From: Christoph S. <c.s...@un...> - 2003-10-15 08:32:10
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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 --=20 Dr. Christoph Steinbeck (e-mail: c.s...@un...) Groupleader Junior Research Group for Applied Bioinformatics Cologne University BioInformatics Center (http://www.cubic.uni-koeln.de) Z=FClpicher Str. 47, 50674 Cologne Tel: +49(0)221-470-7426 Fax: +49 (0) 221-470-7786 What is man but that lofty spirit - that sense of enterprise. ... Kirk, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.. E.L. Willighagen wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > CDK is getting larger and more used every day. Even though I have a pre= tty=20 > good overview of what is going on with the CDK, it might be time to sta= rt a > three-monthual newsletter with short articles on CDK internals, use and= maybe=20 > small tutorials. Aimed mainly at users, but very interesting to develop= ers=20 > too, because it is no longer feasible to understand the whole of CDK. >=20 > Thus, I would like to start a newsletter. A good example is the 'R News= '=20 > newsletter http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/, or the R Project which= makes=20 > an OpenSource statistical software package (very good btw, though graph= ics > are not as good as MatLab yet). >=20 > Such a news letter would contain articles describing the use of CDK on = any=20 > level. This means, it could be an explanation/display of a program usin= g CDK=20 > too, e.g. a commercial program (CDK is LGPL afterall), so it might be a= nice=20 > platform for sort of advertisement too. And I think advertisement for a= =20 > program that uses CDK, is advertisement for CDK too. >=20 > That my intention. *But* I won't be able to do this by myself. So I am = looking=20 > for people who can/will help me setup this newsletter, and people who=20 > want/can write articles for the newsletter. >=20 > So, if you are using CDK, and you like it, and you have time to write a= short=20 > 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= of=20 > invariant parts, for those who know the details ;) >=20 > If this things hits of, I'll setup a new mailling list specifically for= =20 > sending articles etc. >=20 > Please let me know what you think of it... >=20 > Egon >=20 |