> > Nothing would be better than open source flow software. GPLed > flow software would expidite innovation for data analysis and acquisition. > > Karl G. Parato > I have an extenstive list of libraries that I'd be happy to contribute to an open source project. Just let me know where you want the files. I'm also planning to take a crack at implementing the API developed by the ISAC Data Standards committee. That will be open source, so anyone who wants to volunteer to work on that with us, I'd love the help. In the longer term, I don't think the project should be data analysis or acquisition. It should be data management. While you have a half dozen options for programs to draw your gates, there is not much available to make it easy to save and access the data generated by the instrument. If we had a good server system where all the data was secure, backed up and accessible then we would have the foundation on which to build a whole new set of analysis tools. Historically, open source projects work best in the Linux world. That's partly self-fulfilling (open source projects eat their parents) and partly because servers are easier to distribute responsibility than are user interfaces. If there were an "Apache for flow" server, you could create all sorts of home brew analysis tools just by adding Javascripts to your browser pages. That would expedite innovation. More importantly, it would jump the users forward into an age of "location independence". Users could access their data from anywhere on the Internet, and there'd be no need for all the Zip drives consumed by flow users. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------ Adam Treister Tree Star, Inc. ph: 800-366-6045 intl: 1-650-591-2854 fax: 1-650-508-9186 adam@treestar.com www.treestar.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ >
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