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3 Contributing to Orthanc
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4 =======================
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6 If you find Orthanc useful and wish to contribute to its development,
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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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14 `Twitter <https://twitter.com/OrthancServer>`__).
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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.
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19 - Cite the `reference paper about Orthanc
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21 in your research work.
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22 - Answer questions posted to the `mailing list
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23 <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/orthanc-users>`_.
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25 <https://hg.orthanc-server.com/orthanc-book/file/default>`__ (check
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28 and send us a :ref:`simple patch <hg-patch>`).
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34 repository <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed>`_, via
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37 <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed/blob/master/Links.md>`_
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40 * **Maintenance tasks**:
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51 <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed>`_" public GitHub
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54 and open-source projects, notably `GNU Health
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