Looking for another TriSano™ Core Developer

We are looking for another Core Developer to join our CSI TriSano™ team. CSI TriSano™ is an open source, citizen-focused surveillance and outbreak management system for infectious disease, environmental hazards, and bioterrorism attacks.

You can live anywhere in North America.

Our team is distributed and very tight. We have members of the team in Portland, Ore, Boston, MA, Cleveland, OH, and Indianapolis, IN., and Washington DC. We use open source and Lean techniques in our pursuit of greatness.

Check out CSI TriSano™ Enterprise Edition Core Developer Job Description.

To learn more about the project see: TriSano™ Community Site

To learn more about the product see: TriSano™ Product Page

Email me if interested: mike@csinitiative.com

TriSano Perf Notes - JRuby & Postgres

We've been doing a little bit of rudimentary perf testing for TriSano lately on our test infrastructure at OSL SA'd by Lance Albertson. We haven't turned a whole lot of knobs yet, but we are seeing some rather exciting trends in Postgres and JRuby.

In upgrading from Postres 8.2 to 8.3 we saw some crazy improvement with inserts. Check it. Selena Deckelmann our favorite Postgres person (and trusted consultant) explained that this was due to HOT. Nice! When we first ran it, we didn't believe it so we re-ran it a couple times before we believed it. Much rejoicing on that one.

With JRuby, were seeing impressive improvement between 1.1.3 and 1.1.5 in terms of speed & memory usage. I love watching big honkn' GCs. Check it 1.1.6RC1 isn't showing a whole lot of difference for TriSano in our testing yet. JRuby 1.1.6 Final is due next week. The JRuby project is on a pretty wicked trajectory. Exciting stuff. We really can't say enough about the JRuby guys.

TriSano uses Rails - we haven't had the chance to upgrade to Rails 2.2 yet, but we'll do that next year. That will be another exciting perf test to watch in terms of memory footprint given the multi-threadedness of 2.2. Exciting stuff.

1 Sales Engineer, Please

Collaborative Software Initiative is on the hunt for a killer experienced Sales Engineer.

Interested?

Email us.

Update 18-OCT:

This position is actually called "Technical Director" its a key role in both project forming and productization. The intersection of business, market and technical strategy ...

TriSano @ GOSCON

Come hear all about TriSano at GOSCON.

I'll be speaking with David Jackson, from the State of Utah.

Here is our session overview: Applying Open Source Methodologies to Build Public Health Software Collaboratively.

Some exciting stuff is happening in government facilitated by collaboration and open source. Come hear about it.

TriSano Project Annoucement

TriSano is now open source.

Check it out!

TriSano.org

This is an exciting day for the TriSano team & Collaborative Software Initiative.

From the project annoucement:

Collaborative Software Initiative today announces the launch of the TriSano application and community. TriSano is an open source, citizen-focused infectious disease surveillance system that allows local, state and federal entities to collaborate for the good of public health.

With TriSano, the Collaborative Software Initiative provides a forum in which subject matter experts (i.e., doctors, nurses and epidemiologists) and software developers work together to facilitate the cre-ation of citizen-centric public health applications. This innovation ensures application features meet the specific requirements of each jurisdiction, allowing public health employees to achieve the goal of protecting lives.

See What is TriSano for name explanation. And say it with me ... its pronouced "tri-SAH-no" :)

Update Added the logo because I love it. Our talented UI dude Odanrot did it. That is Tornado spelled backwards (how cool is that?). Here is what it means:

The TriSano™ Eye represents a zooming (micro/macro) view on disease detection and prevention..

That is as close as I'm ever going to get to a bird of prey reference in a product. I love birds of prey. They have binoculars for eyes just like TriSano. Its true. Look it up.