[wyldckat]

Greetings to all!

There have been already several open-source applications that have been developed specifically for OpenFOAM as GUIs or as scripts, utilities, solvers, libraries and so on.
Problem is that they can easily get lost in the busy OpenFOAM sub-forums and people end up forgetting the application names and that those even existed.

Very few of those applications have their own discussion forums outside of http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ or already have a dedicated sub-forum at cfd-online , but usually only because those with their own forums have at least two people working on them.

The features of these applications are usually in the range of editing, meshing and pre-processing, but perhaps it would be good to keep an open perspective on the possibility of many others rising up for post-processing and programming.
Then there are also those that create scripts, solvers and utilities, but don't post them at openfoamwiki.net, nor do they submit their applications to the unsupported contributions repository.
There are also some (rare) cases of tutorials showing up in the forums, but it's harder to categorize them, since they can relate to any topic...

So basically the suggestion is to create one or two sub-forums dedicated to the discussion of these kinds applications, as well as keeping track of their existence with sticky threads on each sub-forum (if necessary), possibly with something like this:

• OpenFOAM (the already existing forum)
  • ... (the sub-forums that already exist)
  • Community open-source contributions
    • GUIs
    • Scripts, Utilities, Solvers and Libraries
      (sometimes it's hard to break these apart into just solvers or libraries)

To name a few of the threads I'm thinking about:

• GUIs:
  • Helyx-OS (GUI for SnappyHexMesh
  • Problem Loading an existing OpenFoam case into HELYX
  • Installing HelyxOS on 32 and 64bit Linux Distributions
  • SwiftSnap and SwiftBlock, GUIs for OpenFOAM's meshers
  • HexBlocker a GUI for blockMeshDict, alpha release
• Scripts, Utilities, Solvers and Libraries:
  • Multi species mass transport library [update]
  • Waves2Foam Related Topics
  • (sorry, there are several more, but I can't find them at the moment)
  • edit: there are several threads on the topic of swak4Foam, pyFoam. These topics (almost) deserve their own sub-forum!

Best regards,
Bruno