1. B. Collette 8 February 2008 DVTK - Future Barbara Collette DVTK Project Leader Eye2Eye Meeting, 8 February 2008

2. 2B.Collettewww.dvtk.org Overview Roadmap for 2008 DVTk community Community website Development community User experiences Looking back on today

3. 3B.Collettewww.dvtk.org Roadmap for 2008 (1) Current ideas: Improve appreciated tools: Sniffer Script editor Use the proposed UI framework: Harmonization aspect of UI Thinner applications (validation services) based on defined interfaces More focus on IHE and external validation services (HL7, XDS, etc.) Component Based Architecture Improve documentation and examples Enhance Results management

4. 4B.Collettewww.dvtk.org Roadmap for 2008 (2) More ideas: Migrate all tools to.NET 2.0 Support of TCP/IP V6 Microsoft Workflow Foundation (student assignment) Displaying special characters Work packages, summary: –stand-alone DVT based tools (4) –Validation framework assignments (9) –Software interfaces (2) –Migration to new development environment (1) More details can be found on our website Any ideas from you ? How can you contribute ?

5. 5B.Collettewww.dvtk.org DVTk Community (1) How did we involve more people and other companies ? –Make use of State of the Art information of existing Community aspects to explore future growth. –Look into the motivations of individuals and companies to participate. Get people involved, step-by-step:

6. 6B.Collettewww.dvtk.org DVTk community (2) Ideal ratio of users/ bug reporters/ patch submitters is close to 1000/ 10/ 1 Starting point: Goal: Core developers DevelopersContributing users Responsive users Users 6125322000 Core developers DevelopersContributing users Responsive users Users 7143010040000

7. 7B.Collettewww.dvtk.org DVTk community (3) Projects that provide generic libraries and multi- purpose components tend to be more successful. Software interfaces are used by developers, such type of users can make the step from contributing user towards developer.Projects that provide generic libraries and multi- purpose components tend to be more successful. Software interfaces are used by developers, such type of users can make the step from contributing user towards developer. We choose to focus our communication strategy on our open source library.We choose to focus our communication strategy on our open source library.

8. 8B.Collettewww.dvtk.org Community website (1) New website should serve the community better: –Include different domains (DICOM, HL7, IHE) –Be attractive for developers (easy access to source code) –Share example code –Share small scripts Website preview: http://eye2eye.eerstproberen.com /

9. 9B.Collettewww.dvtk.org Community website (2)

10. 10B.Collettewww.dvtk.org Development community

11. 11B.Collettewww.dvtk.org User experiences (1) Before the DVTk project went to open source the number of downloads a month was approximately 150. These downloads were all from the Philips and AFGA websites. Since the project became open source, the number of downloads of the DVTk project’s has increased enormously:

12. 12B.Collettewww.dvtk.org User experiences (2) An overview of references to the DVTk project:

13. 13B.Collettewww.dvtk.org Looking back on today Feedback of participants Short evaluation of the committee

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