[med-svn] r5578 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg

[Michael Hanke]

Author: mih
Date: 2010-12-10 01:16:03 +0000 (Fri, 10 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5578

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   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
On motivation

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	2010-12-10 00:59:18 UTC (rev 5577)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-10 01:16:03 UTC (rev 5578)
@@ -45,14 +45,16 @@
 
 \subsection{Motivation and purpose of \DebianMed}
 
-The advent of \DebianMed was stimulated by the rise of several new
-Free Software projects that were found useful in addressing a series
+The advent of \DebianMed was stimulated by the rise of several
+Free Software projects that were addressing a series
 of diverse tasks in medical care.
 Several of these projects -- albeit initially appearing most promising \marginpar{which?}
 -- are now dormant. Those failed to follow two basic principles of Free Software: care for a solid user base
-and recruit qualified developers from it.  This becomes increasingly difficult with 
-the degree of specialisation of the software and a field of application that has its
-focus on something else, i.e. the human, than the exchange of information. 
+and recruit qualified developers from it. This is a difficult task that becomes even more difficult with 
+increasing specialisation of software.
+% MH: don't think that is necessary
+%and a field of application that has its
+%focus on something else, i.e. the human, than the exchange of information. 
 
 %a field of aptask is one of the
 %hardest in the field of health care: there is a much smaller number of
@@ -61,17 +63,16 @@
 
 With a smaller number of potential contributors, one needs to help
 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. Modularisation 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.
+a tight relationship with its users. Debian as a Linux distribution already
+help distributing software in a readily usable form. Moreover, modularisation aspects of Debian packaging do not only reduce the complexity of packaging individual software, by allowing to
+depend on other packages, it also eases maintenance of the
+complete system. For example, due to modularization updates and fixes in core libraries, most
+of the time, make end-user software upgrades unnecessary. Performing binary builds
+for more supported hardware platforms than any other operating system and extensive quality
+assurance guarantee robust performance of deployed Debian systems.
+\DebianMed complements the Debian infrastructure with a communication platform
+for all involved parties: original software developers, Debian maintainers and
+Debian users.
 
 %Obtaining reliable information about all these projects is a big problem
 %Some enthusiastic users tried to assemble lists
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@
 %        better: ready to install software.  Perhaps mentioning
 %        MedFloss.org as a better link list with voting (at)
 % 
+% MH: Agreed -- this needs some glue to get to the next paragraph
 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, any Debian user can almost instantly