The following are details of the discussion items at the IUCr Computing Commission meeting. The overall objective of the meeting was to get input from the old committee on projects for the next three years which would be presented to the new committee after the IUCr executive had accepted the new committee members. While these are not official IUCr sponsored schools the computing committee endorses such efforts, but without guarantee of funds or labor.
Support is on a best effort basis.
Two possible schools were discussed. The second resurrects a previous suggestion from David Watkin, which was not enthusiastically endorsed by members of the community polled, but it was agreed that interest in such a meeting should be measured again. While having a School, there was no consensus as to the content of a School associated with the 1999 Glasgow Congress, except that it should at least appeal to a non-macromolecular audience, since macromolecules is the focus of the current school. This will be discussed further and addressed in a report from the new committee after on-going discussions with the Glasgow organizers. Summer School - Prague J. Hasek raised the idea of a macromolecular School associated with the ECM in Prague in 1997.