Porting Challenge

[MamasGoodGravy]

Fellow Anandtechies.

My name is Eric Fayard, captain of Team Discovery over at Broadband Reports. Discovery was the launch team for a new d.c project helping out in research for TSC or Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Currently the project is using the Sengent Drug Optimization Lab to computing docking for possible drug candidates. It is only ported for Windows currently.

Here is the challenge. The director of the Rothberg Institute, which is spearheading this entire project, is willing to pay travel expenses to get some 15-30 qualified programmers down for a 2-3 day port-a-thon. The would like to see this project support Apple, Linux and possible Sun...

If you havent seen the project, you can check it out at http://www.ChildhoodDiseases.org

Download the client and get and idea if you could make a serious contribution to this important research. You could be part of a cure for this awful disease, which has close ties with many cancers.

Please send serious inquiries to me at: team_discovery@hotmail.com

Thanks

Eric Fayard

you can check out the thread that I posted in the Discovery Forum here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2949827~root=disco~mode=flat

 

[OhioDude]

This deserves a bump for the morning crowd on the east coast...

 

[AlricTheMad]

Eric,

Have you considered Open sourcing the code?

It is possible that posting the project on SourceForge or FreshMeat may attract the pogrammers you want.

It would expose the project to many more programmers, allow for ongoing work on the project and possibly save the expense of getting those programmers to Fla

Also the link for Childhooddiseases.org was not working for me.


Good Luck

AlricTheMad

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Sounds like a good cause, too bad I can't help

 

[gogeeta13]

i also advise open source, many of the DC projects today were ported from an open source code in the free time of interested people. You may not be able to get it done as quick, but i can guarentee that even if you fly in all those people for 3 days, there will be bugs and problems that will have to be fixed at a later date..

 

[Eltano1]

Bump for a good cause

Eltano