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<h2 style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em; width:50%;">October 12, 2015:</h2>
[[File:LIMSforum Large.png|left|180px]]<br />'''The tangentially related [[LIMSforum]]''' — a leading forum on laboratory, medical, and scientific informatics — has moved again due to unfortunate changes by the host LinkedIn. Forum moderator John Jones [http://www.limsforum.com/forum/the-limsforum-group-is-moving-from-linkedin/ explained it this way]:


"All, it is with regret that I must make the decision to leave Linkedin as the forum for our group. Linkedin has planned changes that will make this group unworkable. We believe strongly in open information and Linkedin is planning changes that would severely disrupt this. However, there is good news... I have planned for this day and knew that Linkedin would pull some sort of bone head idea like this, so I have been working on a complete new site that will let us all carry on our great discussions and a whole lot more. You will be able to login with your Linkedin account and continue as usual."
<h2 style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em; width:50%;">August 24, 2021:</h2>
[[File:Cloud-computing-1.gif|left|180px]] '''I'm pleased to announce the release''' of several new guides! First we have ''[[LII:Choosing and Implementing a Cloud-based Service for Your Laboratory|Choosing and Implementing a Cloud-based Service for Your Laboratory]]''. This one has been a long while in the making, but we finally have it out in all its first edition glory. This guide examines the current state of [[cloud computing]] and the security mechanisms inherent to it, especially in regards to how they relate to today's [[Laboratory|laboratories]]. The guide also, necessarily, addresses organizational risk management before actually getting into the nuts and bolts of how the lab can benefit from cloud-based informatics applications such as [[laboratory information management system]]s (LIMS). In particular, this guide emphasizes the connection between the laboratory's [[quality control]] personnel and efforts towards maintaining the secure use of cloud applications in the lab. It also addresses the usefulness of managed security services before getting into selecting them and other cloud providers, and the RFI procedures that can benefit the selection process. Several appendices provide extra contextual information to your provider selection journey.  


The forum is now hosted at [http://www.limsforum.com/forum/ http://www.limsforum.com/forum/] and can still be used with your LinkedIn ID.  
Secondly, the ''[[cannaqawiki:RefWork:LIMS Buyer’s Guide for Cannabis Testing Laboratories|LIMS Buyer’s Guide for Cannabis Testing Laboratories]]'' is live on our sister wiki, CannaQAwiki. This guide recognizes the challenges of the current cannabis testing environment for laboratories and identifies the value of the LIMS towards lessening the impact of those challenges on the cannabis testing lab. Happy reading!


[[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 15:23, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
[[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 17:56, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
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<h2 style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em; width:50%;">June 15, 2015:</h2>
[[File:Sourceforge logo.png|left|220px]]<br />'''I've been following the antics of open-source hosting site SourceForge''' for several years now, wanting to give them a chance to turn a sinking ship around with better, more community-friendly tactics. However, it's become clear to me within the last week that the people running the site have fully managed to drive the site off the cliff, never to return to respectability. The site has been packing crappy add-ons and bloatware with select popular software packages for quite some time, but lately the site owners have gone too far. While the need to monetize the site to pay for hosting seems reasonable, the owners of the site have gotten out of hand. (Actually, they don't even pay that much for hosting, if anything, depending on the generosity of others to [http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mirrors/ mirror the site].)  


Major projects have been leaving SourceForge in droves, but that hasn't stopped the SourceForge team from doing more harm: they resorted to [http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/sourceforge-locked-in-projects-of-fleeing-users-cashed-in-on-malvertising/ taking over abandoned accounts] and repackaging software with malware, etc. Calls for [http://www.itworld.com/article/2935377/open-source-tools/the-slow-death-of-sourceforge.html other projects to leave SourceForge] have gotten louder over the past few days, with the team of well-regarded text editor [https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-leaves-sf.html Notepad++ being the latest to leave] while encouraging others to do the same.
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We've been linking directly to SourceForge pages for most of our [[:Category:Open-source software|open-source software pages]], but that will now end. External links to SourceForge on open-source pages will be removed, though a text comment will remain if the project can ONLY be found on SourceForge. It will then be up to the user to decide to visit SourceForge and search for the project there. We do not wish for LIMSwiki users to fall prey to their unfriendly tactics, thus the changes. (Clarification: SourceForge-based citations used to document history will remain, per wiki policy. Only external stand-alone links are being removed.)
<h2 style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em; width:50%;">July 1, 2021:</h2>
[[File:Kings college 1770.gif|left|180px]] '''This quick update is to inform you''' that after some neglect, the [[LIMSWiki:Resources/Education|education section of the LIMSwiki Resource center]] has finally received an update. Time was short to check everything in each higher education facility's record, but all education program URLs were verfied and updated extensively. In a few cases, additional or new programs were added when found. This resource was originally developed in 2013, and in 2016 it received an update. It was very much in need of a refresh (particularly after the [[COVID-19]] [[pandemic]] ravaged many higher education programs), and I finally found a little time to get it done. Happy educational program hunting!
 
[[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 23:49, 1 July 2021 (UTC)


[[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 18:24, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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Revision as of 18:09, 24 August 2021

August 24, 2021:

I'm pleased to announce the release of several new guides! First we have Choosing and Implementing a Cloud-based Service for Your Laboratory. This one has been a long while in the making, but we finally have it out in all its first edition glory. This guide examines the current state of cloud computing and the security mechanisms inherent to it, especially in regards to how they relate to today's laboratories. The guide also, necessarily, addresses organizational risk management before actually getting into the nuts and bolts of how the lab can benefit from cloud-based informatics applications such as laboratory information management systems (LIMS). In particular, this guide emphasizes the connection between the laboratory's quality control personnel and efforts towards maintaining the secure use of cloud applications in the lab. It also addresses the usefulness of managed security services before getting into selecting them and other cloud providers, and the RFI procedures that can benefit the selection process. Several appendices provide extra contextual information to your provider selection journey.

Secondly, the LIMS Buyer’s Guide for Cannabis Testing Laboratories is live on our sister wiki, CannaQAwiki. This guide recognizes the challenges of the current cannabis testing environment for laboratories and identifies the value of the LIMS towards lessening the impact of those challenges on the cannabis testing lab. Happy reading!

Shawn Douglas (talk) 17:56, 24 August 2021 (UTC)


 

July 1, 2021:

Kings college 1770.gif

This quick update is to inform you that after some neglect, the education section of the LIMSwiki Resource center has finally received an update. Time was short to check everything in each higher education facility's record, but all education program URLs were verfied and updated extensively. In a few cases, additional or new programs were added when found. This resource was originally developed in 2013, and in 2016 it received an update. It was very much in need of a refresh (particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged many higher education programs), and I finally found a little time to get it done. Happy educational program hunting!

Shawn Douglas (talk) 23:49, 1 July 2021 (UTC)