From ba9b8323b8378fe24d7f0b55c60ee346ac0ddf86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Hanke Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:26:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Another pass on the HBM report. --- sandbox/2011-07-10_booth_hbm2011.rst | 42 ++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/sandbox/2011-07-10_booth_hbm2011.rst b/sandbox/2011-07-10_booth_hbm2011.rst index dab453a..e49d56e 100644 --- a/sandbox/2011-07-10_booth_hbm2011.rst +++ b/sandbox/2011-07-10_booth_hbm2011.rst @@ -7,21 +7,21 @@ NeuroDebian@HBM2011.ca ====================== On June 26-30 the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping -(HBM2011_) took place in Quebec City, Canada. -Encouraged by our :ref:`positive experience at last year's SfN in San Diego -` and enthusiasm of our scientific adviser, -`James V. Haxby`_, we hosted the NeuroDebian booth. The setup was pretty much the same as last year: -Some chairs and tables (but no carpet), lots of people, our `tri-fold flyers`_, a Debian mirror -and some virtual machine images to show Debian in action. This time we also had -an LCD display attracting visitors with the :ref:`package swarm `, some demos, -and the title page of our `recent paper`_. We had many curious -people having their first exposure to Debian, long-time users expressing -their gratitude to Debian, and our upstream developers gathering together -to discuss technical and real-life issues. Because this time we registered booth as -NeuroDebian, we had additional pleasure to enlighten visitors on the nature of NeuroDebian -as a project within Debian instead of being a derived distribution. But that -is nothing new really, so let's talk about the -differences from last year's booth. +(HBM2011_) took place in Quebec City, Canada. Encouraged by our :ref:`positive +experience at last year's SfN in San Diego ` and +enthusiasm of our scientific adviser, `James V. Haxby`_, we hosted another +NeuroDebian booth. The setup was pretty much the same as last year: Some chairs +and tables, lots of people, our `tri-fold flyers`_, a Debian mirror and some +virtual machine images to show Debian in action. This time we also had an LCD +display attracting visitors with the :ref:`package swarm +`, some demos, and our `recent paper`_. We had +many curious people have their first exposure to Debian, long-time users +expressing their gratitude to Debian, and our upstream developers getting +together to discuss various topics. Having registered the booth as +"NeuroDebian", we had the additional pleasure of explaining visitors the +concept of a project *inside* Debian, in contrast to a derived distribution. +But that is nothing new really, so let's talk about the differences from last +year's booth. First of all, we had more people at the booth. Dominique Belhachemi volunteered to help us out -- and that was very much appreciated. Although HBM has only @@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ that offers free software solutions that an increasing amount of their customers demands (e.g. PsychoPy_). Apparently, the movement towards open research software has finally made it into the business plans of companies, as they seem to start perceiving compatibility with free software systems as a -competitive advantage. We explained how software gets into Debian, how its -release cycle is managed. To foster their motivation we also pointed them -to the existing open-source products other companies (often competitors) -have already made available or even present in Debian. Let's see whether we see more "Debian-certified" -research products in the future. +competitive advantage. We explained how software gets into Debian, and how its +release cycle is managed. To foster their motivation we also pointed them to +the existing open-source software that is already available or even present in +Debian. Let's see whether we see more "Debian-certified" research products in +the future. .. _PsychoPy: http://packages.debian.org/psychopy @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ this discussion during a workshop in September. A report will follow... .. _James V. Haxby: http://haxbylab.dartmouth.edu/ppl/jim.html Acknowledgments ----------------- +--------------- This booth has been made possible by the generous support of Prof. `James V. Haxby`_ (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA). -- 2.39.2