[Eeglablist] Request for EEGLAB letter of support

[Scott Makeig]

Dear EEGLAB Users -  To those of you who did *not* send a letter of support
for our application to NIH (US) for continued support for development and
maintenance of the EEGLAB environment several months ago, this is a second
chance to include letters of support sent by email to
*eeglab at sccn.ucsd.edu*by Friday, Nov. 2 (9 days from now).

The reviewers of our first submission complained most about the format we
used for the application -- something we are working hard to fix in this
submission. They also stated their feeling that "EEGLAB must be supported,"
 a feeling with which we hope you may agree.

This is our second=last chance for continued support under an NIH program
intended to support development and maintenance of 'existing software,' so
we would most appreciate letters  that emphasize your use of EEGLAB in
funded research (explicitly listing any US-funded projects or partners
involved). Also of interest: letters that emphasize your use of the EEGLAB
environment to publish and share your own methods and software; letters
that emphasize the educational value you may have derived from working with
EEGLAB tools and documentation, including the live and online EEGLAB
workshops.

For your possible interest, following are our current draft Specific Aims.
Judging from recent experience, these are likely only some of the ways in
which EEGLAB tools (and human electrophysiological research in general)
will grow in our collective use in coming years:

*SA1)* *Develop and release tools implementing state-of-the-art and
innovative signal processing methods*: Develop and/or import tools building
on the EEGLAB core for EEG source separation and localization: Advanced,
robust, automated approaches to source identification including innovative
independent component analysis (ICA) and beamforming methods. Improved
source localization including MR-based source imaging based on dipole and
cortical patch elements. Better 3-D brain source visualizations. New tools
for modeling and visualizing source-level effective connectivity at the
subject and group levels. New tools to perform more flexible measure
statistics via a direct interface to R. An innovative software environment
(MoBILAB) for multimodal imaging including electrophysiology.

*SA2) Develop and release tools implementing state-of-the-art and
innovative computational methods: *Develop and/or import new tools to
support intensive processing of large datasets with limited resources,
including improved MATLAB memory usage methods.* *Develop tools to support
use of publicly available cloud computing and GPU resources to support
computation using EEGLAB plug-in tool sets. Promote more formal data
curation and sharing by building an active interface for adding task,
event, and subject metadata to data entered into a new open-source database
and private/public data sharing and search ecosystem, HeadIT. **

*SA3)* *Maintain and strengthen EEGLAB core code,* *tools, and outreach
efforts:* Maintain existing EEGLAB core code using the EEGLAB Bugzilla
facility. Continuing to implement and maintain industry-standard code
testing procedures. Continue providing a fully free and fully functional
compiled version of EEGLAB, and (non-graphic) function compatibility with
the open source Octave Matlab-code interpreter. Maintain and update EEGLAB
documentation including the tutorial wiki and an extended Online EEGLAB
Workshop and Course on electrophysiological brain imaging. Develop a
new EEGLAB forum and chat room website. Offer a monthly EEGLAB developers
conference call. Develop a volunteer Board of Advisors consisting of
advanced users and developers, plus interested advisors, to help guide
further EEGLAB development.

To those who sent a letter of support for our last submission some months
ago -- thanks again. We will include your letter in this next submission --
marked as such. A new letter emphasizing your recommendation could also be
helpful!

for the EEGLAB development team,

Scott Makeig
Arnaud Delorme

p.s. We will also read with interest and consider your any suggestions for
the proposal or otherwise.

-- 
Scott Makeig, Research Scientist and Director, Swartz Center for
Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, University of
California San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0559, http://sccn.ucsd.edu/~scott
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