XafsAdmin discussion of Software Pages

BruceRavel extensively edited the Software page and created pages for all of the software packages for which he was able to find home pages after a searching on the ESRF site, Matt and Julie's collection, and good ol' Google.

Authors that could be located

• XDAP	Marius Vaarkamp
  EDA	Alexei Kuzmin
  Daresbury	Paul Stephenson
  EXCURV98	Paul Stephenson and Norman Binsted
  EXAFSPAK	Graham George
  LASE	Emmanuel Curis
  NPI XAID	Miguel San Rio
  SEDEM	Daniel Aberdam
  Viper and Xanda	Konstantin Klementiev
  feff	John Rehr
  winxas	Thorsten Ressler
  xfit	Richard Garrett
  xanadu	Hideto Sakane
  SixPack	Sam Webb
  exafs123	Rob Scarrow
  rsxap	Corwin Booth
  FitIt	Grigory Smolentsev and Alexander V. Soldatov
  FDMNES	Yves Joly

Of course, I also know where Matt, Andrea, and myself are. Pages were made for Ifeffit, GNXAS, and my stuff as well.

Here is the letter that was sent to all the authors that I was able to identify:

Hello,
I am writing to you today on behalf of an ad-hoc outreach subcommittee
of the International XAFS Society executive committee.  The IXS is in
the process of building a new website, in the form of a wiki, at
http://xafs.org.
I have volunteered to organize the section of the wiki with
information about theory and analysis software available to XAFS
practitioners.  Those receiving this email are the authors of packages
that I am familiar with or which are listed at the ESRF
software page (http://www.esrf.eu/computing/scientific/exafs/) or
compiled a few years back by Matt Newville and Julie Cross
(http://cars9.uchicago.edu/IXS-cgi/XAFS_Programs).
The advantage of the new, wiki-based approach to compiling information
about software packages is that maintenance of the site is
decentralized.  Each software author can maintain his or her own
page.
To get this project started, I have created a short page for each of
you.  Go to http://xafs.org/Software where you will find a link to a
brief description of your work.  We encourage you to create an account
for yourself at xafs.org (instructions are provided at
http://xafs.org/Software/NotesForAuthors) and edit the page for your
package as you see fit.
In fact, we hope that you will be interested in contributing content
to other sections of xafs.org as well.
Regards,
Bruce Ravel

Authors without homepages for their software

• CHOOCH	Gwydalf Evans
  EXAFS pour le mac	Alain Michaelowicz
  	Takatoshi Murata
  xafs	Markus Winterer
  autofit	Mark Chance
  ban	Tolek Tyliszczak
  EX.TR.A	Paolo Fornasini
  EXAFIT	K. R. Bauchspiess
  REX	rigaku, TAGUCHI Takeyoshi
  	Matthew Marcus

Here is the letter sent to authors whose email addresses I found at the ESRF and Matt/Julie sites, but for which an active homepage could not be found.

Hello,
I am writing to you today on behalf of an ad-hoc outreach subcommittee
of the International XAFS Society executive committee.  The IXS is in
the process of building a new website, in the form of a wiki, at
http://xafs.org.
I have volunteered to organize the section of the wiki with
information about theory and analysis software available to XAFS
practitioners.  Those receiving this email are the authors of packages
that are listed either at the ESRF software page
   http://www.esrf.eu/computing/scientific/exafs/
or compiled a few years back by Matt Newville and Julie Cross
   http://cars9.uchicago.edu/IXS-cgi/XAFS_Programs
but for which I was unable to find a homepage after a cursory search
using Google.  Consequently, I do not know the current status of your
work or if you continue to develop it.  If you do, I would like to
invite you to participate in this project at xafs.org.
The advantage of the new, wiki-based approach to compiling information
about software packages is that maintenance of the site is
decentralized.  Each software author can maintain his or her own
page.
If you are interested in creating a page describing your software
efforts, you are encouraged to go to http://xafs.org and create a user
account for yourself (see http://xafs.org/HowToUseThisWiki for
instructions).
Once you have created an account for yourself, you may go to the
Software page at http://xafs.org/Software and create a page to
describe your software package.  Instructions for how to do so are at
http://xafs.org/Software/NotesForAuthors.
In fact, we hope that you will be interested in contributing content
to other sections of xafs.org as well.
Regards,
Bruce Ravel

Outstanding issues

I have been having trouble all weekend connecting to some parts of Europe from my home here in Chicago. Consequently, I have been unable to obtain information about the following important packages:

• FDMNES (After not being able to connect to the FDMNES site all weekend, I finally managed. I filled in the template and sent mail to Yves.)

• MXAN
• Continuum

If any of you can contact their authors or send me links to pages with information, that would be very helpful.

I made a page for Cerius2, the expensive commercial product that uses EXCURVE. However, there is not a contact email address on their web site. There is an enquiryu form, which I will fill out later this morning.