Oshca is back
Oshca means Open Source Health Care Alliance, and this is the place where most of the open sourcers in the medical domain have been able to meet and eventually become friends.
Oshca was initially created by Brian Bray and his partners from Minoru, a company that had received a budget from the European Community to establish an open source community in ICT for health.
The first and most important achievement of Minoru probably is the Openhealth mailing list, but Oshca was the place where we could physically meet, and this is of utmost interest.
I attended the 2001 Oshca meeting in London, with the sponsorship of the NHS, and the last one in 2003 in Geneva, where the audience was much scarcer, in a little conference room kindly provided by the University Hospital of Geneva.
Brian Bray already went back in Canada and there was no longer any genuine official organization. I remember that Joseph Dal Molin and Adrian Midgley had done a pretty good work allowing this meeting to occur, and that there was a nice group of Vista boys. Anyway, it was clear that it was the end of something.
Three years after, it seems that Oshca will be born again and that the open source community will have a place to meet. This is undoubtedly a very good news… and a very good opportunity to start this blog 
