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Hi Marius, A few suggestions on the tutorials: 1. The Installation Instructions were out of date and recently updated, thanks to Bruce Flynn. He split them into basic INSTALL and native code INSTALL. Your merged tutorial should use the updated instructions. 2. In section 10.1.7 of your merged tutorial "There is a diagram of a MathType tree structure at the start of Section 1.4." But that section is now numbered 10.1.4. I suggest keeping original section numbering in each tutorial to avoid needing to hunt down all of these section references. 3. There are other tutorials: Python Tutorial Collaboration Tutorial Event Tutorial You may want to add these to your merged tutorial. 4. The best way to add value to the existing VisAD documentation is to add new examples. I always learned new, complex APIs (e.g., X Windows a thousand years ago) via examples. There are more examples in: visad.aune visad.benjamin visad.paoloa visad.rabin Some of these are described in the Developer's Guide. I think serving the VisAD source code a on different server (e.g., kenai.com) poses the risk of creating multiple, inconsistent versions of VisAD. In VisAD we tried hard to create an object oriented design so that developers could address their special needs by extending classes rather than forking off inconsistent versions. I suggest that your kenai.com site should serve ancillary code to be used with VisAD, but for all classes that are part of the existing VisAD the kenai.com site should simply point to the existing VisAD server. Best wishes, Bill Hibbard -----Original Message----- Fro m: Marius Schmidt <mariuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: visad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Fri, Jul 2, 2010 8:02 am Subject: Re: [visad] Visad Tutorials and Documentation Hello again, VisAD community, I am trying to convert the available tutorials to a comprehensive tutorial guide as well. You will find an attached pre-version of it in this message. Beside this I just started an VisAD Fork project on Kenai.com, to provide the VisAD library in form of Eclipse Bundles. Kenai is a free open-source project hosting site started by SUN and is now driven by Oracle. Kenai infrastructure is getting ported over to the java.net domain at the moment and every project hosted on kenai.com will be available on java.net if the port is finished. Despite being useful for collaborative work, hosting on kenai may also help increase the awareness level of VisAD. If you'd like to take a look and hopefully want to join, you can find the project here: http://kenai.com/projects/visad. There is an integrated wiki, subversion repository and a forum, making it easier to contribute user written content like the UML diagrams I also would like to use in my still-in-development documenation conversion. Perhaps I'll soon be able to port some of the examples to run in an OSGi environment as well. best regards and looking forward to members :-), Marius _______________________________________________ visad mailing list visad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxFor list information, to unsubscribe, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/
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