Hi Tim, Thanks for this nice posting. I hope that many people will contribute to your site. I have added a link to your site from the main ROOT web page in the left column. May be it would be a good idea from our side to provide support to projects and experiments proportionally to the information and quality of information posted to your site ::) Rene Brun Timothy Smith wrote: > > 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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