Avogadro 1.0.3 Released
I am pleased to be able to announce the availability of Avogadro1.0.3! What happened to Avogadro 1.0.2 I hear you ask...shortly after tagging Michael reported an issue with i18n building/installations....
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Talking at OSCON 2011 about Open Science
I am currently on a plane bound for Portland, Oregon enjoying the in-plane wi-fi. Will Schroeder, Brian Wylie and I will be talking about "Practicing Open Science" on Friday in the government track. I...
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Talking About Open Source Visualization of Scientific Data at the Desktop Summit
I have begun my journey to the Desktop Summit, making the flight over from the US to Manchester yesterday. A short stay in Sheffield, and catch up with family before heading out to get my flight to...
View ArticleConferences: Talking Open Science at OSCON, Desktop Summit and Chemical...
Over the last two months I have had one of my most hectic travel schedules ever. It started withOSCON, and a panel discussion about "Practicing Open Science". This one was a bit of a surprise, as Bill...
View ArticleReflections on 2011: Open Source, Open Science and Open Chemistry
It has been so long since I uttered a word here, 2011 was certainly a busy year for me and I hope to ensure I dedicate more time telling people about what I am up to in 2012. In preparation for that I...
View ArticleLeap Day: Never Enough Time
What a busy year it has been so far, a leap day hardly seems enough to help me catch up! I started off the year with a meeting in Cambridge, England on Semantic Physical Science which was hosted by...
View ArticleOpen Science, Open Access and Open Source
I have been thinking this over for quite a while, and have written this post several times over in my mind. As an undergraduate student I remember admiring scientists and imagining how amazing it must...
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Open Chemistry, VTK and ParaViewWeb
Last year David Lonie, now a new Kitware employee, worked on a Google Summer of Code project to add better support for chemical structure visualization to VTK. More recently, Kyle Lutz added...
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The Roller Coaster of 2012
It has been a long time since I wrote anything on here, I am still alive and kicking! 2012 was another roller coaster of a year, with many good and bad things happening. Louise and I got our green...
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Avogadro Paper Published Open Access
In January of last year I was invited to attend the Semantic Physical Science Workshop in Cambridge, England. That was a great meeting where I met like-minded scientists and developers working on...
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FOSDEM: Open Science and Open Chemistry
I will be talking about the Open Chemistry Project at FOSDEM this year in the FOSS for scientists devroom at 12:30pm on Saturday. I will discuss the development of a suite of tools for computational...
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Tour of Druthers During Saratoga Beer Week
Last week, during Saratoga Beer Week, a small group of intrepid colleagues ventured up to Saratoga Springs to revisit Druthers, a local brew pub that opened last year. On Thursday they were offering...
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First Open Chemistry Beta Release
We are pleased to announce the first beta release of the Open Chemistry suite of cross platform, open-source, BSD-licensed tools and libraries - Avogadro 2, MoleQueue and MongoChem. They are being...
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Using VTK's Image Regression Tests in Avogadro 2
One of the really nice features of VTK's testing framework is the use of image-based regression tests. These allow developers to write tests that result in a final image, which can be recorded and...
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New Input Generator Framework in Avogadro 2
Avogadro 1.x had quite a large number of input generators that came from very humble beginnings. They were designed to be easy to write, and to give a simple path from a structure in Avogadro to...
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