On jobs well done...

[Benedikt Stefansson]

Y'all,

I've been meaning to send out this message for a couple of weeks - in
appreciation of the excellent job that the Swarm team did on release
1.2. The Swarm website has improved greatly and the new
manual/documentation is an impressive piece of work - pretty much what
we have all been hoping for. If you haven't checked it out yet - have a
look:

http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/swarmdocs/html/set/set.html

This must have taken a Herculean effort - in addition to the kernel &
library programming and user support that goes on day by day. Many
thanks.

I also want to thank Paul Johnson for his insanely great initiative,
which is the SwarmFAQ (just in case, here is the URL):

 http://valinux.pols.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq.html

GNU type projects like Swarm live and die by the level of user support
of other users. The Swarm community still relies, perhaps to heavily, on
the expertise of essentially one person at Santa Fe to solve anything
from installation problems to kernel bugs, - which means that Paul's
contribution carries a tremendous weight. This is after all a SFI thing
- it's all about increasing returns to scale...

Best regards,
-Benedikt

PS. It may seem silly to some veterans on the list that I feel the need
to point out the URLs for the docs and Paul's FAQ, but it always amazes
me how many posters on the list don't seem to have downloaded the docs
or checked out the FAQ.

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Benedikt Stefansson                 address@hidden
Department of Economics, UCLA       Fax. (310) 825-9528
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477          Tel. (310) 825-1777





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