[Developers] Save the date - June 20 - 23, 2011

[John Sibert]

Hi Hans,
Good suggestion. I don't know what alternative documentation tools might 
be available (other than TeX). Doxygen is pretty extensible and can be 
used to build entire websites. There are examples on 
http://www.doxygen.org/index.html. The "Main Page " on the ADMB api dox 
is a file specifically created to contain the text you see as well as 
the description sections of the modules on the "Modules" tab. Also some 
of the capabilities of Doxygen have not been activated such as graphical 
representation of class hierarchies.

In short, if we know what we wanted to include in the "big picture" we 
could probably do it pretty easily. So, the challenge is to know exactly 
what to include. Any ideas anyone?
John

On 02/04/2011 05:06 AM, Hans Julius Skaug wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> One suggestion for an agenda point:
> - is there a need for higher (than Doxygen) level documentation?
>
> The background is that it is difficult to see the big picture (design principles)
> from the code/doxygen. I do not know if a similar level
> of docs exists in other software projects.
>
> On the other hand, I am aware that that much work remains on
> the doxygen stuff, so it may not be a good idea to start talking
> about other types of documentation.
>
> Hans
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at admb-project.org
>> [mailto:users-bounces at admb-project.org] On Behalf Of John Sibert
>> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 6:55 PM
>> To: developers at admb-project.org; users at admb-project.org
>> Subject: [ADMB Users] Save the date - June 20 - 23, 2011
>>
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> Apologies for duplicate posting.
>>
>> I'm pleased to announced that we have finally been able to
>> organize our
>> first ADMB Developers' Workshop. It will be held at the
>> National Center
>> for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara,
>> California, June
>> 20 - 23, 2011. We also have limited funding available to assist with
>> travel and participation.
>>
>> At this point, the workshop agenda and format are completely
>> open. Some
>> of the topics that have been suggested include writing adjoint code,
>> parallelization, R interfaces, installation packages, ... .
>> Others have
>> suggested breaking into small groups to implement specific
>> features (but
>> which ones).
>>
>> So my purpose in writing to invite you to participate, to solicit
>> suggestions for workshop topics, and to find the names of others who
>> might make a substantive contribution to the proceedings.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John
>>

-- 
John Sibert
Emeritus Researcher, SOEST
University of Hawaii at Manoa

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