2015.02.01 SlicerMaintenance LettersOfSupport

Dear Slicer and PLUS community,

Gabor Fichtinger and I (Stephen Aylward) are writing a grant proposal to get NIH funding to support the continued development, maintenance, and distribution of [3D Slicer] and the [PLUS toolkit.]

Joining with Steve Pieper, Sonia Pujol, and many others; this proposal is meant to keep not only the software, but also the outstanding communities, of Slicer and PLUS thriving. The proposal uses the challenge of adding real-time ultrasound RF signal processing into Slicer as its "moon shot." In general, it seeks to spur the development of broader support for GPU-based methods, custom workflows, and third party software integration. Our goal is to make certain that Slicer and PLUS continue to evolve as our community's research needs evolve.

To make our proposal a huge success on first submission, we need your help!

Please consider writing a letter of support for our proposal and sending it to me at stephen.aylward@kitware.com You can send me a PDF document or simply as an email.

We need the letters by February 1, 2015!!

The title of our proposal is

  "Slicer+PLUS: Collaborative, open-source software for ultrasound analysis."

To make your support easy to give, we have drafted five sample letters:

1. [2015.02.01-Draft1-SlicerSupporter.docx]
2. [2015.02.01-Draft2-SlicerSupporter_short.docx]
3. [2015.02.01-Draft3-SlicerAndPLUSSupporter.docx]
4. [2015.02.01-Draft4-LowCostUltrasoundSupporter.docx]
5. [2015.02.01-Draft5-PlusSupporter.docx]

If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me or Gabor.

Best regards, Stephen Aylward Kitware, Inc.