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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear Project<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Week<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>community,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">We are happy to announce the beginning of preparation meetings for the next project week (June 12-16, 2023). Weekly meetings will start this Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(10 am Boston time, EDT)
 on Zoom. You can join using the following link which will remain the same for all preparation meetings:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://etsmtl.zoom.us/j/86211702920?pwd=TEl0ZTFDam90WVN5bjZhR05kNVRVZz09" title="https://etsmtl.zoom.us/j/86211702920?pwd=TEl0ZTFDam90WVN5bjZhR05kNVRVZz09">https://etsmtl.zoom.us/j/86211702920?pwd=TEl0ZTFDam90WVN5bjZhR05kNVRVZz09</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Looking forward to see you all!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Cheers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">The PW organizing committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">(Tina Kapur, Simon Drouin, Rafael Palomar, Sam Horvath, Theodore Aptekarev)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">---------------------------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Project<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Week#39 will be held June 12-16, 2023,<span class="apple-converted-space"> at École de Technologie Supérieur (ETS) in Montreal, Canada. The meeting will have a hybrid format to make
 it possible to participate remotely</span>. Please look here for additional details:<span class="apple-converted-space"> <a href="https://projectweek.na-mic.org/PW39_2023_Montreal/">https://projectweek.na-mic.org/PW39_2023_Montreal/</a>  </span></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">Preparation</span></i><span style="color:black">: To prepare, we will be holding<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>weekly meetings at 10am on Tuesdays, starting<span class="apple-converted-space">
<b>May</b></span><b> 2nd, 2023</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and ending on June 6th.  Please join at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://etsmtl.zoom.us/j/86211702920?pwd=TEl0ZTFDam90WVN5bjZhR05kNVRVZz09" title="https://etsmtl.zoom.us/j/86211702920?pwd=TEl0ZTFDam90WVN5bjZhR05kNVRVZz09">this
 link</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>if you have a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>project<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that you would like to present or work on during<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>project<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>week.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="color:black">Background</span></i><span style="color:black">: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Project<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Week<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>week-long
 hackathon of hands on activity in which medical image computing researchers create solutions using the open source image computing platform, 3D Slicer, and VTK, ITK, CMake, and CDash libraries as well as OHIF, Cornerstone, dcmjs, vtkjs, itkjs, DICOMweb, Girder
 and related web technologies. Participants work collaboratively on solutions that lie at the interfaces of the fields of computer science, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and medicine. In contrast to conferences and workshops where the primary
 focus is to report results, the objective of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ProjectWeek<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is to provide a venue for creators of medical image computing open-source software creators to collaboratively
 work.</span></p>
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