Welcome to the Software Forum Wiki of 
Purpose of this Page
To coordinate studies of software issues relevant to the European radio astronomical facilities and
to archive the related email discussions and study documents.The Software Forum was wound up mid-2006. Some budget and responsibilities were transferred to ALBUS.
This page is no longer being updated and is kept for reference.
The final, 2006 annual report for the Software Forum is here SoftwareForumAnnualReport2006.ps
The Software Forum Groups
Steering Committee
Group Pages
Advanced Calibration and Imaging
Cormac Reynolds
ALBUS Support, User Requirements, Software Package Evaluation
John Conway
Archives and Virtual Observatories
Anita Richards
Parallelization
Garrelt Mellema
Wide-Band/Wide-Field Imaging
Tom Muxlow
Group Membership
SoftwareForumMembers
To join, email the group steering committee member (email addresses are in SoftwareForumMembers).
First Software Forum Meeting
Jodrell Bank, March 1-3, 2005
Topics: Coding platform, review existing projects, non-isoplanatic patch effects, dynamic range limits, parallel processing, VO
More Details: FirstSoftwareForumMeeting
Proceedings: ProceedingsFirstSoftwareForumMeeting
Software Forum Email Exploder
Archive of emails is here: SoftwareForumEmailArchive
Email to softwareforum@radionet-eu.org will reach all of the SoftwareForumMembers.
This exploder is the main method of communication in the groups.
To subscribe, send to majordomo@astron.nl with 'subscribe softwareforum' in the message
To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@astron.nl with 'unsubscribe softwareforum' in the message.
How to Participate in this Wiki
Edit Wiki pages:
Everyone can edit Wiki pages with little effort and everyone is invited to do so. Of course not all Wiki pages are editable for everyone, but the ones that are should be used intensively. Our webmaster Alastair Gunn (agg@jb.man.ac.uk) has written brief and very useful Wiki Instructions to use and edit Radio Net Wiki. These pages are maintained by the SoftwareForumGroup.Register as a Wiki User
If you're not already in this list ( SoftwareForumGroup ) of users who have created an account on the Wiki, click on the 'UserPreferences' in the top right corner and create a user name. Send an email to Alan Roy (aroy@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de) letting him know your name and he will add you to the SoftwareForumGroup and you will then be able to edit the group pages.
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