Very nice!
One idea might be to also create a kind of online questionnaire they fill in before getting software and one after regarding their experience (what part they found most useful, what is its biggest strength, what they use it for, but also negatives). In the event that we can convince enough people to do, then can even include lines in manuscript alluding to this beta testing like (from questionnaire before): X out of X beta testers used X-type of spectrometers combined with a confocal microscope and had a background in Biology”..
(and from after) …out of X people that used X, X of them identified X as the most useful feature or Y used this feature.
Long term this can allow us to also track demographic of people who download (main user base) if they have to somehow fill in prior to downloading (but I guess that’s tricky to program and not feasible if free on github etc., so would have to be a voluntary thing)
From: Pierre Bouvet via Software <software@biobrillouin.org>
Reply to: Pierre Bouvet <pierre.bouvet@meduniwien.ac.at>
Date: Friday, 29. August 2025 at 13:36
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Subject: [Software] Re: [EXTERN] Re: Proposition of paragraph for next Newsletter Hi everyone,
Following a mail I sent Carlo this morning, here is a first version of a document I made to help first timers use the HDF5_BLS library. The idea is to send this PDF together with a demo Python script to people answering the newsletter call so they can follow a rapid tutorial on how to use the library and rapidly give us their feedback. I’ll make a second document on how to use the treatment soon.
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