COMPCOMM: Issues discussed in Geneva

[Lachlan Cranswick <l.m.d.cranswick@dl.ac.uk>]

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Issues discussed and actions requiring decisions in Geneva 
(please correct if things missing or have imagined anything):

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Computing School for Florence IUCr 2005.
Actioned to whom?  The following IUCr 2005 contact
may be able to assist with possible venues:
   Andrea Lenco  - Scientific Secretariat for Florence IUCr 2005

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Get suggestions for sessions for Florence IUCr 2005
   pass on to Ton Spek.
    - possibility for some combined CIF and Compcomm symposia

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First CompComm Newsletter on PDF/Internet within end of November 2002
(analogous to the IUCr Commission on Powder Diffraction newsletter)  - 
   actioned to Lachlan Cranswick as first editor.  Will be 100% internet
   so will not cost anything except time to prepare.

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Software Patents - Computing Commission should have a policy and statement
  saying that Software Patents are "evil" - or definitely "not a good thing"
   for science and crystallography.
   actioned to Vincent Favre Nicolin
    (Vincent has done a first draft and we are going to bounce
    versions to each-other before submitting to the List for 
    review)

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Suggestion that Armel Le Bail's "Software Museum" should be given 
some type of IUCr Computing Commission (official or pseudo-official)
recognition as a "good thing" and something to be encouraged.

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Something not discussed but I would like to add in:

For the Newsletter and new webpage - open competition to 
design the IUCr Computing Commission Logo?  

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Lachlan M. D. Cranswick

Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14)
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