Re: suggestion

[Tom Droege <droege@FNAL.GOV>]

I have been pondering about how to answer this thread.  Trying not to sound
too elitist, tass is just not a group for "Dummies".  

This is mostly a research group.  The "How to Play Tass" note summs up my
concept.  We welcome anyone, but you have to try.  No one is going to spoon
feed you.  We don't have a "solution" to pass on to you.  We are struggling 
to find a "solution".  We welcome you to join in the search.  If, with all 
the information on the home page, you can't find something to do; then you
probably don't belong here.  Sorry it is that way.  I, for example, cannot
play major league baseball.  I would not know what to do on a ball field.

But note what Marty Pittinger and the JHUAPL group have done with a high
school student.  If a high school student can do a bit of science, then so
can you.  Everything the student got is available here to anyone who has 
enough computer knowledge to move around the internet.  
  
A lot of us know what to do here.  I could keep busy for the rest of my life
(and I plan to) with tasks that I can easily see.  OK, I will throw out the
topic of the day.  Figure out a practical way for tass to do focusing.  If 
you work on the problem, put up a message that says "do this, this, and this,
take this kind of frame, then process it with this program, and then do this",
someone will participate with you to make the whole scheme work.  

Tom Droege


At 06:08 PM 4/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>might i suggest someone write up some thing like 
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>	TASS FOR DUMMIES	
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>it would first tell one what programs there are to download and what they
>do
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>then what other than the programs are neeeded to perform what task
>(linux, win95, what data files, etc.)
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>and then how to apply the programs  and what to look for
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>you might get some lurkers interested in doing something 
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>jamie
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