From ae4770c049382a8fcac9b130818e902e66769262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:55:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Minimal set of questions for a survey

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+
+Computing environments in neuroscience research
+===============================================
+
+.. raw:: html
+
+   <script language="Javascript">
+   function xmlhttpPost(strURL) {
+       var xmlHttpReq = false;
+       var self = this;
+       // Mozilla/Safari
+       if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
+           self.xmlHttpReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
+       }
+       // IE
+       else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
+           self.xmlHttpReq = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
+       }
+       self.xmlHttpReq.open('POST', strURL, true);
+       self.xmlHttpReq.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
+       self.xmlHttpReq.onreadystatechange = function() {
+           if (self.xmlHttpReq.readyState == 4) {
+               updatepage(self.xmlHttpReq.responseText);
+           }
+       }
+       self.xmlHttpReq.send(getquerystring());
+   }
+
+   function getquerystring() {
+       var form     = document.forms['f1'];
+       var word = form.word.value;
+       qstr = 'w=' + escape(word);  // NOTE: no '?' before querystring
+       return qstr;
+   }
+
+   function updatepage(str){
+       document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = str;
+   }
+   </script>
+
+General
+-------
+
+Subfield of neuroscience: ``MRI, EEG, MEG, electrophys. ...``
+Position: ``undergraduate, phd student, postdoc, professor/supervisor, sysadmin``
+employer: ``higher education (private/public funding), research facility
+(private/public funding, company)``
+country: ``long list``
+
+Personal computing environment
+------------------------------
+
+Here are a few questions about your preferred computing environment for
+research activities like data acquisition and data analysis. This might be your
+laptop, desktop, personal workstation or any other machine where **you decide**
+what software you are using, and you have permission to install it yourself.
+If you are using multiple environment, please describe the one that you find
+most productive for research purposes. If you don't have access to a machine
+for research purposes that you administer yourself, instead, please indicate
+what kind of environment you would like to be doing your research in.
+
+Type: ``laptop, commodity desktop, dedicated workstation,
+compute cluster, grid/cloud computing environment``
+
+Operating system: ``detailed choice, long list``
+
+I prefer this environment because is offers (check all items that apply):
+
+``checkboxes (variety of available software; hardware support; ...)``
+
+
+Institutionally provided computing environment
+----------------------------------------------
+
+The following questions are about 
+What your employer offers.
+
+Type: ``laptop, commodity desktop, dedicated workstation,
+compute cluster, grid/cloud computing environment``
+
+Operating system: ``detailed choice, long list``
+
+I dislike (check all items that apply):
+
+``checkboxes (limited set of available software; slow admin response; ...)``
+
+Virtualization
+--------------
+
+Do you use it:
+
+IF
+~~
+
+What solution: ``multi select vbox, vmware, kvm, xem, qemu``
+On what host system: ``detailed list``
+With what client system ``detailed list``
+
+Why do you use it:
+
+Otherwise incompatible with my system
+Flexible snapshots
+Portable
+
+What fraction of computing task do you do in a VM?
+
+
+Software usage
+--------------
+
+What software are you using in your research?
+
+General purpose computing
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+``check boxes``
+
+Matlab, R, Python, Octave, ...
+
+``various collections of software for various purposes``
+
+....
+
+
+.. raw:: html
+
+   <input value="Go" type="button" onclick='JavaScript:xmlhttpPost("/cgi-bin/surveycollector.cgi")'></p>
+   <div id="result"></div>
+   </form>
+
+
+Thanks
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