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6 If you find Orthanc useful and wish to contribute to its development, | |
7 here are some tasks you can take in charge that would greatly help us: | |
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11 - Use Orthanc in the real life. ;) |
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17 - Improve and translate the `Wikipedia pages |
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18 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthanc_(software)>`_ about Orthanc. |
174 | 19 - Cite the `reference paper about Orthanc |
20 <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y>`__ | |
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23 <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/orthanc-users>`_. |
152 | 24 - Improve the text of the `Orthanc Book |
25 <https://bitbucket.org/sjodogne/orthanc-book/>`_ (check out the "How to contribute" | |
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27 - Provide documentation and use cases (inside the dedicated `GitHub |
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28 repository <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed>`_, via |
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29 pull requests). |
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30 - Index external contributions inside the `Links.md |
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31 <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed/blob/master/Links.md>`_ |
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32 file. |
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36 - Report problems together with sample DICOM images and possible |
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38 <https://bitbucket.org/sjodogne/orthanc/issues?status=new&status=open>`_. |
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39 - Package Orthanc and its associated plugins for more UNIX or |
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40 GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE...). |
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41 - Share your maintenance scripts or sample code inside the "`Orthanc Contributed |
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42 <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed>`_" public GitHub |
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44 - The Orthanc project will also happily accept **external patches** |
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47 <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/orthanc-users>`_ or via a |
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48 `pull request <https://bitbucket.org/sjodogne/orthanc/pull-requests/>`_. |
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53 Matlab/Octave, Python, Horos, dicompyler...). Check the `already |
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54 supported frameworks <http://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=resources>`_. |
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55 - Develop :ref:`C/C++ plugins extending the Orthanc core <plugins>`. Here are some ideas |
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68 source code of Orthanc is by creating C/C++ plugins**. If the |
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