Welcome to the first issue of the Kitware Software Developer’s Quarterly newsletter. This publication was created to deliver basic information on recent releases and upcoming changes, as well as detailed technical articles related to Kitware’s open source products. This includes:
• The Visualization Toolkit (www.vtk.org)
• ParaView (www.paraview.org)
• The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (www.itk.org)
• CMake (www.cmake.org)
• KWWidgets (www.kwwidgets.org)

Welcome............................................................................. 1
Recent Releases ................................................................. 1
Using Ghost Cells in Parallel Filters ....................................... 3
VTK 5.0 Pipeline Architecture................................................ 4
An Introduction to KWWidgets .............................................. 7
CTest ................................................................................. 9
In Progress ........................................................................ 10
Kitware News ..................................................................... 12