Be part of a growing community of developers, researchers, and clinicians building the future of open-source healthcare
Most of our community will never receive a physical Openwater device, and that's fine. The platform is open-source — the highest-leverage work happens in code, documentation, quality, research methodology, and clinical workflow design. Five lanes. Two good-first-issues each. A named human on every lane. Pick one and ship.
Ship Python, Slicer, and tooling improvements against simulators and fixtures. The MATLAB-to-Python migration is the highest-leverage place to start.
Make the platform legible to the next contributor. Tutorials, glossaries, API docs, translations. Your work is the first thing a new arrival reads.
Triage, reproduce, audit. The work that keeps the platform trustworthy as the community grows.
Build the shared knowledge base future trials will rely on. Literature synthesis, schemas, methodology.
Shape the workflow future recipients of devices will follow. IRB templates, plain-language summaries, safety reporting.
Get onboarded to the community: repos, Discord, the safety-data pool, and the protocol library.
The core stays AGPL to protect the open commons; extensions move to Apache 2.0 so anyone can build on them. See what applies where and why.
Key areas where the community is focused
Open-source platform for therapeutic ultrasound research and development
Open-source optical imaging platform for clinical-research applications
Building guides, tutorials, and API references to lower the barrier for new contributors
Developing contributor pathways and partnership frameworks for institutions and researchers
Our vision for the Openwater open-source ecosystem
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