[med-svn] r5552 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg

[Steffen Möller]

Author: moeller
Date: 2010-12-09 12:39:29 +0000 (Thu, 09 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5552

Modified:
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
Series of changes to abstract.


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 08:46:08 UTC (rev 5551)
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 \begin{abstract}
   The \DebianMed project started in 2002 with the objective to bring
-  free medical software into the focus of users. The first step was
-  the investigation of available Free Software in this area and to
-  accomplish the conditions for a simple and solid installation of
-  this software in Debian GNU/Linux.  It has shown that the \DebianMed
-  project has a positive effect for the cooperating upstream projects.
+  free medical software into the focus of users. Those may be IT
+  service providers for smaller clinics, the doctors themselves,
+  researchers in pre-clinical environments or just skilled enthusiasts
+  with an ambition to apply their talents the biomedical domain.
 
-  The fields molecular biology and medical imaging had a number of
-  high-quality Free Software solutions and there are even Free Software
-  projects to help managing a medical practice. The \DebianMed project tries
-  to serve as the link between developers and users to support Free
-  Software solutions for all fields of medicine.
+  At the time, the communities in computational biology, medical
+  imaging and medical informatics already had a number of
+  high-quality Free Software solutions. Debian as a Linux distribution
+  helped in bringing those packages together. And the \DebianMed project 
+  provides a software management infrastructure to help the
+  communication between those who provide those packages, e.g. to
+  identify missing glue packages to translate data formats or to
+  point out conflicts in the naming of binaries.
 
-  \DebianMed is intended to be useful for service providers who want
-  to distribute their free or proprietary solutions in medical care.
+  Over the past decade, it has shown that the integrative
+  \DebianMed project has positive effects beyond the regular Debian users.
+  Many ties between those providing the packages and those who develop
+  the software have been established. Larger development teams upload
+  their Debian packages directly. This communicates the experience
+  of the developers back into the distribution.
 
-  The whole project is embedded into the Debian Pure Blends framework
-  alongside Debian Edu, Debian Science and others.
+  The ideas behind the Debian Med evolved into the concept of
+  Debian Bends. Today, there are blends forming Debian Edu,
+  Debian Science and others. \marginpar{which?}
 \end{abstract}
 
+%Taken out:
+%  \DebianMed is intended to be useful for service providers who want
+%  to distribute their free or proprietary solutions in medical care.
+%
+%  The first step was
+%  the investigation of available Free Software in this area and to
+%  accomplish the conditions for a simple and solid installation of
+%  this software in Debian GNU/Linux.
+%for the cooperating upstream projects.
+%  serves as the link between developers and users to support Free
+%  Software solutions for all fields of medicine.
 
+
 \section{Introduction}
 
 \subsection{Motivation and purpose of \DebianMed}