[Salstat-developers] Salstat Rejuvenation Project

[Mark L. <mli...@us...>]

Hello to all in the Salstat Developers List!

This message will doubtless come as a surprise bur no, this
is not a Spam message but a message to 
tell you of some exciting (well, I think it is!) news for
the Salstat Project.

Because of Alan's work and personal commitments, he does not
have time at present to work on 
Salstat. I am in the process of teaching myself Python /
wxPython and have decided to take Salstat as 
my learning project. I have discussed this with Alan, and I
have been added as co-Administrator for 
the project with the possibility I may take over the project
in the future somewhere.

My initial plans are to bring Salstat uptodate with the
current Python 2.5 and wxWidgets / wxPython 
2.8 which are in Release Candidate stage and aiming to be
released on 11 December 2006 (in time to 
go into Mac OS/X 10.5 Leopard). I will also be making it
work with the current SciPy Numeric module 
and anything else that needs to be updated. I aim to do this
as soon as I can but definitely before the 
end of February (No, I don't think it will take nearly that
long) as that is when I go back to Uni. At that 
point, I aim to do a release.

Post release, I want to start adding functionality and I am
open to suggestions from all of you. I have 
not started thinking what I wish to add but my general plan
is to make it something that can be used 
at an undergraduate course level of statistics (I am a
mature age, part time Bachelor of Information 
Technology student, about half way through, majoring in
Bioinformatics.)

I have home access to a Mac Pro with OS/X 10.4.8, Win XP Pro
on my Laptop, and Gentoo and Ubuntu 
Linux on other machines.

I look forward to any ideas and suggestions you all have.
There is probably no point in multiple of us 
doing the rejuvenation step but after that, I am open to
anyone wanting to contribute :-)

I have started fixing some of the broken links on the
website and will do more as time permits.

Cheers and tell me what you would like to see in Salstat in
the future! :-D

MarkL