[ale] ALE-NW meeting...

[Will]

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
> 
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> Think about it...
> 
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