Re: Your help is needed for the continuation of MCX/MMC projects

[Qianqian Fang]

Dear MCX and MMC users:

Here is just a reminder on the on-going petition for
testimonials to support a new proposal to continue
developing MCX/MMC. Your input, even brief, can be
of tremendous help for us to get the needed funding
support for further development, as well as to provide
you formal training courses and timely support.

Over the past week, I've received 18 testimonials and
6 agreed support letters. I appreciate very much for
those who had shared their inputs.

We are close to half way to our target: 50 testimonials
and 10 support letters. If you find MCX/MMC helpful,
please click on the following link and share a few words
regarding what you thought about this software:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-MVUPsfQhsi5KaAHTeHtPU9ew5-rkrLKfKLmChk6igk/viewform?usp=send_form

thank you all for your valuable feedback!

Qianqian


PS: just to share you what I found out over the past week:
MCX and MMC have received >200 combined citations (based on
Google Scholar), more than 500 registered users worldwide,
over 9,000 accumulative downloads and nearly 20,000
unique web visitors (based on Google Analytics) over the
past 4 years.


On 05/04/2014 07:31 PM, Qianqian Fang wrote:

Dear MCX and MMC users:

It has been a real pleasure watching the user's community
grow over the past years. Writing and maintaining these
codes have been the fun part of my life, and I enjoyed
every interaction with the users - on the mailing list,
private communication, or face-to-face discussions during
conferences.

In the past several years, I have been maintaining these
projects exclusively using my personal time. With the
worsened funding situations, it becomes increasingly
difficult to continue developing these packages as well
as to support the stably growing user community.

To make it possible to get protected efforts and bring
more stable, powerful MC software to our users, I would
like to apply for an NIH R21 mechanism. If funded, a number
of exciting new development will be delivered, including
a fast Jacobian calculation and streamlined image
reconstruction capability (partially implemented),
extended support for wide-field/pattern illumination
and camera-based detectors (partially implemented),
and a new technique that can speed up MC by 5-10
fold independent of hardware acceleration! More
importantly, this funding will enable the long expected
training courses for our users to learn all the tricks
and features of MCX/MMC.

I need everyone's help to make this possible. If you
found your research benefits, or will be benefit, from
MCX/MMC, I would like to get a few lines from you on
how MCX/MMC was incorporated in your works and
how the continuation of the project will impact your
research. Please take a couple of minutes to fill out a
simple form online:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-MVUPsfQhsi5KaAHTeHtPU9ew5-rkrLKfKLmChk6igk/viewform?usp=send_form

If google drive is not accessible to you, you can send me
an email with the following information:

Your Name:
Title:
Lab/Division Name:
Institution:
Funding Source (optional):
Testimonial (A few words on how you use MCX/MMC in your research and why it is important to you):
 
If you are a PI and consider MCX/MMC as an important
part of your projects, please also consider writing a 1-2 page
support letter. Let me know if you plan to do so. My goal
is to collect 5-10 support letters and 50 testimonials in
the next 3 weeks (by May 25).

I appreciate very much your help to advocate for this
project. We together can make MCX/MMC a valuable
platform for the community!

Qianqian

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