologies – Solutions developed in projects by communities
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The Aurion Project Aurion is: • an Open Source software project that will promote health IT interoperability nationwide in accordance with nationally-recognized standards • an Evolution of FHA's CONNECT Open Source Project • Aurion 3.1, released March 21, 2011 – Is the CONNECT 3.1 codebase rebranded • Aurion 4.0 release May 3, 2011 – Completes the code-refactoring begun in CONNECT 3.1 – Address major JIRA issues – Additional functionality 5 © Copyright 2011, Alembic Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
Upcoming Events
Aurion 3.1 Technical Webinar – April 5, 2011, 2-4 pm Aurion Community Town Hall – April 12, 2011, 2-4 pm Aurion Release 4.0 – May 3, 2011 Aurion 4.0 Technical Webinar – May 2011 Aurion Code-a-thon – Tentative June 2011
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