Re: Fwd: [atlas-devel] ATLAS support letters

[Thomas Weber]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:29:02PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 16-Feb-2010, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> 
> | FYI
> | 
> | 
> | ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> | From: Clint Whaley <address@hidden>
> | Date: Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:15 AM
> | Subject: [atlas-devel] ATLAS support letters
> | To: address@hidden
> | 
> | 
> | Guys,
> | 
> | I go up for tenure this year.  The tenure committee has asked me to
> | get letters of support from ATLAS users so that they can assess the
> | service impact of my support of ATLAS (I *tell* them it is widely used, but
> | can I show it other than downloads?).  The letter would discuss a little
> | of what you do, and how you use ATLAS, and the importance of having
> | ATLAS in furthering your project goals.  So, if you are part of an
> | organization/business/open source project/research project that uses ATLAS,
> | please contact me if you or a colleague is willing to help with such a 
> letter.
> | If you know someone at such a place that uses ATLAS, forward this on.
> | I will be contacting some groups that I know use ATLAS, but I don't
> | know about the majority of people/groups who do, and I often don't
> | have records and so forget even the ones I knew used it . . .
> 
> I've written a couple of letters in support of funding the ATLAS
> project in the past and I would be glad to send another letter
> supporting your continued work on it.  Please send me details about
> where to send the letter and when it is needed.

Do letters from individual researchers count? Or should it be more like
"the whole department uses it"?

        Thomas