[Jmol-users] Re: [Cdk-devel] A CDK Newsletter?

[Christoph S. <c.s...@un...>]

Good idea, this newsletter.
Of course I consider it my duty to share at least half of the burden of=20
making it.
For greatest productivity, we need a way of creating both a web page and=20
a  portable document from our document source. Further, the each version=20
should be CVS maintained.
Al tough I think that LaTeX is still a very productive tool for writing,=20
I suggest we give docbook a try once more :-)
Egon, we could meet in person again to establish the framework.

Cheers,

Chris

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E.L. Willighagen wrote:

> Hi all,
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> CDK is getting larger and more used every day. Even though I have a pre=
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> good overview of what is going on with the CDK, it might be time to sta=
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> three-monthual newsletter with short articles on CDK internals, use and=
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> small tutorials. Aimed mainly at users, but very interesting to develop=
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> too, because it is no longer feasible to understand the whole of CDK.
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> Thus, I would like to start a newsletter. A good example is the 'R News=
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> newsletter http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/, or the R Project which=
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> an OpenSource statistical software package (very good btw, though graph=
ics
> are not as good as MatLab yet).
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> Such a news letter would contain articles describing the use of CDK on =
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> level. This means, it could be an explanation/display of a program usin=
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> too, e.g. a commercial program (CDK is LGPL afterall), so it might be a=
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> platform for sort of advertisement too. And I think advertisement for a=
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> program that uses CDK, is advertisement for CDK too.
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> That my intention. *But* I won't be able to do this by myself. So I am =
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> for people who can/will help me setup this newsletter, and people who=20
> want/can write articles for the newsletter.
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> So, if you are using CDK, and you like it, and you have time to write a=
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> article on using CDK in whatever way of about 1 A4, please contact me.
> Oh yes, they articles will be copyrighted FDL, thus there is the option=
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> invariant parts, for those who know the details ;)
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> If this things hits of, I'll setup a new mailling list specifically for=
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> sending articles etc.
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> Please let me know what you think of it...
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> Egon
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