Remote Participation in the FHIR Connectathon

Dec 12, 2012

We’ve had a request to participate in the FHIR connectathon remotely. In other words, people would like to participate in the Connectathon, but won’t be in Phoenix. Is that possible? Well, maybe. At the last connectathon, most - but not all - servers were in the cloud. And given that the cloud servers are generally available continuously anyway, the real point of the connectathon is that

  • People are fully focused on the task at hand
  • The dynamics of a face to face group meeting

Remote participants miss out on the second - and it’s important. So some degree, video conferencing via skype or something may fill some of the gap - but generally these techniques are very poor substitutes for actually attending.

So we’re thinking about whether we’ll support remote participation, and if so how. But one factor in the deliberations is how many people want to participate like that - we don’t know.

If you think that you would like to participate, but can’t partake in