You'd be very welcome to start a project with a source code control area on www.bioforge.net, which has the resources to support exactly this sort of collaborative development. BioForge is one part of CAMBIA's comprehensive approach (the BIOS Initiative) to enabling inventive and committed people within the developing world to overcome barriers to innovation. It sounds as though it's the part of CAMBIA's work that will support exactly what you suggest. We set up Bioforge to use the communications and data transfer opportunities to build useful information connections throughout the global community of problem solvers for a variety of challenges in the life sciences. We have added technology and contractual tools for analysing issues with materials and patented technology in the life sciences, though you will readily see that for pure IT it uses the same IT tools as are used by Collabnet for supporting open source software development, e.g. at java.net. The value is in having a good platform to which anyone, whether in for-profit or non-profit enterprises and whether in developed or developing countries, can bring ideas and efforts that can be pooled and probed from any time zone by members of the community, who by registering agree to share their improvements. Kind regards, Marie Connett Porceddu CAMBIA

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Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 11:42:03 +0100 From: "Jacob Lester" jacob.lester@fdisolutions.com Subject: [TDI-discuss] Building a knowledge base.... To: tdi-discuss@tropicaldisease.org Message-ID: 012301c55483$bdba9da0$ac34a8c0@fdisolutions.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ....One thing that has come to mind whilst reading is the need for some sort of IT infrastructure for the TDi project, in particular a database and perhaps a source code control area (perhaps using sourceforge.net). Any thoughts on this? I was thinking of moving onto the following book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859960545/ref=pd_sim_b_dp_1/202-7 688707-7559031) Does anyone have any suggestions on something better? Regards, Jake ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ TDI-discuss mailing list TDI-discuss@tropicaldisease.org http://salilab.org/mailman/listinfo/tdi-discuss End of TDI-discuss Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2 *****************************************