ROOT 2001 Workshop Fermilab June 1315

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ROOT 2001 Workshop Fermilab June 13-15

• Patricia McBride
• FNAL CD/CPD

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Welcome to ROOT2001

• ROOT developers
• Presentations this morning
• Root Status --Rene Brun
• CINT Status --Masa Goto
• ROOT system and GUI classes --Fons Rademakers
• Root on Windows --Bertrand Bellentot
• Trees, Folders and Tasks --Rene Brun
• ROOT experts
• ROOT users
• Future ROOT Users

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Root Support at Fermilab

• Computing Division / CPD department
• Philippe Canal, Jeff Kallenbach, Suzanne Panacek
• The FNAL/CD group works with the RUNII
  experiments to provide ROOT support at Fermilab
  (also Minos, MiniBooNE,)
• Regular release of ROOT on about 20 platforms
• Software support
• Active participation in ROOT development
• Bug fixes
• Testing
• ROOT Classes and tutorials
• available on the web www-cpd.fnal.gov/root/
• ROOT Users Guide
• Fermilab ROOT mailing list about-root_at_fnal.gov

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3rd ROOT Workshop

• First Workshop at Fermilab in March 1999
• Followed the recommendation by the CDF, DO, CD
  joint working group to adopt ROOT as the standard
  physics analysis package for RUN II
• Second Workshop at CERN in Feb. 2000
• Follow-up work led to ROOT v3.0
• Third Workshop -- June 2001
• Another opportunity for the developers to meet to
  the ROOT user community
• Formulate a vision for future ROOT development

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Workshop Rules

• This is a workshop not a conference.
• Please ask questions.
• Please leave time for discussion at the end of
  your talk.
• Please participate in the discussions.
• Session chairs will keep track of the time and
  focus the discussions.
• We want to hear your comments and ideas that is
  why we are here.
• Summaries and conclusions from each will be
  reviewed in the final session on Friday.

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Acknowledgements

• Thank you to the ROOT team for coming to Fermilab
  for the workshop.
• Thank you to the organizers of the ROOT2001
  workshop.
• Jeff Kallenbach, Tim Henning and the local
  organizing committee.
• Thanks to all of you for participating.
• Have a productive and enlightening workshop!