The Conservation Biology Institute and Wildlife Institute of India are working closely together and with the rest of the Linkage Mapper Team to further develop  the software.  Here, we are collecting data and information relevant to Linkage Mapper project priorities.  

This survey has 2 primary questions, marked with an *, which should take approximately 2 minutes to complete.  It has 10 additional optional questions. Don't forget to click the "Done!" link at the bottom of the page for your answers to get submitted.

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* 1. Please rank the following development priorities, in order of importance in your opinion:

  1. Reducing the execution time of the software
  2. A Combo-tool for running multiple Linkage Mapper tools and combining their results, all with a single click.
  3. Providing a version of pinchpoint mapper and centrality mapper that uses the Julia version of circuitscape 
  4. New functionality of existing tools
  5. New tools, like doing coreless connectivity modeling

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* 2. Please rank the following project priorities, in order of importance in your opinion:

  1. Instructional webinar series or other tutorials about using Linkage Mapper
  2. Instructional webinar series or other tutorials about making resistance surfaces and mapping core areas
  3. A webpage and/or database showing uses of Linkage Mapper in the grey literature
  4. Update of the user guides to be maintained in real-time on a website versus static as .pdfs.
  5. A webpage and/or database of Linkage Mapper in the academic literature, instead of https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22linkage+mapper%22&oq=

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* 3. How do you think we should balance our effort? (slide the ball)

Focus first on the development tasks, then work on the rest of the project even balance Focus first on the project tasks, then work on development

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* 4. If you have new functionality or new tools that you are wishing for, in addition to the above, what are they? Any other project suggestions?

Thank you!
We are trying to raise at least $1,000, which will be leveraged greatly to facilitate the software development priorities chosen, and ideally much more. We encourage you to donate at least a small amount or to ask someone else if they can help support our community endeavor. Please donate here.
If you would like to help us further understand, you, our audience, please also answer some of the optional questions below. Otherwise, just skip down and click the "Done!" button.

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* 5. Are you interested in contributing to this open source project?

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* 6. Are you interested in joining the Advisory Board, and like more information on this?

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* 7. Do you have projects that used Linkage Mapper that you would like to highlight?

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* 8. If you would like us to be able to reply to any "Yes" answers above, what is your email address? And any relavent info that you want to share? (optional)

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* 9. Name (You may choose to be anonymous for this survey)

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* 10. Organization

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* 11. In what country do you work?

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* 12. Regarding fundraising, any ideas or leads for grants, projects, or partnerships would be appreciated here. Thanks!