FADS-IV

FADS stands for The Future of Astronomical Data-analysis Software. It is the somewhat flippant title of a special session at the yearly ADASS conference. In an open debate the participants try to figure out what the future of our trade will look like, and whether there is anything we can and/or should do about it. After all, our community is greatly admired for adopting the FITS standard, and perhaps there are more things that we can do collectively.

This year there is again an invitation (by Jan Noordam and Peter Teuben) to joins us at the BOF, but we are not setting up a prior email discussion, but instead a prior FADS-98 info web page with background reading material. Please help us with more relevant links for others to read.

References

FADS-I from the proceedings of ADASS-V, with an archive of the email discussion
FADS-II from the processing of ADASS-VI, with an archive of the email discussion. ( ADASS-VI)
FADS-III: curent email archive for the upcoming ADASS-VII
FADS-IV: at ADASS-98

Our old email-discussion info

to a preliminary email discussion prior to the actual session at the upcoming

To join the continued discussion, please send a mail message with "subscribe fads" (excluding the quotes) in the body to

                  majordomo@majordomo.cv.nrao.edu

You might also automatically receive a long digest of the current archive by sending a "index" to this address. The commands are based on the majordomo mailing list server.

You can then send your general list-wide messages to fads@majordomo.cv.nrao.edu.

Last modified: 4-sep-98 by teuben@astro.umd.edu