Dear all, I write you as the author of Orthanc [1,2], a software for medical imaging. Firstly, I would like to give a quick insight about the goal of the Orthanc project. The volume of medical images that are generated, analyzed and exchanged by hospitals is dramatically increasing. Multimodal medical imaging is indeed the first step to the treatment of more and more illnesses, such as cancers or cardiovascular diseases. In turn, the data management of clinical images and the administration of the computer network of a medical imaging department imply continuously growing technological challenges. Tasks such as autorouting between imaging modalities, exchanging data between clinical departments or hospitals, or anonymizing images are still hard to achieve in practice, as hospitals are strongly dependent on their providers (lock-in). The DICOM standard is a file format and a network protocol that rules all of these medical workflows. Obviously, it is important from the point of view of the respect of the freedoms of hospitals and patients, to have free/libre software that contributes to a better, independent handling of such flows and that hereby contributes to solve the problems described above. This led us to the development of Orthanc, a lightweight, versatile vendor neutral archive (aka. mini-PACS, or DICOM server). Orthanc is conceived as a central, robust building block to bring technological independence to clinical departments, by automating their very specific imaging flows and by creating gateways between proprietary ecosystems. Besides its good support of DICOM (both the file format and the network protocol), Orthanc also comes with a REST API, a Lua scripting engine and a plugin SDK: These three mechanisms allow system administrators and developers to extend the core of Orthanc to fit their own needs. Orthanc is already available for Debian, Fedora and Docker, but I feel it would be useful to bring it to openSUSE users. The "medical" devel project would probably be the best place to put it [3]. As a consequence, by the present message, I would like to warn the openSUSE community that I am planning to package Orthanc. I have no fixed deadline, so the packaging process might take some time. I will send a "submit-request" to the Factory once it is ready. Of course, feel free to contact me if you have remarks to make about this packaging, or if you are a maintainer of the "medical" project. Regards, Sébastien- [1] http://www.orthanc-server.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthanc_(software) [3] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/medical -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org