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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 05:17:31PM +0200, Johan Hoffman wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:54:33PM +0200, Johan Hoffman wrote:
> >> > Hello fellow FEniCS hackers,
> >> >
> >> > We're currently considering launching a new FEniCS project called
> >> >
> >> > 'FEniCS-Apps'
> >> >
> >> > The idea of this project would be to establish a community of
> >> > developers that use FEniCS software for larger applications. These
> >> > applications would then be hosted as individual sub-projects under
> >> > 'FEniCS-Apps'. The aim is to enable developers to share code, ideas
> >> > and best practices when using other FEniCS projects like FFC and
> >> > DOLFIN.
> >> >
> >> > Two examples of projects that could be hosted by 'FEniCS-Apps', that
> >> > we have developed, are:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > dolfin-grade2:  a library for solving non-Newtonian fluid problems
> >> > using the grade-two fluid model
> >> >
> >> > fenics-plasticity:  a library that implements different plastic models
> >> > and a framework for solving problems using these models.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > We have set up a few things to show how our idea would work, that you
> >> > might check out.
> >> >
> >> > * a page on the wiki (http://www.fenics.org/wiki/FEniCS_Apps)
> >> > * a hg repository (http://www.fenics.org/apps/)
> >> > * a mailing list (http://fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics-apps)
> >> >
> >> > Please let us know your opinion on the matter and any suggestions you
> >> may
> >> > have.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> >
> >> > Andy R. Terrel
> >> > Kristian B. Ølgaard
> >>
> >> Andy and Kristian,
> >>
> >> I think this is a good idea, which has previously been discussed at this
> >> list. At that time I believe the main hesitation was connected to have
> >> someone volunteer to administrate such a project.
> >
> > I also think this looks good!
> >
> >> I think it is good to have a fenics-forum for application oriented
> >> developers that can interact with the developers of the basic tools.
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >> Johan
> >
> > Should Unicorn be moved into FEniCS Apps? Is it still active?
> 
> No, this is a separate project, with a different goal.

ok, so how is it different?

> Unicorn is very active, at least in research and education at KTH. But to
> have a matching release of DOLFIN we have decided to wait with the next
> fenics.org release until our new developments on parallel adaptivity is
> incorporated into DOLFIN (which is ongoing work which can be followed at
> dolfin-dev).

ok. I was just looking at the hg repository for Unicorn and it hasn't
been updated for a while.

I'm looking forward to the parallelization.

-- 
Anders

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