hi BMatthews,
I know that thread, that's my post
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showp...&postcount=140 
I'm just determine the client groups, so it won't be you rc enthusiasts, but also aerospace engineering students. Ihad been one of them and we also had to find the right airfoil design for our drone, but we took the first NACA we found suitable
, because motorization is the main design point and we had no optimizer for the airfoil, so it couldn't been finished in time, so we skipped that.
Iknow that it will be just a small number, but I think it's doable with a reasonable amount of time, because xfoil is there, we can take it. And the optimizer itself could be as easy as possible like adding what you need, L/D coefficients, angle of attack and speeds and so on. Then the optimizer has to do that for example in this way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTe-AJsARZo
I think even Ican do such a particle swam. Such algos would also be possible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWT9YrN4_2I but I don't even know how they work.
But nevertheless all of them change the contours of the airfoil, let it be calculated with xfoil and get back a target value and rate them.
I think that's work for one person for some hours in one month and then it will run.
The server site is ready, we could wrap up everything relatively fast. We just have to include a user dropbox for their works and a receivebox for the results, but that is in the works for another project.
But we need some persons to help!
that's why I'm here.
Andreas