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+I'm off to Spain next week, for some sun, sightseeing and [[Debian|https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/Europe/2016/DSC]], but before I left, I decided to attend the [[NHS Hack Day|http://nhshackday.com/]] over this weekend (14th and 15th of May 2016).
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+The day started with presentations, and at first I was interested by many of them. The [[spreadsheet is still online|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dQPCI15vpVJOEgcfuWof_szRGpBHk1in9HJ9ryM1EM8/edit#gid=0]], but I put the following projects on my shortlist:
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+ - Better blood results
+ - British english medical spelling dictionary
+ - CAMHS Inpatient Bed Finder
+ - Daily pollute
+ - Rota Manager
+ - Dockerised integration engine
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+After doing some walking and talking to different people in the room, I ended up sitting with Mike and Tony who work in the NHS at King's College Hospital as developers and were behind the "Dockerised intergration engine" project, and [[Piete|http://www.pietersartain.com/]] who has some experience with system architecture and Docker in particular.
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+After a bit of discussion, it turned out that the main problems that Mike and Tony had, was that they were using tools, both for a framework, and deployment processes that they did not have much experience with, and this manifested in having one large "monolith", which required restarting when changes to any component were required.
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+At this point, I left Piete, Mike and Tony to work on just setting up a smaller isolated service, using Docker and NodeJS, which Tony already knew a bit about, but was interested in getting more experience in.
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+Now it was lunchtime, and I ended up sitting with [[Calum|http://www.calumjeadie.com]] (who I have met before at [[Many to Many|http://www.manytomany.co.uk/]]) and [[Devon|https://github.com/divinenephron]], who had proposed the "British English medical spelling dictionary" project earlier in the morning.
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+We decided to have a go at this project, and set about working out the goals, and what work would be required to achieve them. I ended up doing some research in to generating a wordlist (which we ended up not doing), the initial tweaks to the website style, and attempting to create a extension for LibreOffice which would install a dictionary (which was not finished).
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+The [[website|https://medical-spell-checker-dictionary.github.io/]] and corresponding [[Git repository|https://github.com/medical-spell-checker-dictionary/medical-spell-checker-dictionary.github.io]] for the website and project can give a detailed information about the actual work that was done.
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+As is the case sometimes with these events, the real value is found in the conversations had both on the topic, as was the case when I was discussing the problems that Mike and Tony face day to day, and the discussions I had with Devon, Calum and others, both at the even, and on Saturday evening in the pub on diverse topics of software (including free software, Guix and Debian) and [[Matt|https://twitter.com/mattmhartley]] about some of his work and background.
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+All in all, I'm glad I took the time to attend.