The institutional implication of Tula is not technical — it is jurisdictional. By placing FHIR conversion under patient control on a personally-managed VM, the project sidesteps the data-sharing agreements that slow every hospital-to-patient handoff. The tool does not petition the system; it builds a parallel path. A live demonstration at BOSHUG on May 4 [1] puts this squarely in community-builder territory: the people normalizing this workflow are meetup attendees, not compliance officers. Projects that establish community adoption before institutional acknowledgment tend to force the institution's hand — and the open-source…