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Growing the FHIRCommunity

Grahame GrieveFHIR Developer DaysNovember 18, 2014

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The FHIR Community

FHIR is a community of communities Core Team Standards (editors) Multiple implementation communities Governance Community

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The FHIR Community

Presence in HL7 work groups (email lists, phone calls) hl7.org/fhir (used to be discus there) Skype channels * n (+1) Stack Overflow Blogs Physical Meetings Connectathons!

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Community

The community is very important

Very Very important

Is it the only thing that matters?

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Challenges

Skype channel limit of 300 – we’re at 297 after culling People really like skype (or not!) Alternatives problematic

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http://fhir.org

Working on http://fhir.org – this will be: Home to FHIR Foundation List implementations Host implementation collateral (white papers,

architecture documents etc) Host open source projects (to degree desired) Host community forum