[CoinBazaar] Some Coin Bazaar Proposals

[Hart, William E]

Brad:

Thanks for the proposals!  Your submissions made me realize that I had omitted one other element from the proposal:  a justification for inclusion in Coin Bazaar.  Can you please provide a justification for these that addresses the following?

    * Why is this project of interest to the operations research community?
    * Why does this project belong in COIN-OR?
    * Why does this project belong in Coin Bazaar? Could it be a stand-alone COIN-OR project?

Don't spend too much time on this.  The omhelp and mat2cpp projects are the only ones that might not fit.


> The term Developers below has been used for the original developer of
> the
> software. As for project manager of the future Coin Bazaar project, I
> could
> put the original version out there, but I am hoping that Coin Bazaar
> will encourage others to participate.

I agree that this is confusing.  I've changed the proposal process to indicate a 'lead' project developer.


> As for Licenses, the ones where I was the only original developer can
> easily
> be changed to other licenses (if desired). (Except that the copyright
> for mat2cpp is held by the University of Washington, so that is
> slightly
> more difficult).

My intent is _not_ to have Coin Bazaar projects licensed consistently.  Instead, this should be a quick-and-easy way to make small code projects available within COIN-OR.  Addressing licensing issues can be difficult;  for example, it's not clear that I can license code under the EPL for my work at Sandia...

--Bill


> 
> Project Name:     cppad2ipopt
> Current Web Page: http://www.coin-or.org/CppAD/Doc/ipopt_cppad_nlp.xml
> Description:      Nonlinear Programming Using the CppAD Interface to
> Ipopt
> Developers:       Bradley M. Bell
> License:          CPL or GPL
> Comment:          It should be easy to extend this interface so that it
>                   can use ADOL-C or CppAD.
> 
> Project Name:     omhelp
> Current Web Page: http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/omhelp/index.xml
> Description:      A web based documentation system
> Developers:       Bradley M. Bell.
> License:          GPL
> 
> Project Name:     pycppad
> Current Web Page: http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/pycppad/index.xml
> Description:      A Python Algorithm Derivative Package
> Category:         Optimization utility
> Developers:       Sebastian F. Walter and Bradley M. Bell.
> License:          BSD
> 
> Project Name:     ckbs
> Current Web Page: http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/ckbs/ckbs.xml
> Description:      A Constrained Kalman-Bucy Smoother
> Category:         Optimization stochastic ODEs
> Developers:       Bradlely Bell and Gianluigi Pillonetto
> License:          GPL
> 
> Project Name:     l1_regular
> Current Web Page:
> http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/l1_regular/l1_regular.xml
> Description:      Linear L1 Regularization Routines
> Category:         Optimization linear contiuous
> Developers:       Bradley M. Bell.
> License:          GPL
> Category:         Developer tool
> 
> Project Name:     mat2cpp
> Current Web Page:
> http://toronto.rfpk.washington.edu/doc/mat2cpp/license.xml
> Description:      Example Conversion of Matlab or Octave to C++ using
> Ublas
> Category:         Developer tool
> Developers:       Bradley M. Bell.
> License:          Boost
> 
> Project Name:     f2cAD
> Current Web Page: http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/f2cAD/f2cad.xml
> Description:      Convert Fortran to C++ AD Types
> Category:         Optimization utility
> Developers        Bradley M. Bell
> License:          GPL
> 
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