X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=sphinx%2Ftestimonials.rst;h=b92d0e2af56f192b84fe31d7d013e47b722b9316;hb=HEAD;hp=df70ba2b17e299c9adf70109786bca764e3620aa;hpb=6b43dc340aff0a417fe3130f2707d0093a2bf8ca;p=neurodebian.git diff --git a/sphinx/testimonials.rst b/sphinx/testimonials.rst index df70ba2..b92d0e2 100644 --- a/sphinx/testimonials.rst +++ b/sphinx/testimonials.rst @@ -1,6 +1,18 @@ +.. _testimonials: + Testimonials ============ +Here is some feedback we got from the neuroscience community on various +occasions. On this page it is grouped by its origin (i.e. `research +institutions`_, `research software projects`_, `individual laboratories and +researchers`_). Alternatively, you can read testimonials related to specific +topics: + +* :ref:`testimonials_open_science` +* :ref:`testimonials_standardization` +* :ref:`testimonials_vm` + .. None so far replied .. .. Organizations @@ -19,6 +31,19 @@ Research Institutions .. not implemented for now .. :sections: group +.. quote:: + :author: Christian Haselgrove + :affiliation: Vice President for Neuroinformatics at + Neuromorphometrics, Inc; University of Massachusetts Medical School + :date: 2013-02-06 + :tags: email, derivatives, management + + Developing informatics infrastructure often involves building + complex systems that require interaction between existing + components such as software and atlases. NeuroDebian makes it + trivial to manage the components of these systems, freeing me to + focus on the novel and important aspects of my work. + Research Software Projects -------------------------- @@ -27,9 +52,192 @@ Research Software Projects :group: Research software projects +.. quote:: + :author: Stephan Gerhard, et al. + :date: 2011-06-06 + :tags: practices, quality + :source: The Connectome Viewer Toolkit, Front. Neuroinform. 5:3. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00003 + + For proper software packaging and distribution, the NeuroDebian project provides professional expertise and infrastructure. + +.. quote:: + :author: Chuck Theobald + :affiliation: Lewis Center for Neuroimaging, University of Oregon, MRIConvert/mcverter build master and developer + :tags: email, impact, software distribution, upstream, dissemination + :date: 2013-02-06 + + As a system administrator, I support the efforts of a number of + researchers who use fMRI analysis software. I was overjoyed to find + the NeuroDebian repository, a one-stop shop for nearly every + software package the researchers use. The work of the NeuroDebian + Team greatly simplifies the task of providing our researchers the + best software available, and I consider the repository a vital part + of my professional life. As a maintainer on the MRIConvert + project, I find that NeuroDebian provides a valuable venue for + dissemination of our software. It would not be possible to reach + the same wide audience without the NeuroDebian repository. + +.. quote:: + :author: Dr. Kiyotaka Nemoto + :affiliation: University of Tsukuba + :tags: email, derivatives, time + :date: 2013-02-06 + + Neurodebian is the best solution for researchers in neuroscience. + Everybody should have experienced wasting so much time in just setting + up software. With Neurodebian repository, you can easily setup many + useful software packages and focus on your research. I recommend this + repository to everyone who is interested in using Linux in + neuroscience. + +.. quote:: + :author: Dr. Andrew Janke + :affiliation: Center for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Australia + :date: 2013-02-06 + :tags: email, upstream, stability, versioning, provenance, vm, + reproducibility, collaboration + + We use NeuroDebian on a daily basis as it provides a stable and + versioned software base for analysis. This is critical as it allows us + to maintain data provenance, something that is often sorely lacking. + Our collaborators who don't quite have their heads around Linux yet + are pointed to the NeuroDebian Virtual Machine, it allows them to run + an identical analysis environment to us regardless of where they are + or operating system. + +.. quote:: + :author: Nina Preuss + :affiliation: PMP, nitrc.org + :date: 2013-02-06 + :tags: disqus, money, quality, contributions, cloud, derivatives + + NITRC-CE, or the NITRC Computational Environment, on the Amazon + Marketplace wouldn't have happened as quickly and thus cost effectively + without leveraging NeuroDebian's good works. We appreciate their + critical contribution to the neuroimaging compute community. + +.. quote:: + :author: Sebastiaan Mathôt + :affiliation: Aix-Marseille université, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive + :date: 2013-02-06 + :tags: email, impact + + For any neuroscientist that relies on open-source software, + NeuroDebian is the single most important resource. + +.. quote:: + :author: Sebastian Eichelbaum + :affiliation: OpenWalnut project, Image and Signal Processing Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany + :date: 2013-02-11 + :tags: email, breadth, dissemination + + With NeuroDebian we can utilize thousands of tools, providing the foundation for our research. On the other hand, we can provide our tools to a large community easily. + + +.. quote:: + :author: Francisco Pereira + :affiliation: Siemens Corporate Research + :date: 2013-02-06 + :tags: gplus, time + + Thanks to NeuroDebian I now have to spend my time thinking hard about what to do with the tools, rather than leisurely installing them and tracking dependencies. + +.. quote:: + :author: Alexander Wiebel + :affiliation: OpenWalnut project, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Germany + :date: 2013-02-19 + :tags: email, breadth, dissemination + + It is great to have NeuroDebian as a platform to bring our + visualization system OpenWalnut to a broad audience together with the large variety of + related data analysis tools available in NeuroDebian. + + + Individual Laboratories and Researchers --------------------------------------- .. quotes:: :group: Individual laboratories and researchers + +.. quote:: + :author: Prof. Petr Hlustik + :affiliation: Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Palacky University School of Medicine and University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic + :date: 2010-10-11 + :tags: breadth + + [...] those wonderful tools in Debian Neuro [...] make my life as a + researcher who also maintains a bunch of Debian boxes so much easier. + +.. quote:: + :author: Dr. Jo Etzel + :affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington University + :date: 2012-03-15 + :tags: vm + + I am a dedicated R user ... and have a Windows box. But this + afternoon I (finally) downloaded and installed NeuroDebian and the + VirtualBox, ran AFNI, and generated the files I needed, all within + about an hour and a half. [...] not bad, considering that I know + essentially no Linux/Unix. So here's a big "thanks!" :) + +.. quote:: + :author: Vincent Kersten + :affiliation: University Medical Center Utrecht + :tags: email, standardization, money, Debian + :date: 2013-02-06 + + Neurodebian provides us with a consitent way of sotware packaging + and upgrades, eliminating tedious compiles and home-brew setups, + while seamlessly integrating with the Debian distribution. Excellent + and very valuable work, saving costs and difficult to spot + errors. High five Michael, Yaroslav and team! Keep them packages + coming! + +.. quote:: + :author: Christian Stephan-Otto + :affiliation: Neuroimaging Research Group, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain + :date: 2013-02-06 + :tags: email, vm, breadth + + Since I started using a NeuroDebian virtual machine on win64 months + ago I am relying more and more on its diverse tools, from + population-specific template creation to pipelining the analysis of + fMRI, DTI and morphology studies. There is a great chance I will + end up working exclusively with NeuroDebian! + +.. quote:: + :author: Mathias Goldau + :affiliation: Cortical Networks, Max-Planck-Institute for neurological research, Cologne, Germany + :date: 2013-02-07 + :tags: email, time, breadth + + Without NeuroDebian we would have wasted precious time for + deploying software, and we wouldn't have tested so many software + tools. + +.. quote:: + :author: Joseph Viviano + :affiliation: York University, Toronto Canada + :date: 2013-02-19 + :tags: email, reproducibility, versioning, impact + + NeuroDebian not only helped our lab focus on research and producing + results with FOSS, it has also made it much easier to maintain + version control, facilitating data portability and + reproducibility. I see this as the most important current project + working towards transparent neuroscientific methods with clear and + reproducible results. + +.. quote:: + :author: Dr. Bertram Walter + :affiliation: Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Germany + :date: 2013-02-22 + :tags: email, money, maintenance, support, quality + + Neurodebian provides not only a platform for neuroscience + applications that makes maintenance of collections of tools + easy. The staff also gives a very quick support in case of - very + rare - problems. Altogether Neurodebian saves a lot of time and + money.