Hello ROOTers, I would like to announce a new website which is designed to help you find out what other root users have developed. The site is called "Root Auxiliary" and is located at: http://rootAux.lns.mit.edu/ Who has is using Root with real time Linux? Has anybody developed a partial wave analysis package with Root? Are there interfaces to hardware? Does anyone have a strip chart? Spectrums? Particle ID? Cross Sections? etc. ......... "Root Auxiliary" is a clearing house of information about the many projects and the substantial array of software which the ROOT Users Community has developed. It is motivated by the idea that when you start a project it would always be useful to know what other people have already done. Maybe the problem has already been solved elsewhere. If not the exact same problem - perhaps something similar. Perhaps there is the potential to collaborate? If only you knew what other people are doing. The RootAux website is designed to help. The way is works is that people who have developed projects / software libraries / packages / classes, can list those packages, with description and their URLs on the RootAux website. People coming into the site can then either browse the descriptions, or use the search engine to search for something in particular. An additional feature is that when a package is listed the suppler of the information can also allow RootAux to "index" their site. An index means that RootAux has looked at many of the files on the supplier's site and build up an index of keywords. This index can then be used by the search engine on RootAux to not only search descriptions of packages, but also search the information suppliers original site. At present, only a very few projects are listed. A search of RootAux this morning could not find the answers to yesterday's RootTalk question, "who has a strip chart?" But if a project which had a strip chart was listed on RootAux - the answer could have been found. Not all the questions list at the top can presently be answered, but some can. The only way RootAux can supply information to the whole Root Users Community is if the Community supplies information to it. Please do not be the last one to register your site/project on RootAux. If you want the world to know what you have done with Root -> list it on RootAux. If you want to see what other people have been doing -> search RootAux. http://rootAux.lns.mit.edu/ Tim Smith ____________________________________________________________________ Timothy Paul Smith Research Scientist MIT Bates Lab tim_smith@mit.edu 21 Manning Rd. tel: (617) 253-9207 Middleton, MA 01949 fax: (617) 253-9599
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