On Wednesday 26 November 2003 02:49 pm, Matt Newville wrote:
Such things are certainly possible: I think I could set something like this on our web server. If so, I'd hope to dedicate it to XAFS in general rather than just Athena/Artemis/Ifeffit. It might be nice to coordinate this with the International XAFS Society.
Is this worth doing?? Would people take advantage of it?
A wiki is definately an excellent tool for documentation. I think a site using Slash (the engine used by slashdot.org and other sites) or some similar discussion and content management system would be an excellent idea and could serve most every function currently served by the IXS, but in a much more dynamic and interactive fashion. Slash can have many topics, so one could imagine WinXAS and GNXAS topics as well as Ifeffit, Feff, and general XAS topics. It's configurable for the user, so each person can look at as many or as few topics as he finds interesting. Content can be presented and dicussions can be carried out. It would really be quite a remarkable resource for the XAS community. Of course, I think it would be nice if someone other than Matt or I volunteered to set up and administer a discussion and content management system ...... B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 222 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 5947 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 1697 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/