Adam Retter

adam@evolvedbinary.com
 

GOSEHR
@ St Edmund Hall, Oxford
2024-04-05

@adamretter

• Director of Evolved Binary

  • UK - Software, Consultancy, Training, and R&D

• Co-founder of eXist Solutions

  • Germany - TEI Software

• Software Engineer / Prolific Open Source contributor

• Enjoys R&D

• Involved in several conference boards or peer-review panels

• W3C XQuery Working Group - Invited expert

• Founder of EXQuery group, and creator of RESTXQ

• Me: www.adamretter.org.uk

• I live on a mountain!

• Privately Owned, and Self-Bootstrapped

• UK Registered Ltd Company, founded: April 2014

• Around 10 FTE staff (unconventional hiring)

  • Growth: 2020 (1 FTE) to 2024 (9 FTE)

• Fully Remote (UK, Italy, Germany, Algeria, Turkey, Dubai)

• Specialisms:

  • Database Engines

  • Health Informatics

  • Digital Archiving, Preservation, and Archival Catalogues

  • Digital Humanities

  • Digital Publishing

• We have worked with Professor John Chelsom

  • Training

  • Technical Expertise

• We are experts in the technologies that underpin cityEHR

• We would like to contribute to cityEHR:

  • Release Engineering

  • Simplified Software Installation Process

  • Open Source Community Advice/Support

  • Software Security

  • Performance and Scalability

  • Cloud Operations

  • Bug Fixes

  • New Features

• cityEHR Software:

  • Code is now under version control: https://github.com/cityehr/cityehr

  • Releases are immutable and labelled: https://github.com/cityEHR/cityehr/tags

  • New easy to use Build system: README.md

    • Standalone - Tomcat is no longer required

    • Docker images

• cityEHR Documentation Project:

  • Credit goes to Jennifer Ramirez-Betancur

  • International open standard: LwDITA

  • Now under version control: https://github.com/cityehr/cityehr-documentation

  • Automated - Latest Website and PDF is built on demand: https://cityehr.github.io/cityehr-documentation/

  • Petal - Visual documentation editor: e.g. Edit the Introduction page...

• cityEHR Cloud Based:

  • Teaching Environment: https://github.com/cityEHR/cityehr-workshop-vm-setup

    • Open Source

    • Configuration as Code

    • Anyone can setup a teaching environment

  • Demo Systems: https://github.com/cityEHR/cityehr-demo-server-setup

    • Open Source

    • Configuration as Code

    • Anyone can setup a Demo Server of their EHR