[pymvpa] Last call for: Supporting NeuroDebian to support YOUR computing environment

[Scott Gorlin]

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<debian at onerussian.com> wrote:
> Dear PyMVPA Developers and Users,
>
> This Friday is our deadline to furnish all grant application materials.
> If you were planing on supporting our application and have not yet
> expressed your excitement in terms of letter of support -- you have only
> few days left ;-)
>
> With best regards,
> Yaroslav
>
> On Fri, 03 Sep 2010, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>
>> Dear PyMVPA Developers and Users,
>
>> The NeuroDebian [1] Team (compare to PyMVPA Team [1a]) is asking
>> for your support.  We are hoping to obtain funding for continued
>> maintenance, development and expansion of the NeuroDebian project.  If
>> you are using a Debian or Ubuntu operating system for your neuroscience
>> research you might already benefit from our efforts of integrating
>> neuroscientific software into these platforms.  For the past 5 years our
>> team has provided Debian/Ubuntu packaging, maintenance and
>> troubleshooting for open source software, such as ANTs, FSL, Caret,
>> MRIcron, NiPy(PE), PsychoPy, PyMVPA and Voxbo (see [2] and [3] for more
>> complete references).  Having research software developed by different
>> groups with different technologies properly integrated into a uniform
>> environment allows scientists to easily maintain a versatile up-to-date
>> research environment with just of few commands/mouse-clicks and focus on
>> actual research instead of tedious system administration tasks.
>
>> To be able to continue providing this service to the community for the next
>> years we are planning to submit a proposal (with PI Dr. James V. Haxby) in
>> response to NIH program announcement PAR-08-010: Continued Development and
>> Maintenance of Software (R01) titled
>
>>   NeuroDebian: reliable and versatile research platform for neuroscience
>
>> Please see the attached abstract for a more detailed description of the
>> proposal.
>
>> If you would like to see the NeuroDebian project to continue its development,
>> expand coverage of relevant software and provide additional features, such as
>> easy cloud-computing setups, we would be thankful if you send your "Letter of
>> Support" via email [4] (preferably a PDF) or fax [5] to provide additional
>> weight for our application.  For your convenience, we have composed a
>> generic letter template [6].
>
>> Thank you very much in advance for your support,
>
>> the NeuroDebian team
>> (heavily overlapping in content with PyMVPA team)
>
>> [1] http://neuro.debian.net/#the-team
>> [1a] http://www.pymvpa.org/#authors-contributors
>> [2] http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs.html
>> [3] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=team@neuro.debian.net
>> [4] mailto: NeuroDebian Team <team at neuro.debian.net>
>> [5] Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419
>> [6] http://neuro.debian.net/_files/letter_of_support_template.txt
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