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lang="EN-GB">Dear Developer team,</span><br>
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I would like to invite you on behalf of the EMMC-CSA (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.emmc.info"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.emmc.info</a>) </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">to participate in an interview to aid us with a
study on “Options for a sustainable economic framework for
materials modelling software”. We would like to interview you
about Quantum-Espresso, please. </span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">The Principal Investigator (PI) is
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">Dr</span> Gerhard
Goldbeck of Goldbeck Consulting who is a
beneficiary of the EMMC-CSA project. Dr Goldbeck
is the author of “Economic impact of materials
modelling”, a number of related case studies and
contributed to “The CEN (European Committee for
Standardization) Workshop Agreement CWA 17284
“Materials modelling – terminology,
classification and metadata”. </span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">You will be asked 40 questions
(which we can provide in advance if you wish) to
define what is needed to find solutions for
different forms of software including individual
software components, comprehensive codes and
software platforms. Various licensing options
will be analysed ranging from open source to
proprietary software. The task will be driven by
the needs of industrial end users. </span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">This interview may happen via
skype/telephone or in person which will be
agreed with you before the interview. The
interview should take approximately 40-50
minutes to complete and may happen from now to
ideally mid August 2018.<br>
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lang="EN-GB"> </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">The benefit of these interviews
will be that this study will lead to a
contemporary whitepaper that covers the current
landscape of</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">sustainable economic framework for
materials modelling software and provides you
with information of what an end user expects of
your established venture. It also will serve as
a starting point to budding entrepreneurs in the
field, i.e. how to bring academic codes faster
into industry.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">I hope you may be interested in
sharing your expertise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Looking forward to your answer,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">with kind regards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Alex</span></p>
-- <br>
<div class="moz-signature"><b>Dr Alexandra Simperler</b><br>
Simperler Consulting</div>
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