We haven't talked about a release much. I think it's worth some discussion just to bring life back to the mailing lists. :-)
First some good news. Even though there haven't been many code updates, there's a lot of progress on other fronts. 1) Marcus got money from the US Army Core of Engineers to improve Avogadro, including a queueing system, an integrated SQL database for storing and querying calculations, and several other things. The first phase is done, and there's hope for Phase II funding. I believe Marcus intends to start integrating that code later this summer. 2) As discussed earlier on the list, Kitware has a Google Summer of Code student to work on VTK chemistry support. That's David Lonie, and the intent is to enable Avogadro-VTK integration for improved visualization (e.g., volumetric rendering). 3) I received some money through the DoD's high performance computing PETTT funding to improve support for building and editing crystals/surfaces in Avogadro, including interfaces to Abinit, LAMMPS, and a bit more. David was working independently on other bits, so I think in the next few months, Avogadro will have some great support for surfaces. Polymers are also on the agenda. Anyone interested in these projects, please let us know. As part of #3, I need to make a 1.1.0 release by the end of August. We need one anyway. My feeling is that we should improve the current development trunk to make 1.1/1.2 releases and then aim for a 2.0 release sometime in the 2nd half of 2012. Thoughts? -Geoff P.S. Early next month, we'll push above 200,000 downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/avogadro/files/stats/timeline?dates=2006-04-15+to+2011-07-24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ _______________________________________________ Avogadro-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel
