Dear Rene Brun,

I'm contacting you to inform you that the ROOT/PROOF toolkit has been proposed to be included in the EGEE RESPECT program. If you are not familiar with RESPECT (Recommended External Software for EGEE CommuniTies) you can find more information at EGEE project's web site: http://technical.eu-egee.org/index.php?id=290. In brief RESPECT is a list of software tools that are being developed independently of EGEE but taking advantage or somehow extending the Grid services offered by gLite software and the EGEE grid infrastructure. Inclusion in RESPECT means that EGEE endorses these tools by recognizing their utility for the broad grid user community.

The proposal to include ROOT/PROOF was submitted by Torsten Rathmann  from DKRZ, who is currently acting as a Regional Coordinator of the EGEE NA4 activity in Germany & Switzerland. Torsten has already provided all the information needed in order to consider ROOT/PRROF for RESPECT but since he is not directly affiliated with the development team we have to confirm that you agree to include the toolkit in RESPECT.  From your part this means a commitment to continue supporting the software and provide any required feedback to user problems (which I suppose you already do). Your contact details and the suggestion to get in touch with you for this purpose was give to my by Patricia Mendez Lorenzo.

Looking forward for your comments and response.

Kind regards,

Vangelis Floros