.. _testimonials:

Testimonials
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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`

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Research Institutions
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   :group: Research institutions

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.. 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
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   :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.

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   :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.

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   :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.﻿

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   :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
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   :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!

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   :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!

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   :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.
