Re: ROOT5.28: New ROOT Project Leader: The GEANT project

Hi Rene,
As one of the first ROOT users from the early ALICE times I would like to thank you for
the enormous effort you did to make ROOT become the wonderful product it is now.
Also knowing Fons for a very long time (since he still was a student actually :) I am fully
confident that under his leadership the product will continue to grow to an ever increasing quality level.

So I would like to invite everyone on the forum to join me in a big hand for Rene and wishing Fons
all the best in his new role as project lead. And of course Rene : Bon courage in your new GEANT project.

Cheers,
Nick.

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Rene Brun <Rene.Brun_at_cern.ch> wrote:

> 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
>
>

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