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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it was on the NA Digest issue that came yesterday.

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Anders

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:21:24AM -0800, Ridgway Scott wrote:
> Is someone submitting the announcement to NA-net?
>
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Anders Logg wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > As you all know, we have released 1.0 (!) after 10 years of hard
> > work.
> >
> > After a bit of testing and updating of the build on several platforms
> > (Dorsal), the release is being announced today.
> >
> > Please help out spreading the word about the release, and report any
> > typos/mistakes on the web pages. Below follows the announcement of
> > the release:
> >
> > We are pleased to announce the release of FEniCS 1.0. This is the
> > first stable and supported release of FEniCS.
> >
> > FEniCS is an integrated problem solving environment for partial
> > differential equations for both Python and C++ users. A high-level
> > expressive interface is combined with efficiency through automated and
> > seamless generation of highly efficient low level code (C++). An
> > integrated domain-specific form language allows finite element
> > variational problems to be expressed in near-mathematical notation as
> > part of a simulation program.
> >
> > Summary of features:
> > * An integrated domain-specific finite element form language
> > * Fully automated assembly of finite element variational forms
> > * Fully distributed simplex meshes in 1D, 2D, 3D
> > * High-performance linear algebra (based on PETSc and Trilinos)
> > * A large library of different finite elements
> > * Automated adaptive error control
> >
> > FEniCS is available for a multitude of platforms, with prebuilt
> > binaries for Debian/Ubuntu, Mac OS X and Windows. In addition, an
> > automated build script automates the building of FEniCS and its
> > dependencies (including PETSc and Trilinos) on a large collection of
> > (*nix) platforms.
> >
> > FEniCS is supported by extensive documentation, consisting of a
> > comprehensive tutorial, detailed API documentation and a range of
> > documented demos. In addition, the 700-page FEniCS book (Springer
> > 2011) documents the methodology behind the FEniCS Project and
> > highlights a number of applications based on FEniCS.
> >
> > For more information: http://fenicsproject.org/
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who contributed!
> >
> > Next up is the release of the book which, according to some recent
> > news from Springer, should be printed in the middle of January.
> >
>