[ale] ALE-NW meeting...

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I would LOVE to be apart of an install fest!  Let me know if there is
anything I can do to help!

-Rob
http://CogginsNet.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Will" <webmaster at tinyminds.org>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] ALE-NW meeting...


> Sorry to hear about the Leukemia. I hope things go ok with whatever
> method of treatment she decides on.
>
> I heard about last nights meeting, and unfortunately I was not able to
> attend due to a meeting at church. May is going to be the first meeting
> I am available for, and I hope to be there.
>
> I wanted to talk with the members of ALE-NW about the possibility of an
> installfest at KSU sometime this summer. Tinyminds.org would be very
> interested in co-sponsoring this event.
>
> If you guys think this is something that the ALE would like to do, let
> me know.
>
> Mark
> http://www.tinyminds.org
> (And thanks to everyone who visits the site!)
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 12:27, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Dow Hurst wrote:
> > > I am sorry I couldn't come either.  We found out that one of my wife's
> > > aunt's has leukemia yesterday.  I was wondering if any refreshments
were
> > > brought or provided?  If not, I apologize for not taking care of that.
> > > However, it is nice to see that the meeting went well without either
> > > Geoffrey or myself in attendance.  I think we have a critical mass
> > > achieved and can focus on just providing quality talks on a monthly
basis.
> >
> > Sorry to hear of the family crisis, thoughts and prayers to you, your
> > wife and her aunt.
> >
> > Agreed, thanks again to Fulton for picking up my dropped pieces.  Dow
> > and I talked about 1 hour before the meeting and I knew he couldn't make
> > it, but at that time was still planning on being there.
> >
> > >
> > > On the Linux side of things:
> > > I have the chemistry modelling software Macromodel for
> > > www.schrodinger.com running on my SuSE box at home.  It takes
advantage
> > > of the OpenGL acceleration and looks absolutely beautiful.  I don't
need
> > > an SGI anymore!  You can model proteins, nucleotides, and small
organics
> > > in this software.  I have a permanent license so might could demo this
> > > sometime at a meeting.
> >
> > Cool, I'm thinking of next month?  If it's not a full meetings worth, we
> > got a couple of folks who have offered to do mini-presentations, we
> > could leverage.  Let me know if you're ready?? :)
> >
> > >
> > > Also, the modelling software from www.wavefun.com called Spartan is
also
> > > running in the same way and looks great.  This software is used to do
> > > many different types of calculations on molecules such as abinitio,
> > > semi-empirical, and molecular mechanics.  It is used alot in
University
> > > level organic chemistry courses on Win9x machines and in academic
> > > research on Unix machines.  The Spartan Linux version came out last
year
> > > and I just got a 3 month demo license.
> > >
> > > Macromodel is about $1000 per workstation or $3000 per departmental
> > > license for education.
> > > Spartan is about $1500 per workstation and multiple licenses gain
> > > discounts but $1500 is an educational license.
> > >
> > > This is mainstream chemistry modelling software with Linux versions
that
> > > run as well as the high end Unix workstation versions.  A
pharmaceutical
> > > company would pay 10 times this much per license and glady do it to
have
> > > the functionality.  It is great to finally see Linux breaking into
this
> > > market where either Unix or Windows dominated.  People would have a
SGI
> > > and a Windows PC in their office while now they only need a Linux
based PC.
> > > Dow
> > >
> > >
> > > Geoffrey wrote:
> > >
> > >> Well, a last minute mini-crisis prevented me from attending the
> > >> meeting last night.  I'd like to get feedback on how it went.
> > >>
> > >> How many folks showed?  How'd it go?
> > >>
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Until later: Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
> >
> > The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
> > Think about it...
> >
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