Please join us for the Visualization Open Source Project Group call today at 1:00pm Eastern. OSEHRA is transitioning to a new meeting software called Zoom. So please allow extra time for downloads or other joining issues. The call-in information is below:
Hi there,
OSEHRA Meeting Line 1 is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
We're back! Please join us tomorrow, September 19 at 2 pm Eastern time (10 am Pacific time) for the weekly meeting of the VA-PALS group. We'll be showing the current user interface and forms, before taking a deep dive into security considerations. Non-technical folks will be interested in the first part, but probably not the second. We hope to see everyone there!
Please join us for the Certification Working Group Call today at 1:00PM Eastern where we will continue with the Final Review for the second revision of the Non-Kernel Fixes submission!
Don't forget, we still have a new meeting program!
OSEHRA is transitioning from Webex to Zoom. The connection information for the Zoom meeting is found below and will be used for the future meetings:
OSEHRA’s Board of Directors met last week, and while reviewing the nominees for this year's Board member election, decided to exercise one of two available Board expansion seats. Prior to this meeting, we were poised to start the Board election today, with Robert Missroon of DSS, Inc. running unopposed for the Open Source Industry Seat, and two candidates for the Organizational Membership Seat (Mike O’Neill, of Medicasoft, and George Rollins, of Perspecta).
This week marks 27 years since Linus Torvalds first announced his “hobby operating system” to the world through a newsgroup post. Today Linux powers numerous facets of the world’s infrastructure and is a thriving legacy system because of successful open source practices. It has become the best-known open source operating system and we are delighted to see many within our community sharing their memories and excitement.
In addition to the official Summit proceedings, there were several noteworthy side discussions / activities on VistA.
1) The Joint Legacy Viewer was found to contain code injection into VistA. This is pretty well recognized as a “bad practice” from a security perspective. OSEHRA notified VA, and the code has been removed.
OSEHRA’s Seventh Annual Summit closed this afternoon, Friday, July 20, with a spirited discussion on open source licensing and code contribution. This year’s event included speakers from ten different Government agencies, our widest participation in our history.
