Jeff wrote: > And after we get that put up, I would like to make some announcements about > the collaboration. I know that we don't have a working system yet, but I can > mention that Overflow, GMS and Loci have merged. And I can mention what our > plans are. This is very important so that people know we are here, and so > that no-one tries to make a VSh of their own ;-) Well, before we start announcing we should probably actually decide on a final name for the program... I was thinking about this a bit in my genetics class and came up with an idea for a name: Hedgehog Why? What the heck are you talking about, Brad? Well, the hedgehog family of proteins are a really important set of molecules for controlling development in flies and mammalian systems. They are signal transduction proteins that pass developmental information from cell to cell and are responsible for proper formation of patterning in developing embryos (so they help detemine what if your back and front and right and left sides). So I thought this was analagous to vsh/loci/gms/overflow in the following way: Biology Our program -------- ---------- cell-cell communication => program-to-program communication proper embryo development => proper workflow development So Hedgehog is a protein that coordinates cells to develop in a good way, and vsh is a program that coordinates programs and libraries to flow together in a good way. Whadda you all think? The added advantages are that it has a easy acronym (hh) and that we can put pictures of hedgehogs on our site without people taking us away to the mental hospital :-) Brad