>>> I understand that all the developers are doing your PhDs >> >> It's gotten worse than that now that the primary developers are all >> graduated. E.g. the adaptive p refinement was something I did on a >> lark as a break from my dissertation research. It's harder to find >> time for things like that now that most of my work isn't libMesh >> related and the libMesh stuff needs to be either reasonably related to >> my job or on my own time.
It's not all doom and gloom, though, a number of us are using libMesh and derived application codes to solve problems at work... So at least I am confident there is a place for the library well into the future. The issue is that these tend to be more "industrial-type" applications, where higher-order elements are often not used for various reasons (non-smooth solutions, sharp complex geometry, etc...) So what we really need is someone who wants to become a primary developer and then jumps to a pure applied math position. (Does Varis read this thread? ;-) ) -Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
