Hi Geoff, 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 will certainly be talking about this, and will be releasing more of this work once I have it in a more general form. The Phase II funding would be a much bigger multi-year project with a larger team, and I will certainly let people know here as soon as I know more. > > 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. That is great news. > > 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 think that is a great idea, I will be out of the office (OSCON this week, and Desktop Summit in early August), and will be talking about our work at both meetings. With 2.0 I am eager to get working on this and would want to make alpha/betas earlier, but that time frame seems reasonable for a stable release. I would like to start making progress on relicensing code that can be relicensed, leading into the 2.0 project. That is something I have been meaning to push ahead with, and it would be great to get a feeling for how much could be used. For new work it would be great to start putting it under BSD license from the start to avoid more work in the future (unless it cannot be for some reason). Marcus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
