<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I have a suggestion with the aim <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">of</span> trying to gather more momentum around the GROMACS project. This would require identifying as many as possible independent projects/topics related to GROMACS. Here I am referring to both scientific (be it theoretical, computer science, or computational) as well as software engineering, parallel programming and <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">code</span> tuning oriented. I think it should not be hard to come up with a dozen or more relatively independent topics and write up a short description <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">of</span> each. Now, the goal should be to post these projects on the website and advertise them everywhere: mailing lists (FB, G+, whatnot). When it comes to the Stockholm team and perhaps other academic core-devs, some of the projects could/should be flagged as possible masters/PhD projects and advertising them accordingly could lead to a lot of interest from great candidates. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>Additionally, the <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Google</span> <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Summer</span> <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">of</span> <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Code</span> (<a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013" target="_blank">http://www.<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">google</span>-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">google</span>/gsoc2013</a>) is coming up and I think that would be a *great* opportunity to get talented people to work on challenging software engineering tasks or even parallel programming aspects like GPU programming (e.g OpenCL?). If you have a look at GSOC2012 (<a href="http://goo.gl/8bh9v" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/8bh9v</a>) you'll see that there are plenty <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">of</span> scientific projects from quite high profile groups (e.g CERN, Open Bioinformatics Foundation, OpenCV).<br>
</div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">In the spirit </font><span class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">of</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"> making GROMACS more distributed, we invite developers (preferably core/experienced ones) to suggest topics as well as to volunteer in managing such projects. This way we could make sure to always have many small/medium/large projects available for interested people without having to manage all </font><span class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">of</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"> them ourselves (i.e Sthlm crew) in a centralized and monolithic manner.</font><br>
<br></div><div style>As a kick off I created a page on the wiki, I suggest we should put here both guidelines,project description, contact/responsible information, etc: <a href="http://www.gromacs.org/Projects_available_for_new_contributors">http://www.gromacs.org/Projects_available_for_new_contributors</a></div>
<div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cheers,<br clear="all"></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--<br>Szilárd</div></div>
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