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<p>A heads up to folks interested in ROOT development from Graham
Heyes.</p>
<p>Subsequent to this email, Bob Michaels has agreed to coordinate a
meeting with Axel to discuss JLab/ROOT-team communication. At this
point having a local users' group is still under discussion.<br>
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<td>Getting to the ROOT of things...</td>
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<td>Tue, 9 Oct 2018 09:19:33 -0400</td>
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<td>Graham Heyes <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:heyes@jlab.org"><heyes@jlab.org></a></td>
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<td>Raffaella De Vita <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Raffaella.Devita@ge.infn.it"><Raffaella.Devita@ge.infn.it></a>,
Brad Sawatzky <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:brads@jlab.org"><brads@jlab.org></a>, Ole Hansen
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ole@jlab.org"><ole@jlab.org></a>, Stephen A. Wood
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:saw@jlab.org"><saw@jlab.org></a>, Ito Mark <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marki@jlab.org"><marki@jlab.org></a>,
David Lawrence <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:davidl@jlab.org"><davidl@jlab.org></a>, Maurizio Ungaro
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ungaro@jlab.org"><ungaro@jlab.org></a>, Robert Michaels
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Hi Everyone,<br>
Amber has been chatting more with Axel Naumann (CERN) who gave the
computing roundtable presentation on “The Future of ROOT”. He
acknowledges that the ROOT developers have been overly LHC centric
and have somewhat failed to reach out to the wider community,
particularly NP. He would like to fix that and suggested that he
could listen in to any meetings of the JLab ROOT users community.
As far as I know no such formal (or even informal) group or
meetings exists. This seems like a great opportunity for us to at
least attempt to influence the future course of the ROOT
developers. Can you pleas comment on whether forming a ROOT user’s
group at the lab would be useful and, at minimum, who would be a
natural fit or volunteer to take the lead with the discussion with
Axel (not me since I don’t use ROOT). I notice that Bob Michaels
currently maintains ROOT.<br>
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Any ideas or discussion gratefully accepted.<br>
Regards,<br>
Graham<br>
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