Some first impressions

[useResa]

Please find attached some first impressions of the LFC Testing Release 1.
I have performed the installation based on the iso from LinuxTracker.
Did this in a VirtualBox VM (512 MB memory and a 8 GB harddisk)
For those who wonder about the text, I did the Dutch installation ;)

Hope you like the initial screenshots.

NOTE: Image lfc_4 has been scaled down to 75% of the original to fit within the upload boundaries.

[TheForkOfJustice]

The first thing I would suggest is that instead of two menu panels, I'd only have one so it would look more windows-like.

Can't think of anything else at the moment other than removing any packages left in the first alpha by accident. Our 'base' release should be made immediately with the very basic of required packages and I hope to have that planned out well before Feisty is finalized.

[ZeroXR]

Being a pharmacy student and an Ubuntu fan, I like the splash screen designs! The red is a bit much in my opinion... I would say keep to a Red Cross colour scheme of red logos on a white backdrop as it will contrast enough and not be a strain to the eyes.

Keep it up! I would love to see the medical community break from the need to be bound by Microsoft! I know that Ubuntu has helped in the AIDS/HIV efforts with the mobile pharmacy software... If this can help the doctors, then I hope this will help young doctors trying to get their own practices up for cheap!

[shilbert]

@Zero XR

The guys over at drugref.org (website dead for some time but group still exists) always pursued the idea of an open content pharmacy database.

The guys over at GNUmed (including me) had high hopes for such a project as we are fed up with unusable , and censored drug information, let alone product placement right into your EMR.

What we proposed is the 'Adopt a drug' program for pharmacy students. In your educational environment each student should be asked to adopt a drug and compile information on it as time passes. Drug interactions, studies, FDA warnings.

One drug one student. Given the number of students in many countries around the world this shouldn't be too hard.

Does that make sense to you ?

[shilbert]

Just my 2 Euro cent

As a doctor I (personally) don't want to look at red backgrounds. At least where I work I am stressed all the time. Red makes it worse. I would like a cool (as in cold) blue.

Same goes for the background. When working we have so many open programs that we don't see or use the Desktop very often. I suggest a blue or black background with just the logo for performance reasons.

Maybe I like blue because i use SUSE instead of Ubuntu (brown).Nevertheless I feel that catchy colors are nice for presentations. Once you want people to install and work with LFC I need a toned down corporate version.

By the way. Excellent work. Nice to see there is a community.

[TheForkOfJustice]

Okay, I'll replace the red gdm theme with a cool blue. Maybe a swirl if I choose to deviate from the original design.

I'm currently trying to figure inkscape out so I can redo the logo (yet again...) to see if I can get everything looking even better.

[daynah]

Regarding looks, I think a very big display of the time and date would be nice. Maybe it's just me but a good 30% of the time I look at my computer, it's for the time.

The login screen reminded me of this. (Oh, and I'm just a paper monkey working in the office, hoping some day to do research... I don't know a lick about the details of what my bosses do at the hospitals and clinics :P )

What about accountability? I know my bosses (have their own office and are hired by various clinics and hospitals) have to log onto others computers all the time. I think it would be important to make it very easy for many, many users to be on. And already have suggested "ranks" (sudo, computer administrators, doctors, wanna-be doctors, paper-monkeys) so they can't break it.

Also, as much as you don't want to hear the word, this is an area of tons of specialty software. It may be helpful to include... wine. Or some other nonsense. As much as I know you want to have an open version of every clinic software, you aren't going to for many years, as this sort of technical software is going to be the last stuff that gets made because it has the fewest people using it.

[ZeroXR]

shilbert: Oh wow! That is definitely admirable! Ironic that I stopped in tonight, because I was talking to a co-worker/friend of mine online about my dream for medicine to go FOSS as new doctors and compound/private pharmacies will be able to bud all over the world.

I could already see a need for an open content drug database as there are many private ones, a big name one in America being Lexis Nexus. I remember checking prices for licensing (because I wanted to get a copy for my old T-mobile MDA) and the price was prohibitively expensive! It didn't help that their "Student Pricing" was still about $70 USD. If there was an open content drug database, I could see an overwhelmingly huge benefit to pharmacy students and even other medical professionals!

I do like the idea of the "Adopt a Drug" program as it allows great detail but is still open to be chiseled and refined! Especially with your great point that with hundreds of medical and health students... The database could be put together rather greatly and at a very high speed, much in the vein like Wikipedia.

I definitely love the idea!

@Zero XR

The guys over at drugref.org (website dead for some time but group still exists) always pursued the idea of an open content pharmacy database.

The guys over at GNUmed (including me) had high hopes for such a project as we are fed up with unusable , and censored drug information, let alone product placement right into your EMR.

What we proposed is the 'Adopt a drug' program for pharmacy students. In your educational environment each student should be asked to adopt a drug and compile information on it as time passes. Drug interactions, studies, FDA warnings.

One drug one student. Given the number of students in many countries around the world this shouldn't be too hard.

Does that make sense to you ?

[shilbert]

All has been set up. Now we have come to the point where students actually have to do it.
An some of them do it already

PubDrug
http://www.smbrower.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.slideshare.net/smbrower/pubdrugorg-student-presentation/

Here is how it works:
http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1193650/

[TheForkOfJustice]

All has been set up. Now we have come to the point where students actually have to do it.
An some of them do it already

PubDrug
http://www.smbrower.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.slideshare.net/smbrower/pubdrugorg-student-presentation/

Here is how it works:
http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1193650/

I do think we should put those links on our website. I'll mention it on our forum.

[TheForkOfJustice]

EDIT

Nevermind. Found a contact e-mail :)

[raja]

I am a physician and am definitely enthusiastic about this.
I ran the live cd iso in VirtualBox to have a look. From what I can see, it appears to be the standard Ubuntu version with gnumed installed. The artwork is too red in my opinion. Somehow I could not log into gnumed and try it out. I am still not sure why this is a separate distro instead of being an application. It appears that the website itself has just been hacked into, so once it is up again I will read more there.

Edit: I found from the gnu-med manual that the password should have been any-doc. Will try that again later.

[charlie85254]

I am a physician and am definitely enthusiastic about this.
I ran the live cd iso in VirtualBox to have a look. From what I can see, it appears to be the standard Ubuntu version with gnumed installed. The artwork is too red in my opinion. Somehow I could not log into gnumed and try it out. I am still not sure why this is a separate distro instead of being an application. It appears that the website itself has just been hacked into, so once it is up again I will read more there.

Edit: I found from the gnu-med manual that the password should have been any-doc. Will try that again later.
Yes we have been hacked...We will have the site back up as soon as possible...Rest assured in the end it will be much more than a standard Ubuntu+GNUmed.

Sorry I have to run off and try to repair the website:mad:

[TheForkOfJustice]

I am a physician and am definitely enthusiastic about this.
I ran the live cd iso in VirtualBox to have a look. From what I can see, it appears to be the standard Ubuntu version with gnumed installed. The artwork is too red in my opinion. Somehow I could not log into gnumed and try it out. I am still not sure why this is a separate distro instead of being an application. It appears that the website itself has just been hacked into, so once it is up again I will read more there.

Edit: I found from the gnu-med manual that the password should have been any-doc. Will try that again later.

We've added more blue to the gdm this time around. It looks a lot better.

And yes, we've been hacked by some little boy with a script. I had it back up a while ago but it seems to be back down again. I don't even have FTP access so Charlie and Rowan are going to have to call the provider :(

You can still read our forums at http://linuxforclinics.org/forums/index.php even though they seem to be "owned" at the moment.

As for our release, it will collect a bunch of medically-themed software and bring it within easy access to those who need it. There will be many packages eventually. What you saw was an 'alpha of an alpha', we were essentially just testing out everything to see how delivering a release would go.

It's not really worth the bandwidth to download, really.