[ODE] introduction

[Gary French]

greetings,
  I'm quite interested in ODE and would like to contribute my energies 
to it if possible, I am currently a college student majoring in 
computer science and have experience in c, c++, qt, linux, perl, html, 
and xml.

-g

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