On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Geoffrey Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
If anyone who is interested missed the earlier post, here is some more information on the project: http://davidlonie.blogspot.com/2011/06/overdue-update-gsocvtkchemistry.html http://davidlonie.blogspot.com/2011/07/vtkchemistry-now-with-electrons.html I'll be sending out another email on this subject later today. I'd like to get some community requests now that basic rendering is working. > 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. I agree -- a release from trunk is long overdue. I have a few bugs to fix and features requests to add before we do this. Should we go ahead and set a timeline for the next 1.1.x release? > 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 Very cool! Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Storage Efficiency Calculator This modeling tool is based on patent-pending intellectual property that has been used successfully in hundreds of IBM storage optimization engage- ments, worldwide. Store less, Store more with what you own, Move data to the right place. Try It Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51427378/ _______________________________________________ Avogadro-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel
