Re: [ROOT] RootAux - a new website to help you find Root related projects

From: Timothy Smith (tim_smith@mit.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 03:52:54 MET


Hello Rene and all Rooters

	Thanks for the endorsement!  RootAux is adding 1-2 sites 
per day.  I encourage people to use it to find things,  and to list
themselves on it.  If there are any problems - I'm only an email
away.

	About supporting project listed at RootAux;  
REMEMBER IT IS CHRISTMAS! We should be kind until the New Year
when most people have got themselves listed :)

					Tim Smith		



On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Rene Brun wrote:

> 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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 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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