On a personal note

[dscho]

Dear community,

almost seven years ago, I started the Fiji project to address the need for
a user-friendly distribution of ImageJ with life-science specific plugins
on the one side and for a developer-friendly platform on which new image
processing and analysis components can be built on the other.

A lot happened in the meantime!

- Many useful plugins were added to the Fiji distribution, e.g. the
  Trainable Segmentation (sporting advanced machine learning "hidden"
  behind a very intuitive and easy-to-use graphical user interface) or
  several bleeding-edge plugins to process and analyze light-sheet
  microscopy (SPIM) images.

- We saw that the updater was the singularly most popular feature – both
  for developers and users, because it made the interaction between these
  two groups of scientists much easier – and extended its functionality
  e.g. to allow for personal update sites.

- We saw the need for a robust next-generation data processing library and
  came up first with ImgLib, later with the even better ImgLib2.

- We then joined ranks with the ImageJ2 project, lifting the complete Fiji
  project to a new level of professional, industry-grade software
  development.

- During a hackathon with representatives of KNIME, OMERO and Icy, the
  SciJava project was started, identifying commonly needed functionality
  and putting it into highly reusable, robustly developed software
  libraries.

- An incredibly successful paper was published in Nature Methods, cited
  almost a thousand times at the time of writing (according to Google
  Scholar).

- Many development techniques and best practices emerged that now benefit
  the entire developer community.

- Developer and web resources are now provided by LOCI in Madison, WI,
  USA, being much more scalable than our first server.

- The Fiji wiki was transmogrified into the Fiji/ImageJ wiki, with the two
  entry points http://fiji.sc and http://imagej.net being backed by the
  same, community-driven content.

- Fiji development is busier than ever, and the web site access numbers
  have climbed from a humble 4,870 unique visitors in January 2009 to
  320,365 unique visitors in October 2014.

For me personally, Fiji has landed me a job at the MPI-CBG in Dresden,
Germany, getting free reign to work on Fiji for one year, then getting the
opportunity to use Fiji extensively while leading the image processing
facility for two years. I had the flattering invitation to work with Kevin
Eliceiri and Curtis Rueden at the University Wisconsin-Madison originally
intended for two years, then extended to a third year, and I just returned
to Dresden to work with PAvel Tomancak.

The work on Fiji put me in touch with many excellent scientists in all
kinds of exciting places (Barcelona, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and
many more) and while funding was always a concern, I had many an
encouraging feedback from literally hundreds of users.

After such a long time of sustained committment and dedication, it is time
to take a slightly belated sabbatical for me.

The Fiji maintenance will be in good hands, as my good friend and
colleague Curtis Rueden agreed to step in for me; His unquestioned
integrity and skill will undoubtedly keep this project running very
smoothly.

Here's to keeping the community spirit alive!
Johannes

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[Rodrigo Gonçalves]

Dear Johannes et al.,

Cheers for a wonderful list of achievements for the benefit of all!
IMO this should serve to increase our content and hopes for a fully-developed, massive open source world :) Wish you a great "sabbatical and beyond",Rodrigo________________________
      De: Johannes Schindelin <[hidden email]>
 Para: [hidden email]
 Enviado: Viernes, 14 de noviembre, 2014 15:27:41
 Asunto: On a personal note
   
Dear community,

almost seven years ago, I started the Fiji project to address the need for
a user-friendly distribution of ImageJ with life-science specific plugins
on the one side and for a developer-friendly platform on which new image
processing and analysis components can be built on the other.

A lot happened in the meantime!

- Many useful plugins were added to the Fiji distribution, e.g. the
  Trainable Segmentation (sporting advanced machine learning "hidden"
  behind a very intuitive and easy-to-use graphical user interface) or
  several bleeding-edge plugins to process and analyze light-sheet
  microscopy (SPIM) images.

- We saw that the updater was the singularly most popular feature – both
  for developers and users, because it made the interaction between these
  two groups of scientists much easier – and extended its functionality
  e.g. to allow for personal update sites.

- We saw the need for a robust next-generation data processing library and
  came up first with ImgLib, later with the even better ImgLib2.

- We then joined ranks with the ImageJ2 project, lifting the complete Fiji
  project to a new level of professional, industry-grade software
  development.

- During a hackathon with representatives of KNIME, OMERO and Icy, the
  SciJava project was started, identifying commonly needed functionality
  and putting it into highly reusable, robustly developed software
  libraries.

- An incredibly successful paper was published in Nature Methods, cited
  almost a thousand times at the time of writing (according to Google
  Scholar).

- Many development techniques and best practices emerged that now benefit
  the entire developer community.

- Developer and web resources are now provided by LOCI in Madison, WI,
  USA, being much more scalable than our first server.

- The Fiji wiki was transmogrified into the Fiji/ImageJ wiki, with the two
  entry points http://fiji.sc and http://imagej.net being backed by the
  same, community-driven content.

- Fiji development is busier than ever, and the web site access numbers
  have climbed from a humble 4,870 unique visitors in January 2009 to
  320,365 unique visitors in October 2014.

For me personally, Fiji has landed me a job at the MPI-CBG in Dresden,
Germany, getting free reign to work on Fiji for one year, then getting the
opportunity to use Fiji extensively while leading the image processing
facility for two years. I had the flattering invitation to work with Kevin
Eliceiri and Curtis Rueden at the University Wisconsin-Madison originally
intended for two years, then extended to a third year, and I just returned
to Dresden to work with PAvel Tomancak.

The work on Fiji put me in touch with many excellent scientists in all
kinds of exciting places (Barcelona, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and
many more) and while funding was always a concern, I had many an
encouraging feedback from literally hundreds of users.

After such a long time of sustained committment and dedication, it is time
to take a slightly belated sabbatical for me.

The Fiji maintenance will be in good hands, as my good friend and
colleague Curtis Rueden agreed to step in for me; His unquestioned
integrity and skill will undoubtedly keep this project running very
smoothly.

Here's to keeping the community spirit alive!
Johannes

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[Jason Swedlow-2]

Hi Johannes

As a scientist who uses Fiji, a member of the OME Consortium that builds
software that is included in the Fiji distribution, and a participant in
the open source bioimaging community, a huge thanks from myself and
everyone involved with OME for everything you've done on the Fiji project,
and for the community at large.

Fiji is amazing becasue of the incredible people who make it happen, and
the community that uses it and provides feedback.  Enjoy the sabbatical--
we all look forward to seeing/reading the unmistakeable Dscho on the
mailing lists sometime in the future.

Cheers,

Jason

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Johannes Schindelin <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear community,
>
> almost seven years ago, I started the Fiji project to address the need for
> a user-friendly distribution of ImageJ with life-science specific plugins
> on the one side and for a developer-friendly platform on which new image
> processing and analysis components can be built on the other.
>
> A lot happened in the meantime!
>
> - Many useful plugins were added to the Fiji distribution, e.g. the
>   Trainable Segmentation (sporting advanced machine learning "hidden"
>   behind a very intuitive and easy-to-use graphical user interface) or
>   several bleeding-edge plugins to process and analyze light-sheet
>   microscopy (SPIM) images.
>
> - We saw that the updater was the singularly most popular feature – both
>   for developers and users, because it made the interaction between these
>   two groups of scientists much easier – and extended its functionality
>   e.g. to allow for personal update sites.
>
> - We saw the need for a robust next-generation data processing library and
>   came up first with ImgLib, later with the even better ImgLib2.
>
> - We then joined ranks with the ImageJ2 project, lifting the complete Fiji
>   project to a new level of professional, industry-grade software
>   development.
>
> - During a hackathon with representatives of KNIME, OMERO and Icy, the
>   SciJava project was started, identifying commonly needed functionality
>   and putting it into highly reusable, robustly developed software
>   libraries.
>
> - An incredibly successful paper was published in Nature Methods, cited
>   almost a thousand times at the time of writing (according to Google
>   Scholar).
>
> - Many development techniques and best practices emerged that now benefit
>   the entire developer community.
>
> - Developer and web resources are now provided by LOCI in Madison, WI,
>   USA, being much more scalable than our first server.
>
> - The Fiji wiki was transmogrified into the Fiji/ImageJ wiki, with the two
>   entry points http://fiji.sc and http://imagej.net being backed by the
>   same, community-driven content.
>
> - Fiji development is busier than ever, and the web site access numbers
>   have climbed from a humble 4,870 unique visitors in January 2009 to
>   320,365 unique visitors in October 2014.
>
> For me personally, Fiji has landed me a job at the MPI-CBG in Dresden,
> Germany, getting free reign to work on Fiji for one year, then getting the
> opportunity to use Fiji extensively while leading the image processing
> facility for two years. I had the flattering invitation to work with Kevin
> Eliceiri and Curtis Rueden at the University Wisconsin-Madison originally
> intended for two years, then extended to a third year, and I just returned
> to Dresden to work with PAvel Tomancak.
>
> The work on Fiji put me in touch with many excellent scientists in all
> kinds of exciting places (Barcelona, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and
> many more) and while funding was always a concern, I had many an
> encouraging feedback from literally hundreds of users.
>
> After such a long time of sustained committment and dedication, it is time
> to take a slightly belated sabbatical for me.
>
> The Fiji maintenance will be in good hands, as my good friend and
> colleague Curtis Rueden agreed to step in for me; His unquestioned
> integrity and skill will undoubtedly keep this project running very
> smoothly.
>
> Here's to keeping the community spirit alive!
> Johannes
>
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[gankaku]

Hi Johannes,

thanks for all the improvements, initiative to drive the Fiji project
further and especially all the time consuming maintenance. Obviously, one
person can't do all this alone. So, this is also a big thank you to all the
other developer and maintainers of the ImageJ/Fiji/ImageJ2 projects.
Without people that commited the whole project wouldn't stand as it does.

Working with Fiji on a daily base since its establishement keeps my
concentrated passion unchanged or actually even growing.

I hope that we will once in a while hear something from your side and that
you will come back and keep in touch with the community in future.
Remember, Fiji won't quit! Hopefully, Dscho won't quit as well!

Wish you all the best for the sabbatical and the future.

Jan

2014-11-14 19:27 GMT+01:00 Johannes Schindelin <[hidden email]>:

> Dear community,
>
> almost seven years ago, I started the Fiji project to address the need for
> a user-friendly distribution of ImageJ with life-science specific plugins
> on the one side and for a developer-friendly platform on which new image
> processing and analysis components can be built on the other.
>
> A lot happened in the meantime!
>
> - Many useful plugins were added to the Fiji distribution, e.g. the
>   Trainable Segmentation (sporting advanced machine learning "hidden"
>   behind a very intuitive and easy-to-use graphical user interface) or
>   several bleeding-edge plugins to process and analyze light-sheet
>   microscopy (SPIM) images.
>
> - We saw that the updater was the singularly most popular feature - both
>   for developers and users, because it made the interaction between these
>   two groups of scientists much easier - and extended its functionality
>   e.g. to allow for personal update sites.
>
> - We saw the need for a robust next-generation data processing library and
>   came up first with ImgLib, later with the even better ImgLib2.
>
> - We then joined ranks with the ImageJ2 project, lifting the complete Fiji
>   project to a new level of professional, industry-grade software
>   development.
>
> - During a hackathon with representatives of KNIME, OMERO and Icy, the
>   SciJava project was started, identifying commonly needed functionality
>   and putting it into highly reusable, robustly developed software
>   libraries.
>
> - An incredibly successful paper was published in Nature Methods, cited
>   almost a thousand times at the time of writing (according to Google
>   Scholar).
>
> - Many development techniques and best practices emerged that now benefit
>   the entire developer community.
>
> - Developer and web resources are now provided by LOCI in Madison, WI,
>   USA, being much more scalable than our first server.
>
> - The Fiji wiki was transmogrified into the Fiji/ImageJ wiki, with the two
>   entry points http://fiji.sc and http://imagej.net being backed by the
>   same, community-driven content.
>
> - Fiji development is busier than ever, and the web site access numbers
>   have climbed from a humble 4,870 unique visitors in January 2009 to
>   320,365 unique visitors in October 2014.
>
> For me personally, Fiji has landed me a job at the MPI-CBG in Dresden,
> Germany, getting free reign to work on Fiji for one year, then getting the
> opportunity to use Fiji extensively while leading the image processing
> facility for two years. I had the flattering invitation to work with Kevin
> Eliceiri and Curtis Rueden at the University Wisconsin-Madison originally
> intended for two years, then extended to a third year, and I just returned
> to Dresden to work with PAvel Tomancak.
>
> The work on Fiji put me in touch with many excellent scientists in all
> kinds of exciting places (Barcelona, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and
> many more) and while funding was always a concern, I had many an
> encouraging feedback from literally hundreds of users.
>
> After such a long time of sustained committment and dedication, it is time
> to take a slightly belated sabbatical for me.
>
> The Fiji maintenance will be in good hands, as my good friend and
> colleague Curtis Rueden agreed to step in for me; His unquestioned
> integrity and skill will undoubtedly keep this project running very
> smoothly.
>
> Here's to keeping the community spirit alive!
> Johannes
>
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[Avital Steinberg]

Dear Johannes,

As a person who was used to either working with a user friendly, graphical
user interface kind of software, or software which can only be used by
developers, I was very impressed with Fiji and ImageJ. It can be used by
scientists from different backgrounds and levels of coding skills. I've
also met many people from the life sciences who were inspired by Fiji's
macro recording capability, to start writing code. (since most of the code
has already been written for them)

Thank you for taking part in the development of a very important research
tool. Good luck and enjoy your sabbatical. As for the rest of the ImageJ
and Fiji developers - your hard work is appreciated!

Avital

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Johannes Schindelin <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear community,
>
> almost seven years ago, I started the Fiji project to address the need for
> a user-friendly distribution of ImageJ with life-science specific plugins
> on the one side and for a developer-friendly platform on which new image
> processing and analysis components can be built on the other.
>
> A lot happened in the meantime!
>
> - Many useful plugins were added to the Fiji distribution, e.g. the
>   Trainable Segmentation (sporting advanced machine learning "hidden"
>   behind a very intuitive and easy-to-use graphical user interface) or
>   several bleeding-edge plugins to process and analyze light-sheet
>   microscopy (SPIM) images.
>
> - We saw that the updater was the singularly most popular feature - both
>   for developers and users, because it made the interaction between these
>   two groups of scientists much easier - and extended its functionality
>   e.g. to allow for personal update sites.
>
> - We saw the need for a robust next-generation data processing library and
>   came up first with ImgLib, later with the even better ImgLib2.
>
> - We then joined ranks with the ImageJ2 project, lifting the complete Fiji
>   project to a new level of professional, industry-grade software
>   development.
>
> - During a hackathon with representatives of KNIME, OMERO and Icy, the
>   SciJava project was started, identifying commonly needed functionality
>   and putting it into highly reusable, robustly developed software
>   libraries.
>
> - An incredibly successful paper was published in Nature Methods, cited
>   almost a thousand times at the time of writing (according to Google
>   Scholar).
>
> - Many development techniques and best practices emerged that now benefit
>   the entire developer community.
>
> - Developer and web resources are now provided by LOCI in Madison, WI,
>   USA, being much more scalable than our first server.
>
> - The Fiji wiki was transmogrified into the Fiji/ImageJ wiki, with the two
>   entry points http://fiji.sc and http://imagej.net being backed by the
>   same, community-driven content.
>
> - Fiji development is busier than ever, and the web site access numbers
>   have climbed from a humble 4,870 unique visitors in January 2009 to
>   320,365 unique visitors in October 2014.
>
> For me personally, Fiji has landed me a job at the MPI-CBG in Dresden,
> Germany, getting free reign to work on Fiji for one year, then getting the
> opportunity to use Fiji extensively while leading the image processing
> facility for two years. I had the flattering invitation to work with Kevin
> Eliceiri and Curtis Rueden at the University Wisconsin-Madison originally
> intended for two years, then extended to a third year, and I just returned
> to Dresden to work with PAvel Tomancak.
>
> The work on Fiji put me in touch with many excellent scientists in all
> kinds of exciting places (Barcelona, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and
> many more) and while funding was always a concern, I had many an
> encouraging feedback from literally hundreds of users.
>
> After such a long time of sustained committment and dedication, it is time
> to take a slightly belated sabbatical for me.
>
> The Fiji maintenance will be in good hands, as my good friend and
> colleague Curtis Rueden agreed to step in for me; His unquestioned
> integrity and skill will undoubtedly keep this project running very
> smoothly.
>
> Here's to keeping the community spirit alive!
> Johannes
>
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> ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html

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