[Fsatom] Greetings and announcement of CML mailings to FSATOM

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Greetings to all at FSATOM and readers of cml-discuss

Firstly many thanks for the FSATOM meeting at CECAM last week. I found it 
extremely stimulating and it was nice to make many new friends.

Members at the meeting were committed to the use of XML as an interchange 
format for compChem. I offered to post to this list and to cml-discuss with 
information about CML and this is the first of several postings.

Several groups have very recently asked about the use of  CML including 
GROMACS, eMinerals.org and CCL. Most of the openSource tools support CML 
(openbabel, joelib, cdk/jchempaint/jmol). I intend to post (once only) to 
all of these groups about CML/FSATOM.

I intend to post regular messages with a variety of threads such as DOM, 
forcefields, FORTRAN, etc. The intention is that the threads would be 
honoured so that there would be a constant thread for developers to refer 
to. The discussion would hopefully be guided by prototype code. The 
messages would not be crossposted to the other lists and we would expect 
postings just to the two lists.

I'd value comments on this. It would be useful to have a Wiki - I thought I 
heard someone say that FSATOM had or could have a Wiki?

I am confident that by focussing the discussion we can get rapid 
development of some of these areas and certainly refine the languages.

Best

Peter MR