Information and Knowledge Management using ArcGIS ModelBuilder

Jose Teixeira and Reima Suomi
from the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (2009) and it seems to be
targeted for patients with fat-related diseases. Besides being a project based on web technologies,
the developer is not providing any kind of Internet service, and it is suggested that end-user should
install and run the software in their own computer, warning of serious risks with posting health
information on any site on Internet. In a wiki supporting the project development he states his believe
that individuals should be able to keep their personal health data organized and still private (MyShi
software project page, 2010). A bundle software archive containing both the software and its source
code can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/myshi/, 0.03b Beta was the latest
release. The project is available only in the English language and some software source code
comments suggest that the developer is from the United States. Within the MyShi software project
page, retrieved on the seventh of April 2010 the developer states that the software “is about all that
stuff we maybe should be tracking but don't because it's not easy. diet, weight, blood pressure,
exercise etc” and that “MySHI is open source and development is driven by the uses” revealing the
user-driven nature of the project. It was important to observe that this project had a single software
developer contributing to the project.
Project C: Pump Download
Third open-source software in our research is named Pump Download and its software artifacts can
be downloaded from its Internet site at http://pumpdownload.sourceforge.net/. Current software available
version is 2.0 Beta and it is available only in the English language. The lead developer personal blog
revealed his nationality to be Canadadian. Within the project main webpage, the developer expresses
some of his project initiative motivations, below quoted, that together with some software source code
give a strong evidence of his diabetic health condition:
“I got tired of software that had ugly interfaces and produced bad records. A few
companies which will go unnamed, make great insulin pumps and meters, but write
horrible software. None of them work on Linux, and they only support one insulin pump,
or one meter.” (PumpDownload software project page, 2010).
The project was launched in January 2006 and and it was downloaded 342 time by the beginning of
April 2010. This download number keep it far away from a sourceforge.net popular software
application status, however we must have in consideration that this project is targeting the very
specific diabetics public. Our observation noted that the download peaks shown in Figure 2 are
correlated with the release of new software versions, suggesting that the project maintains a set of
final users that look out for upgrading the software at every new release.
Figure 2: PumpDownload downloads and bandwidth evolution (http//sourceforge.net 2010)
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