Re: [ROOT] ROOT in the world.

From: Iouri Chitov (chitov@lal.in2p3.fr)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 17:32:37 MEST


Hi Rene,

Many thanks for numbers! I put them to my proposal... I'll investigate
this problem deeper, when I'll have time... and grant! :)

Best,
Yuri.

 ---/---> Chitov Yuriy        The more, the better...
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Rene Brun wrote:

> Hi Yuriy,
>
> I don't think that you will find a review on the usage of ROOT.
>
> I have tried to maintain a few links at the beginning of the project at:
>   http://root.cern.ch/root/ExApplications.html
>
> but this has not been a big success. Many people posting the URL describing
> their project do not report the address change when the project is
> moved/upgraded to a new URL.
> Another attempt was made two years ago at the MIT to maintain a list
> of applications, but the list does not seem to be maintained anymore.
>
> We have more information from users registering to our data base and indicating
> their work domain. Out of 3371 registered users, we have
>  - 2148 in High-Energy or Nuclear Physics
>  -  799 in other scientific fields
>  -  175 in commercial applications
>  -  249 for private use
>
> but we do not know the real number of users. 80,000 copies of the Users Guide
> have been exported in two years.
>
> I have no problems adding more references to our ExApplications.html page.
>
> Rene Brun
>
>
>
> Iouri Chitov wrote:
> >
> > Hi, ROOTers!
> >
> > I'm wondering if somebody made a review of world usage of ROOT
> > (spatial and time statistics, structure of tasks, relative usage of
> > ROOT modules, applications beyond physics, etc...). I'll be very
> > grateful for any references of this kind.
> >
> > Moreover, it would be useful to create separate section at ROOT site
> > (something like "ROOT in the world") specially devoted to accumulate
> > such kind of information and links.
> >
> > http://root.cern.ch/root/ExApplications.html
> >
> > looks like the best embryo to grow this new section.
> >
> > What is the reason to do it? I think that I'm not a single, who write
> > grants asking money to develop ROOT-based applications for projects
> > :).
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Yuriy.
>



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