Just FYI, NIMBioS is in the process of resuming their efforts to port  
NEAD to their environment. If this is something that others want to  
join, I'd be happy to push for an effort here to put the code up on a  
public repository, for example github, which would allow others to  
fork or clone and add their own customizations, for which we could  
then periodically discuss whether they are worth being brought back  
into a "master repo".

When we started to develop NEAD, that was the one piece of software we  
thought would for sure never be interesting to anyone else, so there  
may passwords and stuff inadvertently committed in places when they  
shouldn't be. So before this goes up on a public repo we better go  
through the code to weed out such pieces. But we run a private git  
server too, so perhaps that's a possibility too. Right now it's on a  
private svn server, and thus not very amenable to sharing some but not  
all development.

	-hilmar

On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Mike Smorul wrote:

> Hi all,
> It looks like we're finally getting things rolling on this end and  
> one of the first thing that pops up is the need for a nead like  
> application to manage administrative tasks bringing in post-docs,  
> personnel, and managing working-groups. With the horror story of  
> trying to port nead to another center still fresh in my mind, what  
> would you all do different if given the opportunity?
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
>

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