:page_facing_up: Open-Source Software for Surgical Technologies: Challenges and opportunities

Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics [:link:](https://www.hamlynsymposium.org/events/open-source-software-for-surgical-technologies)

Aim of the white paper

The aim of the white paper, in a short-term goal, is to encourage people in the workshop to collaboratively contribute and edit the project to create a comprehensive and valuable resource that benefits the entire community.
Looking ahead, the long-term goal is to identify an appropriate venue where the white paper can be refined and prepared for submission. By taking this approach, If you have any thoughts, suggestions, or questions regarding this process, please do not hesitate to share them. Code, data and other resources to reproduce this work are available at https://github.com/oss-for-surgtech/white-paper.

How to contribute

Please have a look to the current work in progress of the overleaf project.
If you are still intersted to contribute to to the paper, please send me an email to m.xochicale@ucl.ac.uk or raise an issue.

Important dates

26 June 2023: Sharing overleaf latex document and repo
24 October 2023: Sharng first draft for contributions
30 November 2023: First round of revisions and contributions
30 December 2023: Second round of revisions and submission of preprint to arxiv
15 January 2024: Disscussing and submission to an appropriate venue for publication

Clone repository

Generate your SSH keys as suggested here (or here)

Clone the repository by typing (or copying) the following line in a terminal at your selected path in your machine:

cd && mkdir -p $HOME/repositories/oss-for-surgtech && cd  $HOME/repositories/oss-for-surgtech
git clone git@github.com:oss-for-surgtech/white-paper.git

Contributors

Thanks goes to all these people (emoji key):

_{ADD NAME SURNAME}
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_{Stephen Thompson}
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_{Miguel Xochicale}
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This work follows the all-contributors specification.
Contributions of any kind welcome!