Hi all, the COIN-OR foundation, that supports the development of open-source mathematical optimization software, is organizing a workshop at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis: https://www.coin-or.org/ima/oct2018/ Libreoffice Calc has an interface for some COIN-OR software, via coin-mp. There could be other opportunities to integrate COIN-OR software into Calc: for example, Excel has SolverStudio: http://solverstudio.org/
The goal of the IMA workshop is to jointly discuss future development plans for COIN-OR software, and do coding sprints with common goals. We are inviting people from various organizations related to COIN-OR, including MathWorks, Julia, and so on; and there will be experts on COIN-OR software. We would be happy to get Libreoffice developers involved. If there is an interest in participating to the workshop, please let me know. Ideally, we're looking for someone who is familiar with Calc Solver and its interfaces, and is willing to work with other people to improve/streamline existing interfaces, develop additional interfaces, or improve the integration/interaction between optimization software and Calc. Remote participation could be possible. We should be able to fully support travel expenses to invite one developer from within the US, possibly from Europe: but I am not going to promise anything about the level of funding until everything is finalized :-) I am not sure how your development teams are set up, but feel free to discuss here or get in touch directly if you have questions. Cheers Giacomo _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
