Meeting on July 12, 2010

Agenda

1. Attendance
2. Announce agenda
3. Approve June 28, 2010 Meeting Notes. Ask for review and address any problems seen in the notes.
4. Google Summer of Code updates
5. Data fusion upgrades
6. Open Questions
7. Summary and closing

Notes

Attendance

• tclarke
• mconsidi
• rgoffena
• dsulgrov
• kstreith
• Yiwei
• sbmiller

Summary

The Google Summer of Code projects are progressing. See the links in the log for weekly updates.

tclarke is planning on revamping the Data Fusion tool and has requested requirements and user stories over the next couple of weeks. Please send emails to dev@opticks with your feedback.

A number of release candidates will be available by the end of the week.

• Opticks 4.4.0rc1
• Python 1.0.1rc1
• Python 1.1.0rc1
• Spectral 1.1.0rc1
• IDL 1.1.0rc1

A new COAN extension is in the works. It contains video tracking algorithms and will be available later this summer.

Decisions

Logs

2010-07-12T11:00:51 <tclarke> ok, let's start the meeting with attendance
2010-07-12T11:00:51 <tclarke> here
2010-07-12T11:00:53 <mconsidi> here
2010-07-12T11:00:56 <rgoffena> here
2010-07-12T11:02:32 <tclarke> 1. Attendance
2010-07-12T11:02:32 <tclarke> 2. Announce agenda
2010-07-12T11:02:32 <tclarke> 3. Approve June 28, 2010 Meeting Notes. Ask for review and address any problems seen in the notes.
2010-07-12T11:02:32 <tclarke> 4. Google Summer of Code updates
2010-07-12T11:02:32 <tclarke> 5. Data fusion upgrades
2010-07-12T11:02:32 <tclarke> 6. Open Questions
2010-07-12T11:02:32 <tclarke> 7. Summary and closing
2010-07-12T11:02:40 <tclarke> meeting notes from last time are here: http://opticks.org/confluence/display/opticksChat/June+28%2C+2010+Meeting+Notes
2010-07-12T11:02:47 <tclarke> if you find any problems, please let me know, otherwise I'll consider them approved
2010-07-12T11:02:57 <tclarke> the first item on the agenda is an update on the Google Summer of Code proejcts
2010-07-12T11:02:59 <dsulgrov> here
2010-07-12T11:04:29 <kstreith> here
2010-07-12T11:04:29 <Yiwei> here
2010-07-12T11:04:39 <tclarke> bother students are progressing and have been making updates weekly on the wiki:
2010-07-12T11:04:45 <tclarke> http://opticks.org/confluence/display/~yiwei/Summer+of+Code+Schedule
2010-07-12T11:04:46 <tclarke> and http://opticks.org/confluence/display/~yuguess/GSoC+Week+Report
2010-07-12T11:05:01 <tclarke> would anyone like to provide any details or ask any questions regarding summer of code?
2010-07-12T11:05:18 <sbmiller> here
2010-07-12T11:05:20 <kstreith> the student I'm mentoring, Cheng Dalong, alias of yuguess, has started work on the Import Stacking feature in his proposal
2010-07-12T11:06:53 <kstreith> mid-term reviews for the students are this week. In general both of our students have been hard at work creating code. That's it for my update
2010-07-12T11:07:00 <tclarke> anything else before we move on?
2010-07-12T11:07:10 <tclarke> data fusion upgrades
2010-07-12T11:07:26 <tclarke> I'm starting to refactor, update and modernize the data fusion plug-in
2010-07-12T11:08:39 <tclarke> There are a number of opticks JIRA issues related to this including:
2010-07-12T11:08:55 <tclarke> OPTICKS-891, OPTICKS-762, OPTICKS-530, OPTICKS-174, OPTICKS-173, OPTICKS-172
2010-07-12T11:09:08 <tclarke> if you have ideas or requirements for a new data fusion interface we can start some discussion here or you can send an email to dev@opticks.ballforge.net
2010-07-12T11:09:20 <tclarke> as I get more details worked out, I'll post additional information. Right now I'm mostly concerned with getting the requirements and user stories worked out
2010-07-12T11:10:41 <tclarke> so if you have specific use cases, etc. which you use or would like to see, the best time to speak up is in the next couple of weeks
2010-07-12T11:10:55 <tclarke> any thing else on data fusion?
2010-07-12T11:10:59 <tclarke> if not, we'll move on to the open topics section of the meetin
2010-07-12T11:11:00 <tclarke> g
2010-07-12T11:11:04 <tclarke> any other topics for discussion?
2010-07-12T11:11:11 <kstreith> upcoming release
2010-07-12T11:11:24 <kstreith> the Opticks 4.4.0rc1, Python 1.0.1rc1, Python 1.1.0rc1, Spectral 1.1.0rc1 and IDL 1.1.0rc1 releases are being worked this release
2010-07-12T11:11:28 <kstreith> and should make it up to the website by the end of the week
2010-07-12T11:11:34 <kstreith> so everyone has that to look forward to
2010-07-12T11:12:45 <kstreith> done
2010-07-12T11:12:50 <tclarke> any other topics?
2010-07-12T11:13:15 <tclarke> I've been working on some video tracking algorithms for my master's thesis....I'm planning on cleaning up the code and making a release in the next couple of months sometime so keep an eye out
2010-07-12T11:13:24 <tclarke> this will not be an official Opticks extension but will be part of COAN
2010-07-12T11:13:41 <tclarke> if there are no more topics, we'll finish up
2010-07-12T11:14:54 <tclarke> ok, thanks for attending
2010-07-12T11:14:57 <tclarke> watch dev@opticks for meeting notes
2010-07-12T11:15:14 <tclarke> if you have something to discuss at the next meeting in 2 weeks, please add to the agenda (the link will be in the email with the meeting notes)