[Swarm Announce] Membership in Swarm Development Group

[Steve Railsback]

Hello Swarm users and agent-based modelers:

Voluntary membership fees are the primary funding source for Swarm 
Development Group---the way we finance services such as maintaining 
Swarm and upgrading it to work on new operating systems and hardware, 
and conducting SwarmFest.

None of us at SDG are paid to support Swarm, or to work on the wiki, or 
to organize SwarmFest. So when substantial tasks need to be done, we 
must pay for them. Among the projects we are considering supporting, if 
we can afford to, are:

 o Updating libraries needed to run Swarm on 64-bit MacOX and Linux 
hardware;
 o A reimplementation of Swarm in the C# language for use with 
Microsoft's .NET environment and Visual Studio IDE, and the public 
domain MONO environment;
 o A reimplementation of Objective-C Swarm in the Cocoa and GNUStep 
environments; and
 o Porting Swarm for use on the new Cell processor, which has a dual 
core and 8 subprocessors.

We just updated our membership page at: 
http://www.swarm.org/wiki/SDG_membership
Please take a look at it and consider membership. SDG membership fees 
can be included in grant proposals and research budgets, and they are 
tax-deductible. (Then, feel free to provide feedback on the development 
projects listed above.)

Steve Railsback for the Swarm Development Group board of directors