This mail includes 3 announcements:
ROOT version 5.28
We are pleased to announce that the production release ROOT 5.28 is now
available. This new version includes important enhancements in several
areas.
see http://root.cern.ch/root/v528/Version528.news.html
New ROOT Project Leader
Together with Fons, we launched the ROOT project in January 1995. Life
was not easy during the first years, forcing us to mature our project
and work hard to demonstrate that our ideas could work. In 1998 the
decision by FermiLab to use ROOT for the run II was extremely important
for the project. The Alice collaboration was already using ROOT since
1996, but the FNAL decision added more momentum to the project, in
particular when Philippe joined. Across the years, the team grew with
new expertise, new developments, boosted user support. Now a 16 years
old project, the ROOT system is widely used in HEP and many other
fields. One of my last contributions was to consolidate the team,
making sure that stable manpower was granted for the project for the
medium and long term. With the completion of this new release, I thought
that it was the right time for passing the leadership to Fons who has
been following all the facets of ROOT since the very beginning. I trust
Fons and the team to continue to provide an effective user support and
implement the new developments with LLVM and GL discussed within the
project since several months. They will continue to have, of course, my
full support.
I take this opportunity to thanks very warmly my colleagues in the ROOT
team and also the growing user community for their essential
contribution to make ROOT as it is today.
The GEANT project
I am now starting a new project named GEANT, in fact not so new
considering that I have been involved in the detector simulation field
for more than 25 years. In January, I will post more information at
http://geant.cern.ch (now empty).
This web site will include a description and the goals of the project as
well as a discussion Forum where I will invite interested people to
contribute with their ideas and criticisms. The project will be
presented in a public meeting
on Thursday 16 December. see
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=116419
In case you are interested to join this project, please do not hesitate
to contact me, all ideas are welcome.
We take this opportunity to wish you and your family
a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010
Rene Brun
Received on Wed Dec 15 2010 - 16:03:33 CET