[Planetlab-tools] Kicking off the Planetlab tools mail list

[Adams, R. <rob...@in...>]

By way of introduction, I am Robert Adams and I am a member of the Planetlab
team (up in Oregon) and I met most of you at the Planetlab meeting on
Boston.  My interest is the easy use and management of Planetlab.  I have
written a set of PERL scripts to deploy and control a service on Planetlab
(see the contribution page).  It was built for us to create an
administration slice for Planetlab.

The 'tools' mailing list is for us to share and distribute tools people have
developed to distribute, manage and control Planetlab applications and
services.  Additionally, this is the forum to discuss the types of tools
that would be nice to have.  We should see discussions on:

* tools for application/service distribution (push service onto Planetlab,
...)
* libraries for development of services (distributed store discovery, ...)
* libraries for access to PlanetLab services and infrastructure (get list of
nodes, ...)

and any other topics that make the creation of Planetlab applications
easier.

If there are tools you would like see, make a suggestion here in this list.
We have two contributions in the Planetlab contribution list
(http://www.planet-lab.org/php/contrib/contrib.php).  If anyone has tools
they are using, please contribute them using the contribution submission
page.

	Robert Adams
	mailto:Rob...@in...
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	2111 NE 25th Ave
	Hillsboro, OR   97124    USA
	phone: +1.503.264.2682; cell: +1.503.781.9914; FAX: +1.503.264.1578