[med-svn] r5564 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg

Yaroslav Halchenko yoh at alioth.debian.org
Thu Dec 9 15:18:55 UTC 2010


Author: yoh
Date: 2010-12-09 15:18:54 +0000 (Thu, 09 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5564

Modified:
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
more changes/comments in intro

Modified: trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
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--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-09 15:18:52 UTC (rev 5563)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-09 15:18:54 UTC (rev 5564)
@@ -65,8 +65,14 @@
 the community as much as possible to develop itself and to develop
 the contacts to their users. Debian as a Linux distribution already
 supports the distribution of the software, rendering it instantly
-available. It further reduces the packaging work by allowing to
-depend on other packages. \DebianMed complements this with a platform
+available. Modularization aspect of Debian does not only reduces the packaging work by allowing to
+depend on other packages, it allows for easier maintenance of the
+complete system since updates and fixes in the core libraries most
+of the time do
+not require end-user software upgrade. Binary building across the
+largest number of supported hardware platforms and extensive quality
+assurance assure robust performance of the deployed Debian system.
+\DebianMed complements Debian infrastructure with a platform
 for the communication between all involved parties.
 
 %Obtaining reliable information about all these projects is a big problem
@@ -79,7 +85,7 @@
 
 Web search engines pick up the software tools and their descriptions
 on the Debian Med task pages. Beyond mere lists or announcement
-sites, e.g. Freshmeat.net, with Debian the user can almost instantly
+sites, e.g. Freshmeat.net, any Debian user can almost instantly
 start evaluating the software on the local computer.
 
 
@@ -87,34 +93,40 @@
 \subsection{Status of Free Software in health care}
 
 More common programs like a web server, or a mail user agent are installed
-manigfold and have a very large user base. This increases the chance to
-attract gifted programmers have an almost intiutive spontaneous
+manigfold and have a very large user base. This increases the chance to  \marginpar{what \emph{manigfold} was supposed to be?}
+attract gifted programmers who could have an almost intiutive spontaneous
 understanding on the structure of the control flow of the program
-(by understanding the problem domain extremely well) and can map
+(by understanding the problem domain extremely well) and could map
 this to the source code (since they would have solve the problem
-in a similar way). Any change they just need for themselves they
-could implement without too much of a personal investment, and for
+in a similar way).  Such users are really valuable since they can
+implement any change they need for themselves
+without too much of a personal investment and contribute it back to
+the project.  For the
 lager challenges there may be many different driving forces coming
-together.
+together. \marginpar{explain?}
 
 The fact that a piece of software is needed for one's own work is often
 the basic motivation to write Free Software.  Biological software is
-frequently developed by scientists because they are the only
-person with insight in a particular topic and the development is
+frequently developed by scientists themselves because they are the only
+ones with the insight in a particular topic and the development is
 inseparable from their research.  Many authors of
 such software realised the gains in prestige, feedback and the faster
 development of scientific progress that is expected from sharing their
 code and thus the field of computational biology is really well covered by Free
 Software.
 
-Another quite well equipped part of \DebianMed is medical imaging.
+Reciprocal domains shared with the researchers in other fields of
+science benefits \DebianMed.  So common interest in neuroimaging software allowed
+NeuroDebian project \cite{neurodebian} to significantly contribute to
+\DebianMed coverage of medical imaging software.
 Even if important packages like Bio Image Suite
-\cite{bioimagesuite:2008} are not yet packaged for Debian, first steps are
-done and there is quite a variety of DICOM viewers and development
-tools as well as other software which is of particular utility in medical
+\cite{bioimagesuite:2008} are not yet packaged for Debian,
+there is already an extensive coverage of viewers, data analysis pipelines, and development
+tools supporting  a variety of existing data formats (\emph{e.g.}
+DICOM, NIfTI) as well as other software products of particular utility in medical
 imaging.
 
-Medical health record applications in patient management 
+Medical health record applications in patient management
 are considered essential by most people.
 Currently, the only representative of this software
 included in Debian is GNUmed \cite{gnumed:2008}.  It has turned out




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