We've had some sporadic reports of users having some difficulty registering on the site, with verification emails not being sent.  If this is you, we've authenticated you manually, so please try and login.  We've also switched mail servers, so hopefully this won't happen again.  However, if you do have problems registering, please e-mail us at webmaster AT clearcanvas DOT ca and let us know.

We'll be at SIIM 2008 in Seattle from May 15-17 for the first ever Open Source Plug-Fest!  This promises to be a fun time, where various open source imaging informatics projects will be gathering together to show off their latest creations.  If you don't have time to see us at the Plug-Fest, but would like to meet up with us at another time during the conference, please e-mail me at norman AT clearcanvas DOT ca.  See you in Seattle!

We're excited to announce the release of ClearCanvas ImageServer 0.90, our open source PACS server!  This is an important milestone because it represents another step in our drive towards an industrial strength, open source RIS/PACS. We've tried to make installation and configuration as straightforward as possible so you can get up and running right away. Be sure to download it, check out the user's manual, and tell us what you think.  We're really interested in hearing from you and any suggestions you may have!

The ClearCanvas developer community will be pleased to know that the inaugural version of the ClearCanvas SDK is now finally available!  We've invested a great deal of time trying to make it as easy to use as possible.  It comes complete with Visual Studio templates & wizards, a comprehensive Developer's Guide and a full API Reference.  And if that isn't quite enough for you, we also have a number of discussion forums to help you with your development related questions.  So try it out and let us know what you think!

We're thrilled to announce that ClearCanvas Workstation 1.0 has been officially released!  After a long beta period, the first official version of our DICOM PACS viewer is ready to go.  Be sure to read more about it, download it, try it out and tell us what you think.

We are very pleased to announce Planar, makers of specialty displays, as one of our new partners! We are delighted that they have successfully developed a plugin for ClearCanvas Workstation to drive their new 10/12 bit grayscale displays. If you're at RSNA this week, be sure to drop by Booth #2312 and see ClearCanvas Workstation on their new displays!

We're happy to announce Empiric Systems as one of our partners! They've done a great job of incorporating ClearCanvas Workstation into their Encompass.NET solution and have made a number of customizations to suit the needs of their users.  If you're going to RSNA, be sure to stop by Booth #5738 and see what they've done!

Once again, we'll be attending RSNA this year as attendees.  If you'd like to meet up with us and see what we've been up to, please let me know (norman AT clearcanvas DOT ca).  We'd be happy to arrange a time to get together.  Hope to hear from you soon!

If you connect to our SVN repository, please note that the URL has changed to https://clearcanvas-svn.cvsdude.com/source/Xian/Trunk/. Use the "Relocate" command in Tortoise SVN to point your working copy to the new URL.  Also, our Trac URL is now: https://clearcanvas-trac.cvsdude.com/source.  Our hosting service tells us that this should result in better performance.  Sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Today was the first day of our first ever ClearCanvas Developers' Conference!  ClearCanvas developers gave talks on topics ranging from how to write application components, to the essentials of the image viewer architecture. We also did some live coding examples.  The highlight, I think was when the 7 participants, who came from various places in Canada and the U.S., did a show & tell, demonstrating some of the cool things they've done with the Framework.

We decided that this inaugural conference would be by invitation only, with people we've met before, just so we can work out the "bugs" before offering it publicly.  If you're interested in attending a future CC DevCon (probably early in '08), just send me an e-mail: norman AT clearcanvas DOT ca.