[med-svn] r5599 - in trunk/community/papers: . 11_med-floss_luxemburg

Andreas Tille tille at alioth.debian.org
Fri Dec 10 21:41:34 UTC 2010 

Author: tille
Date: 2010-12-10 21:41:33 +0000 (Fri, 10 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5599

Added:
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/abstract.txt
Removed:
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/abstract
Modified:
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
   trunk/community/papers/debian-med.bib
Log:
Final polishing


Deleted: trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/abstract
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--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/abstract	2010-12-10 21:16:27 UTC (rev 5598)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/abstract	2010-12-10 21:41:33 UTC (rev 5599)
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-The Debian Med 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 Debian Med project
-has a positive effect for the cooperating upstream projects. The fields
-molecular biology and medical imaging were covered quite good with
-Free Software solutions solutions and there are even Free Software
-projects to manage a medical practice. The Debian Med project tries to
-be the missing link between developers and users to support Free
-Software solutions for all areas in medicine. Debian Med is intended
-to be useful for service providers who want to distribute their free
-or proprietary solutions in medical care. The whole project is embeded
-into the Debian Pure Blends framework as well as Debian Edu, Debian
-Science and others.

Added: trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/abstract.txt
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--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/abstract.txt	                        (rev 0)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/abstract.txt	2010-12-10 21:41:33 UTC (rev 5599)
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+The Debian Med project started in 2002 with the objective to bring 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 to the biomedical domain.  At that 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 provided a solid foundation for bringing those products together.  To assure complete coverage and harmonic integration, the Debian Med project was initiated to provide a software management infrastructure to improve communication among Debian package maintainers, e.g. to identify missing glue packages to translate data formats or to point out conflicts in the naming of binaries.
+
+Over the past decade, the integrative Debian Med project has proven to have positive effects beyond the scope of Debian users.  Many ties have been established between original software developers and Debian package maintainers.  Large development teams started to upload their Debian packages directly. That communicated the experience of the developers back into the distribution and made medical software a constituent member of the Debian distribution.
+
+The ideas behind the Debian Med generalised into the concept of Debian Pure Blends.  Blends, such as Debian Edu, Debian Science, DebiChem (chemistry), Debian GIS, DeMuDi etc., were created to provide a targeted appearance of the Debian distribution for different domains of applications.  Today, Blend task pages complement canonical Debian package listings with additional information (e.g. scientific references) and also cover software products that are relevant for a given domain, but not yet integrated into Debian.  A growing community with continuously improving maintenance procedures eases direct contributions to Debian, thus preventing unnecessary fractioning of the open-source community, and allow for supporting customised versions of Debian, such as Debian Med, within the Debian ecosystem.
+

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 21:16:27 UTC (rev 5598)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-10 21:41:33 UTC (rev 5599)
@@ -878,11 +878,18 @@
 be helped with the packaging process and offered guidance towards
 self-uploading future versions.
 
+%% FIXME
 %% I have difficulties with the remaining items. The style is
-%% IMHO not approrpiate for a paper and certainly should not be
+%% IMHO not appropriate for a paper and certainly should not be
 %% part of the discussion.
 %% Not everything should be in Debian but only what can be
 %% maintained.
+%% at: I'll leave it out only for the 'wrong style' remark.
+%%     It is not said that everything should be included - just check
+%%     whether something important is missing ... and ask people to
+%%     help including it (in turn we should add an item with
+%%     suggestions for removals.
+%%     I agree that the wording is not appropriate
 %\item Check what projects are missing and ask Debian maintainers for
 %  official inclusion.  There is a sponsoring program by which even non
 %  Debian developers can provide packages which are checked and
@@ -908,24 +915,24 @@
 
 \subsection{Developments}
 
-Some scientific funding agencies put considerable pressure on
-research grant applicants to explain how to possibly bring their
-developments to practical applications, \emph{i.e.} to distribute 
-the software. Debian and its derivative distributions are a
-very suitable medium for this purpose.
+Some scientific funding agencies put considerable pressure on research
+grant applicants to explain how to possibly bring their developments
+to practical applications, \emph{i.e.} to distribute the
+software. Debian and its derivative distributions are a very suitable
+medium for this purpose.
 
-\DebianMed hopes to help the communication between developers
-for the sharing of data management, \emph{i.e.} the input for their
-tools that should be consistent for all tools contributing
-to a scientific workflow. While some ideas like \emph{e.g.} getData \marginpar{wiki.debian.org/getData},
-have been developed, this still needs to be amended to suit
-the community better.
+\DebianMed hopes to help the communication between developers for the
+sharing of data management, \emph{i.e.} the input for their tools that
+should be consistent for all tools contributing to a scientific
+workflow. While some ideas like \emph{e.g.} getData
+\cite{getdata:2010}, have been developed, this still needs to be
+amended to suit the community better.
 
-Another aspect is education. Debian or Ubuntu are used in 
-many student computer labs around the globe with many having
-packages from \DebianMed installed. We should hope for the
-development of courses that involve Debian packages and those
-course materials to be shared similarly to the tools themselves.
+Another aspect is education. Debian or Ubuntu are used in many student
+computer labs around the globe with many having packages from
+\DebianMed installed. We should hope for the development of courses
+that involve Debian packages and those course materials to be shared
+similarly to the tools themselves.
 
 \section{Conclusions}
 
@@ -947,7 +954,9 @@
 packages that already serve their needs or may be adapted
 respectively.
 
-% Debian is not important, the Free Software is
+%% Debian is not important, the Free Software is
+%% at: ... and the idea how to distribute niche products of Free
+%%     Software is important as well (leave this for FIXME)
 %For Debian GNU/Linux to become the race-horse for Free Software in
 %health care.
 
@@ -972,6 +981,6 @@
 \section{Acknowledgements}
 
 Many thanks go to all contributors to Debian and \DebianMed,
-\emph{i.e.}, the providers of the packages, the developers of the Free Software
-and to all those who donate the resources for the project.
+\emph{i.e.}, the providers of the packages, the developers of the Free
+Software and to all those who donate the resources for the project.
 

Modified: trunk/community/papers/debian-med.bib
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--- trunk/community/papers/debian-med.bib	2010-12-10 21:16:27 UTC (rev 5598)
+++ trunk/community/papers/debian-med.bib	2010-12-10 21:41:33 UTC (rev 5599)
@@ -312,3 +312,11 @@
 	ADDRESS="San Diego, CA, USA",
 	URL="http://neuro.debian.net/_files/NeuroDebian_SfN2010.png",
 }
+
+ at ARTICLE{getdata:2010,
+	AUTHOR="{Charles Plessy, Steffen M\"oller}",
+	TITLE={{getData}},
+	YEAR="2010",
+	URL="http://wiki.debian.org/getData"
+}
+

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