{"id":4951,"date":"2012-11-07T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:14:59","slug":"volunteers-for-focus-group-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/volunteers-for-focus-group-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers for focus group needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are looking for a select group of volunteers to test and provide feedback on a new software product.<\/p>\n<p>If you<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are an administrator or developer and write scripts or programs (language does not matter).\n<li>work by yourself (mostly) or in a team no more than 5.\n<li>have not used any source control product or\n<li>have installed a source control product but find it too difficult to setup or use\n<li>have installed, used and abandoned a source control product.\n<li>feel guilty that your code is not backed up as frequently as it should be.\n<li>lost source code files due to hard drive errors\/ crash \/ virus or plain user error.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>we may want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>If any three of the points above apply to you, please email to <a href=\"mailto:focusgroup@sapien.com\">focusgroup@sapien.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please give us a brief overview regarding which of the above topics apply to you. 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