A must watch video for everyone involved with the FDS and Smokeview Project.

I found this video very good for myself personally as I participate in other open source projects and as a developer in working with the FDS-SMV community.

In my opinion, this is a must watch video for anyone participating in software projects online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSFDm3UYkeE

As a side note, these are the guys that run the Google Code Project that we are using for FDS-SMV project services.

-Bryan

fds_5.0.2 Released for All Operating Systems.

I finally had a chance to catch up with the FDS tags and builds for OS X today. So, now there is fds_5.0.2 available for all supported platforms. For those of you who build FDS for yourself, I have added tags, 'fds_5.0.1_m' and 'fds_5.0.2_m' in the repository. The 'm' at the end of the tag name stands for Maintenance Release. For reference fds_5.0.1 is based on repository revision 836 and fds_5.0.2 is based on revision 977. You can update to those revisions, or else switch to the tags I have created, either way you get the same thing. See the FDS Release Notes Wiki for information on the changes between each release.

Enjoy,
-Bryan

Updates for smv_5.0.2 and fds_5.0.0_osx_intel.

I posted the correct fds_5.0.0 binary for osx_intel and Glenn posted a maintenance release of smv_5.0.2 for all platforms.

Go to the downloads page and click on your Operating System to find the new files.

http://fire.nist.gov/fds/downloads.html

Happy Modeling,
Bryan

FDS_5.0.0-SMV_5.0.1 is Released!!!

The day has finally arrived! The Official Release of FDS and Smokeview is upon us.
The new website is back at the old and familiar URL of http://fire.nist.gov/fds so update all your bookmarks. Take a look around the new site as there are some new features and added content to make the website and the FDS-SMV applications even easier to use than before. So go there today and get your self a fresh copy of FDS and Smokeview, hot off the compilers.

Note for windows users... You must uninstall the previous RC versions through 'add/remove programs' to get rid of all the stuff in the start menus, etc. Then run the new installer.

I want to give a big Thank You to all the Release Candidate Testers who helped us through the long and sometimes painful testing phase, you may notice your names in the User Guide as a thank you and acknowledgment of your contributions. If you helped us during testing and do not see your name in there, then please email myself or Kevin and let us know we will add it to the next revision of the manual.

This Major Release of FDS and Smokeview does not close the door on the collaboration or the development process. We intend for FDS and Smokeview to be living applications that will continue to evolve through all of our work and community feedback. So, please keep the Discussion Group alive and report bugs and problems you run across to the Issue Tracker.
Keep your eye out for the email from Kevin announcing the official release and we hope that the wait for FDS and Smokeview Version 5 will be worth it.

Best Regards,
Bryan Klein

Latest news for FDS-SMV development...

It has been too long since my last post. For that I apologize, as we have been very busy behind the scenes getting everything ready for the Official release of FDS and Smokeview version 5.

This month has been very productive and we have finally conquered the last big bugs in the RC releases. What does this mean to you? Well, in short, it means that we are now putting the finishing touches on the FDS_5 package before official release. Yes, that's right... the next release will be the official one! We are probably more excited than you are. :^)

In the meantime, if there are things you would like to see added to the user's guide, or example's of certain functionality added to the Verification Suite, please submit the request to the Issue Tracker.

One last thing... The Official FDS-SMV website will be moving to a .gov top level domain name soon. The fds-smv.net domain will still be used for the Google Code site, the Discussion Group and the Weblog. But the website will not be www.fds-smv.net much longer. Hopefully this is the last change to the website URLs. For the curious, it is because I maintain the site in an official capacity and is part of our mission and therefore must be .gov. It will look a little different, yet familiar, as I am taking this as an opportunity to add in a few special features.

Best Regards,
Bryan Klein