I somehow stumbled onto this FOSS project run by the Washington State Department of Transportation, the other day:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/alternateroute/ From the About page <http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/alternateroute/about.htm>: "The WSDOT Bridge and Structures Office is developing bridge engineering software tools. We plan to create small OLE Automation compatible objects that perform discrete engineering calculations that can be called from spreadsheets, scripts, and full-scale applications. We plan to create stand-alone desktop applications that perform design and specification checking for a variety of bridge types. We plan to create integrated suites of bridge engineering software tools for "top of deck" to "tip of pile" analysis. The list goes on and on. We will do all of this work using Open Source Software concepts and all of the resulting software products will be Open Source." The project started in 1999, and has since produced a number of notable FOSS packages that are in use by state governments all throughout the US --like "the most widely used, most comprehensive AASHTO LRFD precast bridge girder design software in the world", PGSuper: http://www.pgsuper.com/ Very interesting stuff. -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/