Fwd: ASF and Healthcare initiative

[Javi Roman <jr...@gmail.com>]

Probably this family (cTakes) is interested in this discussion I'm
proposing. Please contribute if you are interested!

Many thanks!
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From: Javi Roman <jr...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 7:44 AM
Subject: ASF and Healthcare initiative
To: <de...@community.apache.org>


Hi community!

I would like to share with you an idea that I am thinking about lately.

The idea is to create a project around Healthcare and ASF projects: As you
know, the world of health and big data are increasingly related, with
international initiatives to take advantage of massive data processing in
the health sector.

This project/initiative could be a site (healthcare.apache.org  and a
mailing list healthcare@apache.org). The site would be an information site
about:

1. ASF projects directly related with healthcare such as ctakes.apache.org,
uima.apache.org
ASF projects with components useful for the health sector:
opennlp.apache.org, solr.apache.org, nifi.apache.org (HL7 processors
family), beam.apache.org (Google Cloud Healthcare HL7v2 API) and so forth.
2. References architectures for healthcare sector (based on ASF projects).
3. Entry point for all content related to ASF and Healthcare (past
presentations about CTakes in the ApacheCon @Home 2020).

Focusing attention on the health sector, it would be an opportunity to give
visibility to the ASF projects and how open source and Apache Way can help
in something as universal as health (especially at the time when we are
living on world alert). Other benefits, from my point of view, would be:

1. Attract new projects in the Incubator, there are many open source
projects related to health.
2. Get new sponsors and donations (even from the public sector).
3. Lead a global movement towards something as relevant as improving global
health using technology as openly as possible.

What do you think? I know this is not a new software project, it is an
initiative (something similar to iot@apache.org, or training.apache.org).