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   2 Scientific software usage in neuroscience research
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   4
   5 This survey should take about five minutes. Immediately after submission you
   6 will be presented with some statistics on previous responses. Please try to
   7 answer as many questions as you can, but don't worry if you cannot answer all
   8 of them. For feedback email team@neuro.debian.net
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  57
  58 Personal background
  59 -------------------
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  62
  63    <table>
  64    <tr class="oddrow">
  65    <td>
  66
  67 Which country are you working in?
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  71    </td><td class="response">
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  74    :file: select_country.inc
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  78    </td></tr><tr><td>
  79
  80 Where are you working?
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  84    </td><td class="response">
  85    <select name="bg_employer" size="1">
  86    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
  87    <option value="edu_priv" label="Higher education (privately funded)">Higher education (privately funded)</option>
  88    <option value="edu_pub" label="Higher education (publicly funded)">Higher education (publicly funded)</option>
  89    <option value="research_priv" label="Research institution (privately funded)">Research institution (privately funded)</option>
  90    <option value="research_pub" label="Research institution (publicly funded)">Research institution (publicly funded)</option>
  91    <option value="company" label="Company">Company</option>
  92    </select>
  93    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
  94
  95 What is your position?
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  99    </td><td class="response">
 100    <select name="bg_position" size="1">
 101    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 102    <option value="undergrad" label="Undergraduate student">Undergraduate student</option>
 103    <option value="graduate" label="PhD student">PhD student</option>
 104    <option value="postdoc" label="Postdoc">Postdoc</option>
 105    <option value="professor" label="Professor/Supervisor">Professor/Supervisor</option>
 106    <option value="ra" label="Research assistant">Research assistant</option>
 107    <option value="researcher" label="Other researcher">Other researcher</option>
 108    <option value="sysadmin" label="System administrator">System administrator</option>
 109    </select>
 110    </td></tr><tr><td>
 111
 112 What type of data are you working with? Please check all items that apply.
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 115
 116    </td><td class="response">
 117    <table><tr><td>
 118    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="behav" />Behavioral<br />
 119    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="mri" />MRI/fMRI/DTI<br />
 120    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="meeg" />EEG/MEG<br />
 121    </td><td>
 122    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="pet" />PET/SPECT<br />
 123    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="ephys" />Electrophysiology<br />
 124    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="spectro" />Microspectroscopy<br />
 125    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="other" />
 126    <input name="bg_datamod_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 127    </td></tr></table>
 128    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 129
 130 Are you developing software that is intended to be used by other researchers?
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 133
 134    </td><td class="response">
 135    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="yes" />Yes</span>
 136    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="no" checked="checked" />No</span>
 137    </td>
 138    </tr>
 139    </table>
 140
 141 Personal scientific software environment
 142 ----------------------------------------
 143
 144 Here are a few questions about your personal scientific software environment
 145 for research activities like data acquisition, computational modeling, and data
 146 analysis. You might be running this on your laptop, desktop, personal
 147 workstation or any other machine where **you decide** what software you are
 148 using, and you typically also have permission to **install it yourself**.  If
 149 you are operating different environments, please describe the one that you find
 150 most productive for your research purposes. If you don't have a machine that
 151 you administer yourself, instead, please indicate what kind of scientific
 152 software environment you would like to be doing your research in.
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 155
 156    <table>
 157    <tr class="oddrow">
 158    <td>
 159
 160 What fraction of your research activity time do you spend in this software
 161 environment as opposed to any other environment that you migh have access to?
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 164
 165    </td><td class="response">
 166    <select name="pers_time" size="1">
 167    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 168    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't have this environment">None/I don't have this environment</option>
 169    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 170    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 171    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 172    </select>
 173    </td></tr><tr><td>
 174
 175 What type of hardware are you using?
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 178
 179    </td><td class="response">
 180    <select name="pers_hardware" size="1">
 181    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 182    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 183    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 184    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 185    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 186    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 187    </select>
 188    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 189
 190 What operating system is this environment running on?
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 193
 194    </td><td class="response">
 195    <select name="pers_os" size="1">
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 198    :file: select_os_options.inc
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 201
 202    </select>
 203    </td></tr><tr><td>
 204
 205 How much time do you spend each month on maintaining this environment?  This
 206 includes the time spent on operating system (security) upgrades, as well as
 207 installing and updating scientific software.
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 209 .. raw:: html
 210
 211    </td><td class="response">
 212    <input name="pers_maint_time" type="text" size="3" maxlength="3"> hours per month
 213    </td>
 214    </tr>
 215    </table>
 216
 217 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 218
 219 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements.
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 222
 223    <table>
 224    <tr><th colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal">
 225
 226 *I prefer this particular scientific software environment because ...*
 227
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 229
 230    </th></tr><tr class="oddrow">
 231    <td class="task">
 232
 233 ... the developers of an important research software recommend it
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 236
 237    </td><td class="response">
 238    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="3" /></div>
 239    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="2" /></div>
 240    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="1" /></div>
 241    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="0" /></div>
 242    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 243
 244
 245 ... of the variety of available research software for this environment
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 248
 249    </td><td class="response">
 250    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="3" /></div>
 251    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="2" /></div>
 252    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="1" /></div>
 253    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="0" /></div>
 254    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 255
 256
 257 ... of the availibility of commercial support
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 260
 261    </td><td class="response">
 262    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="3" /></div>
 263    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="2" /></div>
 264    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="1" /></div>
 265    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="0" /></div>
 266    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 267
 268
 269 ... many of my colleagues use something similar
 270
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 272
 273    </td><td class="response">
 274    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="3" /></div>
 275    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="2" /></div>
 276    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="1" /></div>
 277    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="0" /></div>
 278    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 279
 280
 281 ... it is popular and I can get solutions for problems from web forums and mailing lists
 282
 283 .. raw:: html
 284
 285    </td><td class="response">
 286    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="3" /></div>
 287    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="2" /></div>
 288    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="1" /></div>
 289    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="0" /></div>
 290    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 291
 292
 293 ... I rely on a particular application that only runs in this environment
 294
 295 .. raw:: html
 296
 297    </td><td class="response">
 298    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="3" /></div>
 299    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="2" /></div>
 300    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="1" /></div>
 301    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="0" /></div>
 302    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 303
 304
 305 ... it has adequate support for all required hardware
 306
 307 .. raw:: html
 308
 309    </td><td class="response">
 310    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="3" /></div>
 311    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="2" /></div>
 312    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="1" /></div>
 313    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="0" /></div>
 314    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 315
 316
 317 ... I have the necessary technical skills to maintain this environment myself
 318
 319 .. raw:: html
 320
 321    </td><td class="response">
 322    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="3" /></div>
 323    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="2" /></div>
 324    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="1" /></div>
 325    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="0" /></div>
 326    </td>
 327    </tr>
 328    </table>
 329
 330
 331 Managed scientific software environment
 332 ---------------------------------------
 333
 334 The following questions are about a managed environment of scientific software
 335 that is provided to you to carry out computing and data analysis. Such an
 336 environment is typically managed by **dedicated IT staff**, and **you don't
 337 have permissions to install arbitrary software**. This environment may be
 338 shared by many researchers in a lab, a whole research institution, or even be
 339 publicly accessible. If you have access to multiple environments of this kind,
 340 please describe the one that offers most support for your particular research
 341 purposes.
 342
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 346    <table class="questionaire">
 347    <tr class="oddrow">
 348    <td>
 349
 350 What fraction of time do you spend in this environment during your research
 351 activities?
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 354
 355    </td><td class="response">
 356    <select name="man_time" size="1">
 357    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 358    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't use this">None/I don't use this</option>
 359    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 360    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 361    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 362    </select>
 363    </td></tr><tr><td>
 364
 365 What type of hardware is this software environment running on?
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 367 .. raw:: html
 368
 369    </td><td class="response">
 370    <select name="man_hardware" size="1">
 371    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 372    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 373    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 374    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 375    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 376    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 377    </select>
 378    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 379
 380
 381 What operating system is this environment running on?
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 383 .. raw:: html
 384
 385    </td><td class="response">
 386    <select name="man_os" size="1">
 387
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 389    :file: select_os_options.inc
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 391 .. raw:: html
 392
 393    </select>
 394    </td>
 395    </tr>
 396    </table>
 397
 398 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 399
 400 How much do you agree to the following statements?
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 403
 404    <table>
 405    <tr class="oddrow">
 406    <td class="task">
 407
 408 This environment provides me with the best available tools for my research
 409
 410 .. raw:: html
 411
 412    </td><td class="response">
 413    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="3" /></div>
 414    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="2" /></div>
 415    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="1" /></div>
 416    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="0" /></div>
 417    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 418
 419 The support staff solves all my technical problems and addresses my demands in
 420 a timely fashion
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 422 .. raw:: html
 423
 424    </td><td class="response">
 425    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="3" /></div>
 426    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="2" /></div>
 427    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="1" /></div>
 428    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="0" /></div>
 429    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 430
 431 There are always enough licenses for essential commerical software tools
 432
 433 .. raw:: html
 434
 435    </td><td class="response">
 436    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="3" /></div>
 437    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="2" /></div>
 438    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="1" /></div>
 439    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="0" /></div>
 440    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 441
 442 I need to deploy additional software to be able to perform my research in this environment
 443
 444 .. raw:: html
 445
 446    </td><td class="response">
 447    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="3" /></div>
 448    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="2" /></div>
 449    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="1" /></div>
 450    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="0" /></div>
 451    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 452
 453
 454 Using this managed environment is more cost effective than operating a suitable
 455 environment myself
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 457 .. raw:: html
 458
 459    </td><td class="response">
 460    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="3" /></div>
 461    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="2" /></div>
 462    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="1" /></div>
 463    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="0" /></div>
 464    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 465
 466 .. raw:: html
 467
 468    </td>
 469    </tr>
 470    </table>
 471
 472 Virtualization
 473 --------------
 474
 475 The following questions are about your usage of systems for hardware
 476 virtualization in your research -- so-called **virtual machines**.
 477 Virtualization is a technology that allows running more than one operating
 478 systems on one machine at the same time.
 479
 480 .. raw:: html
 481
 482    <table>
 483    <tr class="oddrow">
 484    <td class="task">
 485
 486 How often do you use virtual machines for your research purposes?
 487
 488 .. raw:: html
 489
 490    </td><td class="response">
 491    <select name="virt_time" size="1">
 492    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 493    <option value="never" label="Never">Never</option>
 494    <option value="occasionally" label="Occasionally">Occasionally</option>
 495    <option value="often" label="Often">Often</option>
 496    <option value="always" label="Exclusively">Exclusively</option>
 497    </select><div style="font-size:60%">(skip the remaining questions of this section if "never")</div>
 498    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 499
 500 Which products for virtualization are you using?
 501
 502 .. raw:: html
 503
 504    </td><td class="response">
 505    <table><tr><td>
 506    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="vmware" />VMWare<br />
 507    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualbox" />VirtualBox<br />
 508    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="parallels" />Parallels<br />
 509    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="qemu" />QEMU<br />
 510    </td><td>
 511    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualpc" />Virtual PC<br />
 512    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="xen" />Xen<br />
 513    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="kvm" />KVM<br />
 514    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="other" />
 515    <input name="virt_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 516    </td></tr></table>
 517    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 518
 519 What **guest operating system** is running inside virtual machine?
 520
 521 .. raw:: html
 522
 523    </td><td class="response">
 524    <select name="virt_guest_os" size="1">
 525
 526 .. raw:: html
 527    :file: select_os_options.inc
 528
 529 .. raw:: html
 530
 531    </select>
 532    </td></tr><tr><td>
 533
 534 What **host operating system** are the virtual machines running on?
 535
 536 .. raw:: html
 537
 538    </td><td class="response">
 539    <select name="virt_host_os" size="1">
 540
 541 .. raw:: html
 542    :file: select_os_options.inc
 543
 544 .. raw:: html
 545
 546    </select>
 547    </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">
 548
 549 What are your reasons for employing virtualization in you research?
 550 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements
 551
 552 .. raw:: html
 553
 554    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 555
 556 I can run software that is otherwise incompatible with my system
 557
 558 .. raw:: html
 559
 560    </td><td class="response">
 561    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="3" /></div>
 562    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="2" /></div>
 563    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="1" /></div>
 564    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="0" /></div>
 565    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 566
 567 I have the ability to easily create a snapshot of my whole analysis environment
 568
 569 .. raw:: html
 570
 571    </td><td class="response">
 572    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="3" /></div>
 573    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="2" /></div>
 574    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="1" /></div>
 575    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="0" /></div>
 576    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 577
 578
 579 I can take my complete analysis environment with me and run it on different
 580 machines
 581
 582 .. raw:: html
 583
 584    </td><td class="response">
 585    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="3" /></div>
 586    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="2" /></div>
 587    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="1" /></div>
 588    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="0" /></div>
 589    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 590
 591 The performance of a virtual machine is sufficient for routine application in my
 592 research
 593
 594 .. raw:: html
 595
 596    </td><td class="response">
 597    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="3" /></div>
 598    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="2" /></div>
 599    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="1" /></div>
 600    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="0" /></div>
 601    </td>
 602    </tr>
 603    </table>
 604
 605
 606 Resources for scientific software
 607 ---------------------------------
 608
 609 Where do you obtain scientific software that you employ in your research? Please
 610 check all items that apply
 611
 612 .. raw:: html
 613
 614    <table class="questionaire">
 615    <tr class="oddrow">
 616    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="vendor" /></td><td>
 617
 618 Directly from vendor or project website
 619
 620 .. raw:: html
 621
 622    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="retailer" /></td><td>
 623
 624 Retailer
 625
 626 .. raw:: html
 627
 628    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="os" /></td><td>
 629
 630 Comes with the operating system
 631
 632 .. raw:: html
 633
 634    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cpan" /></td><td>
 635
 636 `Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) <http://www.cpan.org>`_
 637
 638 .. raw:: html
 639
 640    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cran" /></td><td>
 641
 642 `Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) <http://cran.r-project.org>`_
 643
 644 .. raw:: html
 645
 646    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="epel" /></td><td>
 647
 648 `Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_
 649
 650 .. raw:: html
 651
 652    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="fink" /></td><td>
 653
 654 `Fink <http://www.finkproject.org>`_
 655
 656 .. raw:: html
 657
 658    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="freebsdports" /></td><td>
 659
 660 `FreeBSD ports <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/science.html>`_
 661
 662 .. raw:: html
 663
 664    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="incf" /></td><td>
 665
 666 `International neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) Research Tools <http://www.incf.org/resources/research-tools>`_
 667
 668 .. raw:: html
 669
 670    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value=macports"" /></td><td>
 671
 672 `Macports <http://www.macports.org>`_
 673
 674 .. raw:: html
 675
 676    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="matlabcentral" /></td><td>
 677
 678 `Matlab Central <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral>`_
 679
 680 .. raw:: html
 681
 682    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="neurodebian" /></td><td>
 683
 684 `NeuroDebian <http://neuro.debian.net>`_
 685
 686 .. raw:: html
 687
 688    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="nitrc" /></td><td>
 689
 690 `Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) <http://www.nitrc.org>`_
 691
 692 .. raw:: html
 693
 694    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pypi" /></td><td>
 695
 696 `Python Package Index (PyPi) <http://pypi.python.org>`_
 697
 698 .. raw:: html
 699
 700    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pythonbundles" /></td><td>
 701
 702 Python bundles: `Enthought Python <http://www.enthought.com/products/index.php>`_, `Python(x,y) <http://www.pythonxy.com/>`_
 703
 704 .. raw:: html
 705
 706    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="sourceforge" /></td><td>
 707
 708 `Sourceforge <http://www.sourceforge.net>`_
 709
 710 .. raw:: html
 711
 712    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="other" /></td><td>
 713    <input name="software_resource_other" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200">
 714    </td></tr></table>
 715
 716 Software selection
 717 ------------------
 718
 719 Please select all software that you are using in your research.
 720
 721 Generic computing/scripting/programming environments
 722 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 723
 724 .. raw:: html
 725
 726    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 727    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="cpp" />C/C++</td>
 728    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="idl" />IDL</td>
 729    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="labview" />LabVIEW</td>
 730    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="lisrel" />LISREL</td>
 731    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="maple" />Maple</td>
 732    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathcad" />Mathcad</td>
 733    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 734    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathematica" />Mathematica</td>
 735    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="matlab" />Matlab</td>
 736    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="octave" />Octave</td>
 737    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="perl" />Perl</td>
 738    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="python" />Python</td>
 739    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="r" />R</td>
 740    </tr><tr>
 741    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="ruby" />Ruby</td>
 742    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scilab" />Scilab</td>
 743    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="spss" />SPSS</td>
 744    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scirun" />SCIRun</td>
 745    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="shell" />Shell scripting</td>
 746    </tr></table>
 747
 748 Distributed computing - frameworks and controllers
 749 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 750
 751 .. raw:: html
 752
 753    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 754    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="sge" />SGE</td>
 755    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="torque" />Torque/OpenPBS/Maui</td>
 756    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="condor" />Condor</td>
 757    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="globus" />Globus</td>
 758    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="mpi" />MPI (any)</td>
 759    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="ipython" />IPython</td>
 760    </tr></table>
 761
 762 Imaging
 763 ~~~~~~~
 764
 765 .. raw:: html
 766
 767    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 768    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="3dslicer" />3D Slicer</td>
 769    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="afni" />AFNI</td>
 770    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="aeskulap" />Aeskulap</td>
 771    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="amide" />Amide</td>
 772    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 773    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="birn" />BIRN Tools</td>
 774    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainstools" />BRAINS Tools</td>
 775    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="bioimgsuite" />Bioimage Suite</td>
 776    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainmap" />BrainMap</td>
 777    </tr><tr>
 778    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvisa" />BrainVISA/Anatomist</td>
 779    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvoyager" />BrainVoyager</td>
 780    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="cmtk" />CMTK</td>
 781    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="caret" />Caret</td>
 782    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 783    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="connectomviewer" />ConnectomeViewer</td>
 784    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dsi" />DSI Studio</td>
 785    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dtitk" />DTI-TK</td>
 786    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="trackvis" />Diffusion Toolkit/Trackvis</td>
 787    </tr><tr>
 788    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fsl" />FSL</td>
 789    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fiji" />Fiji</td>
 790    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="freesurfer" />FreeSurfer</td>
 791    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="itksnap" />ITK-SNAP</td>
 792    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 793    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="imagej" />ImageJ</td>
 794    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="invesalius" />Invesalius</td>
 795    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="loni" />LONI</td>
 796    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="lipsia" />Lipsia</td>
 797    </tr><tr>
 798    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mango" />Mango</td>
 799    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mipav" />MIPAV/JIST</td>
 800    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mni" />MNI tools</td>
 801    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mricron" />MRIcron</td>
 802    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 803    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mrtrix" />MRtrix</td>
 804    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mvpa" />Matlab MVPA toolbox</td>
 805    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nibabel" />NiBabel/PyNIfTI</td>
 806    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nipy" />NiPy/NiTime/DiPy/NiPype</td>
 807    </tr><tr>
 808    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="pymvpa" />PyMVPA</td>
 809    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="rest" />REST</td>
 810    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="spm" />SPM</td>
 811    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="v3d" />V3D</td>
 812    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 813    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="voxbo" />VoxBo</td>
 814    </tr></table>
 815
 816 Data management
 817 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 818
 819 .. raw:: html
 820
 821    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 822    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="xnat" />XNAT/PyXNAT/...</td>
 823    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="hid" />Human Imaging Database (HID)</td>
 824    </tr></table>
 825
 826 Neural systems modeling
 827 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 828
 829 .. raw:: html
 830
 831    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 832    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="brian" />Brian</td>
 833    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iqr" />iqr</td>
 834    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iNVT" />iNVT</td>
 835    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neuron" />NEURON</td>
 836    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="nest" />NEST</td>
 837    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="genesis" />Genesis</td>
 838    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="moose" />Moose</td>
 839    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pcsim" />PCSIM</td>
 840    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pynn" />PyNN</td>
 841    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="topographica" />Topographica</td>
 842    </tr></table>
 843
 844 Electrophysiology, MEG/EEG
 845 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 846
 847 .. raw:: html
 848
 849    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 850    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="besa" />BESA</td>
 851    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="biosig" />BioSig</td>
 852    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="brainstorm" />BrainStorm</td>
 853    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="chronus" />Chronus</td>
 854    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="eeglab" />EEGLAB</td>
 855    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="elekta" />Elekta Neuromag</td>
 856    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 857    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="fieldtrip" />Fieldtrip</td>
 858    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="klustakwik" />KlustaKwik</td>
 859    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="loreta" />LORETA/sLORETA</td>
 860    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="mne" />MNE suite</td>
 861    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroexplorer" />NeuroExplorer</td>
 862    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openmeeg" />OpenMEEG</td>
 863    </tr><tr>
 864    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openelectrophy" />Openelectrophy</td>
 865    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="rtxi" />RTXI</td>
 866    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="relacs" />Relacs</td>
 867    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="trellis" />?Trellis-neuro</td>
 868    </tr></table>
 869
 870 Brain-computer interface
 871 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 872
 873 .. raw:: html
 874
 875    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 876    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="bci2000" />BCI2000</td>
 877    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="openvibe" />OpenVIBE</td>
 878    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="pyff" />Pyff</td>
 879    </tr></table>
 880
 881 Hardware interface/Data acquisition
 882 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 883
 884 .. raw:: html
 885
 886    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 887    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="comedi" />Comedi</td>
 888    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="epics" />EPICS</td>
 889    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="mx" />MX</td>
 890    </tr></table>
 891
 892 Real-time solutions
 893 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 894
 895 .. raw:: html
 896
 897    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 898    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtai" />RTAI</td>
 899    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="xenomai" />Xenomai</td>
 900    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtlinux" />RTLinux</td>
 901    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="preempt_rt" />PREEMPT_RT</td>
 902    </tr></table>
 903
 904 Psychophysics/Experiment control
 905 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 906
 907 .. raw:: html
 908
 909    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 910    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="dmdx" />DMDX</td>
 911    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="eprime" />E-Prime</td>
 912    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="presentation" />Presentation</td>
 913    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychopy" />PsychoPy</td>
 914    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="pyepl" />PyEPL</td>
 915    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychtoolbox" />Psychtoolbox</td>
 916    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 917    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psytoolkit" />Psytoolkit</td>
 918    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="opensesame" />OpenSesame</td>
 919    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="visionegg" />VisionEgg</td>
 920    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="tscope" />Tscope</td>
 921    </tr></table>
 922
 923 Other
 924 ~~~~~
 925
 926 .. raw:: html
 927
 928    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 929    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_other" value="other" />
 930    <input name="sw_other_name" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200"> <span style="font-size:70%">(comma-separated list)</span></td>
 931    </tr></table>
 932
 933 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 934
 935 .. raw:: html
 936
 937    <input id="submit_button" value="Submit survey" type="submit">
 938    <div id="server_response"></div>
 939    </form>
 940
 941
 942