[Joelib-help] The Blue Obelisk group

[Joerg K. W. <we...@in...>]

Hi all,

as some of us now already, we have had the first non-virtual meeting of 
the most relevant cheminformatics open-source projects, being more exact 
some of their administrators/developers.

BTW, the official name for this group is 'The Blue Obelisk', because we 
have meet at the blue obelisk at the horten plaza in San Diego, California.
So, Peter called the open-source community related to cheminformatics 
the 'The Blue Obelisk'-movement and details can be found in his original 
message below.

And as usuall for our open-source group ... send all comments and critic 
directly to a mailing-list of your choice :-)

Kind regards, Joerg

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Peters original message:
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Greetings,
On Monday night some of use met at the blue obelisk in Horton Plaza, San
Diego. There was some confusion as Geoff went to the Public Blue Obelisk
(shown in picture) while the others went to the Lesser Public Blue Obelisk.
This is some fragmentary historical record, but as PM-R had to consume
Christoph's beer not all has been captured.
http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/presentations/acs2005/
(see blueobelisk under menu)

I drafted the following words which everyone seemed happy with:
"

The Blue Obelisk

A diverse Internet group who promote re-usable chemistry

     * Open: Access, Data, Standards, Source
     * consistent and complementary
     * non-divisive and fun
Components include
     * CDK
     * JChempaint
     * Jmol
     * JOELib
     * JUMBO
     * NMRShiftDB
     * Octet
     * Openbabel
     * QSAR
     * WWMM
"
and announced this at the meeting. We can make of it what we like  :-)  I
shall start adding an obelisk logo of some sort to some of our offerings.
There is no commitment but I think that by providing each other with web
services, jars, etc. we should provide a rich and consistent approach.

There is no formal membership but it's not primarily a list of Open source
chemistry - it's people working together on the Internet to make sure their
systems work together. - if anyone else has Open resources that
interoperate with some of the above and provide complementary functionality
feel free to post to one of the lists.

P.

this mail re-usable under CreativeCommons

Peter Murray-Rust
Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics
Chemistry Department, Cambridge University
Lensfield Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1EW, UK
Tel: +44-1223-763069 Fax: +44 1223 763076

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Center of Bioinformatics Tuebingen (ZBIT)
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