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
.. :group: Organizations
-By Topic
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-
-* :ref:`testimonials_open_science`
-* :ref:`testimonials_standardization`
-* :ref:`testimonials_vm`
-
-
Research Institutions
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.. 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
--------------------------
.. quotes::
:group: Research software projects
+
.. quote::
:author: Stephan Gerhard, et al.
:date: 2011-06-06
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
---------------------------------------
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.
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