Openmolecules.net and hosting

Hi,
I have developed a small runtime parser for cc / gaussian log files. Maybe it
could be a plugin or sth for avogadro sometime, but that’s really in the
future.
For now I was thinking about ‘hosting’ the project at openmolecules.net. It
says there that I should contact the advisory board, but I could not find an
email adress.
Can any of you tell me sth about whom to contact regarding this?
Or do you have any advice about hosting and project managing for a
programming-newbie, free-software-releasing virgin :wink: ?
Regards,
Xaver

I have developed a small runtime parser for cc / gaussian log files. Maybe it
could be a plugin or sth for avogadro sometime, but that’s really in the
future.

I guess my first question is why you want to create a new project, rather than improving on Open Babel (C++) or cclib (Python) which both have parsers for CC and Gaussian log files. If you improve Open Babel, Avogadro directly benefits.

So what does your parser do?

For now I was thinking about ‘hosting’ the project at openmolecules.net. It
says there that I should contact the advisory board, but I could not find an
email adress.

I’m the host for openmolecules.net. I’ll add a contact e-mail.

If you want to create a new project, I’d suggest either SourceForge or GitHub as places to start. I have no problem with giving you a subdomain at openmolecules.net – but I think I might want to know you a bit more first. (It’s part of my main hosting account and all users have full privileges.)

Hope that helps,
-Geoff

Hi,
thanks a lot, the ‘hosting’ vs. ‘being present on openmolecules’ issue was a
bit confusing to me.

I guess my first question is why you want to create a new project, rather
than improving on Open Babel (C++) or cclib (Python) which both have
parsers for CC and Gaussian log files. If you improve Open Babel, Avogadro
directly benefits.

My project is rather comparable to gausssum (frontend) than cclib (backend,
which I actually partly use). What it differs to gausssum is mainly 1) being
able to parse on, say, Gaussian runtime (by polling, of course) ,2) using Qt,
3) parsing more than what cclib is able to.
I’d like to tell you more, but I think this mailinglist is hardly the right
place for that. I’ll send you a seperate EMail.

Regards,
Xaver

Am Tuesday 15 December 2009 18:15:25 schrieb Geoffrey Hutchison:

I have developed a small runtime parser for cc / gaussian log files.
Maybe it could be a plugin or sth for avogadro sometime, but that’s
really in the future.

I guess my first question is why you want to create a new project, rather
than improving on Open Babel (C++) or cclib (Python) which both have
parsers for CC and Gaussian log files. If you improve Open Babel, Avogadro
directly benefits.

So what does your parser do?

For now I was thinking about ‘hosting’ the project at openmolecules.net.
It says there that I should contact the advisory board, but I could not
find an email adress.

I’m the host for openmolecules.net. I’ll add a contact e-mail.

If you want to create a new project, I’d suggest either SourceForge or
GitHub as places to start. I have no problem with giving you a subdomain at
openmolecules.net – but I think I might want to know you a bit more first.
(It’s part of my main hosting account and all users have full privileges.)

Hope that helps,
-Geoff

Don’t you like SourceForge.net hosting?
Not everybody likes it, but it will help you to promote software in Google
search results

I have no problem with Sourceforge. I thought ‘hosting’ meant here: Being
present on openmolecules.net. Like Avogadro, who is also part of
openmolecules but still actually hosts its files on SF.net
Or did I get that wrong?

BTW, do you mean sf.net is better for Google etc. than github or other
platforms? Or did you just mean ‘better than on your own homepage’?

Don’t you like SourceForge.net hosting?
Not everybody likes it, but it will help you to promote software in Google
search results
I have no problem with Sourceforge. I thought ‘hosting’ meant here: Being
present on openmolecules.net. Like Avogadro, who is also part of
openmolecules but still actually hosts its files on SF.net
Or did I get that wrong?
BTW, do you mean sf.net is better for Google etc. than github or other
platforms? Or did you just mean ‘better than on your own homepage’?

I’ve meant that having page on SF will greatly improve chances that your project will be the first in search on its name in Google (actually, if you have downloadable files, it will almost always be on top). But it isn’t convenient as web-hosting, if you want to use some CMS

Regards,
Konstantin