Hi folks, As United States government is re-examines the value of its funding initiatives, we have an opportunity to explain the value of the Insight Toolkit (ITK) project, and its associated open science community.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has driven open science and reproducible research long before the recent surge in popularity of the movement. Not only did the NLM start the Insight Toolkit project in 1999, but it has continuously enabled it to thrive by supporting community development, maintenance, and algorithmic and technological advances to this day. Open science needs active communities, supported communities, standards, open-source tools, strong ties will commercial / clinical efforts, high-quality practices, transparency, and more - and those are exactly the strengths of our community's toolkits, applications, and projects. We should to encourage the NLM (NIH, DHHS, US Government) to continue to prioritize these efforts via their funding. To emphasize the impact of this community, please share your story. We would like to describe outstanding projects and efforts that use the Insight Toolkit. If you have stories, descriptions, or statistics of the impact of ITK or projects that leverage it, they justify future investments in this area. If you can help, please send a description of your project or your relationship with the Insight Toolkit for research, industry, or education to <matt.mccorm...@kitware.com> by Tuesday, April 11th. For example, Dear US National Library of Medicine, Thanks you for funding the Insight Toolkit project and supporting its maintenance and community. For the past two years, the documentation, software, and community have been a valuable resource for my research on neurocognitive imaging. Sincerely, Alice Insight, PhD Reproducible University Thank you, Matt _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Kitware offers ITK Training Courses, for more information visit: http://kitware.com/products/protraining.php Please keep messages on-topic and check the ITK FAQ at: http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/insight-developers
