[ome-users] What do you think of OME?

[Jason Swedlow]

Hi All-

It's that time again-- we're renewing our grants from the Wellcome  
Trust and the BBSRC.  One of the things funders want to see is that  
the OME project provides a valuable service to the community.  The  
grants we are renewing support a substantial portion of our  
developers and also pay for all of our servers, email lists,  
meetings, etc.  We know our software is being accessed-- we are  
currently seeing >100 downloads of our server applications per  
month.  Feedback on these lists, bug tracking, update requests, etc.  
suggest it is in use, but we need as much CONCRETE evidence as we can  
get.

Therefore, we are asking you to write to us and give us your comments  
about the OME project-- anything and everything:  OME file formats,  
Bio-formats, OME server and OMERO software, user support,  
interaction, response, or whatever else you can think of.  You can  
use this forum, or write to me directly.  Some of you work for  
commercial entities and would prefer not to let us know your  
affiliation.  That's fine, just contact us using your favorite  
generic email account (hotmail, gmail, or whatever) and tell us you  
work for "a pharmaceutical company" or whatever.  If we requested, we  
will guarantee anonymity of the submissions-- that is not a problem.

Any comments, positive or negative are welcome.  Even just to know  
you are running the software, and still getting to know it is  
helpful.  Maybe you WOULD run it if it only did X or Y-- any feedback  
at all.  But it is IMPERATIVE that we have this input so that we can  
provide evidence of a community we are serving-- that is the only way  
to justify further funding.

We'll need these by Feb 28 in order to collate them for submission.   
If you have any questions about this, please don't hesitate to  
contact me.

Our thanks in advance for this-- we appreciate your help and support.

Cheers,

Jason


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