E-mail david.watkin@chem.ox.ac.uk

Monday 29 November, 1999

Prof Carmelo Giacovazzo

CNR IRMEC Bari

Dipartmento Geomineralogico

Via Orabona 4

I-70125 BARI, Italy

Dear Prof Giacovazzo,

This summer I was elected Chairman of the IUCr Computing Commission, and I write to you to seek your support for setting up an ECA Computing Sig. I have been in E-mail contact with many active crystallographic programmers, and am sure that there is strong support for such a 'sig'.

The rules for setting up a sig require that we:

a: Find 4 Proponents, who must be council members.

b: Find 2 or more Promoters.

Lachlan Cranswick

Sacha Urzhumtsev

c: Provide a list of Founder Members.

These include:

d: Provide a document setting out the aims of the sig.

Aims of the Crystallographic Computing SIG

1 Organising microsymposia at every ECM

2 Participating at other meetings and micro-symposia.

3 Participating at Schools

5 Seeking opportunity to introduce young crystallographers to software development.

7 Providing support and assistance to each other.

e: Set out the Preliminary Rules for the sig.

I propose the following:

1 The Name shall be:

' Crystallographic Computing Special Interest Group'

2 The Initial Officers shall be:

Davide Viterbo - Acting Chairman

David Watkin - Acting IUCr Computing Commission Representative

A N Other - Acting Secretary (to be chosen by Viterbo)

Make up of Committee

Chairman

Vice-Chairman

Secretary

Number of Ordinary Members

Period in Office of Officers

Election of Officers

Activities of SIG

Microsymposia at ECMs

Web pages

Software presentations and evaluation

Establishing a software competition and prize for 'young' crystallographers.

Software 'Fairs'

f. Plans for first meeting.

I hope you can agree that all the rules have been satisfied, and that you can proceed with the formal creation of the SIG.

Yours sincerely

copy to:

Lachlan Cranswick

Sacha Urzhumtsev

David Watkin

From Margareta.Neuburger-Zehnder@unibas.ch Tue Nov 9 08:41:09 1999

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:05:05 +0200

From: Margareta Neuburger-Zehnder <Margareta.Neuburger-Zehnder@unibas.ch>

To: David Watkin <david.watkin@chemistry.oxford.ac.uk>

Subject: Re: Proposed Computing Special Interest Group

Dear David,

I am enthusiastic about setting up an ECA Computing Special Interest Group

(SIG) for the following reason:

Europe has a strong tradition of designing and developing crystallographic

software. As the design of software becomes more complex to meet new

challenges, it is important that developers and writers in Europe work

together and benefit from each others experience. A Special Interest Group

will help to mate this possible, so I strongly support the proposal.

I wish you a good start.

Sincerely yours

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Prof. Dr. Margareta Zehnder ZEHNDER@ubaclu.unibas.ch

Institut fuer anorganische Chemie, Spitalstr. 51, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland

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From allen@ccdc.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 9 08:39:12 1999

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:31:49 +0100 (BST)

From: Frank Allen <allen@ccdc.cam.ac.uk>

To: david.watkin@chemistry.oxford.ac.uk

Subject: Re: Proposed Computing Special Interest Group

Dear David

I fully support the creation of the ECA SIG you have indicated. Since the

rules state you need the support of 4 Council Members, count me well and

truly IN. You should have no trouble with others either.

Sincerely

Frank

From hasek@imc.cas.cz Tue Nov 9 08:41:50 1999

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 17:40:05 +0200

From: hasek <hasek@imc.cas.cz>

To: David Watkin <david.watkin@chemistry.oxford.ac.uk>

Subject: Re: Support and proposals to CCSIG

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Subject: SIG for Crystallographic Computing of ECA (CCSIG)

This is my letter to support setting up the SIG for Crystallographic Computing

during the ECM-19 in Nancy and my offer to help with any problems

that I should be able to understand.

I am very glad to hear about this new SIG. I'd like to stress that

CCSIG seems to be of high importance in comparison with others

namely because it joins very specialized people with their own interests,

however, scattered over all the crystallography. The closer cooperation

between programmers could help with better compatibility between

the programs and ,as result, to make them more user friendly.

It is really benefit for all the crystallographic community.

With best regards

Jindrich Hasek

From lecomte@lcm3b.u-nancy.fr Tue Nov 9 08:51:36 1999

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 08:19:20 +0000

From: Claude LECOMTE <lecomte@lcm3b.u-nancy.fr>

To: David Watkin <david.watkin@chemistry.oxford.ac.uk>

Cc: lecomte@lcm3b.u-nancy.fr

Subject: Re: Proposed Computing Special Interest Group

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Dear David,

Just a few phrases to tell you that I strongly support the SIG related to

computing Crystallography; Europe has a lot of researchers very active in

this field and almost all softwares available come from european labs .

This community of collegues has to put their work and ideas together ,and a

SIG is the best way to coordinate that

Sincerely

Claude

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Prof Claude Lecomte

LCM3B,CNRS 7036

Univ Henri PoincarÚ Nancy1

BP 239 ,54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy cedex

France

tel 33383912267 ,66

fax 33383406492

http://www.lcm3b.u-nancy.fr

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