Meeting on June 14, 2010

Agenda

1. Attendance
2. Announce agenda
3. Approve May 17, 2010 Meeting Notes. Ask for review and address any problems seen in the notes.
4. Introduce sbmiller
5. Google Summer of Code updates
6. Open Questions
7. Summary and closing

Notes

Attendance

• tclarke
• gmartin_cn
• dadkins
• sbmiller
• goffena
• dsulgrov
• mconsidi
• kstreith

Summary

A new developer is working on Opticks as a summer intern. He is currently working on a MODIS importer for Opticks.

Google Summer of Code students are making progress. Updates are available on their wiki pages (available in the meeting log).

The programming contest has ended. The judges are reviewing entries and will have a winner announced on June 18.

A 1.0.1 release of the Python scripting extension is planned and will occur before July 2.

Decisions

Logs

2010-06-14T11:01:25 <tclarke> time to begine the meeting with attendance
2010-06-14T11:01:26 <tclarke> here
2010-06-14T11:01:33 *** dadkins has joined #opticks
2010-06-14T11:01:37 <gmartin_cn> here
2010-06-14T11:01:37 <dadkins> here
2010-06-14T11:01:38 <sbmiller> here
2010-06-14T11:01:44 <goffena> here
2010-06-14T11:01:49 <dsulgrov> here
2010-06-14T11:01:49 <mconsidi> here
2010-06-14T11:01:51 <tclarke> 1. Attendance
2010-06-14T11:01:51 <tclarke> 2. Announce agenda
2010-06-14T11:01:51 <tclarke> 3. Approve May 17, 2010 Meeting Notes. Ask for review and address any problems seen in the notes.
2010-06-14T11:01:51 <tclarke> 4. Introduce sbmiller
2010-06-14T11:01:51 <tclarke> 5. Google Summer of Code updates
2010-06-14T11:01:51 <tclarke> 6. Open Questions
2010-06-14T11:01:51 <tclarke> 7. Summary and closing
2010-06-14T11:01:51 <kstreith> here
2010-06-14T11:01:56 <tclarke> notes from the last meeting are here http://opticks.org/confluence/display/opticksChat/May+17%2C+2010+Meeting+Notes
2010-06-14T11:02:01 <tclarke> if you see any errors please fix them or let me know
2010-06-14T11:02:08 <tclarke> if nothing has been brought up by the end of the meeting, I'll assume they are accepted
2010-06-14T11:02:15 <tclarke> we'll start by introducing a new developer, sbmiller
2010-06-14T11:02:22 <tclarke> could you briefly introduce yourself?
2010-06-14T11:03:52 <sbmiller> sure! I'm an intern here at Ball for the next ten weeks, working on various projects for opticks.
2010-06-14T11:04:02 <sbmiller> currently, I'm assigned to take a look at improving performance for the MODIS importer and am working with mconsidi as my mentor
2010-06-14T11:04:19 <tclarke> for those who don't know, we are working on releasing a MODIS data importer as an open source plug-in
2010-06-14T11:04:25 <tclarke> any questions or comments for sbmiller?
2010-06-14T11:04:27 <tclarke> if not, we'll move on
2010-06-14T11:04:35 <tclarke> ok, google summer of code update
2010-06-14T11:05:44 <tclarke> our two SoC students have been busy
2010-06-14T11:06:03 <tclarke> updates for each student are available weekly on their wiki home pages
2010-06-14T11:06:08 <tclarke> http://opticks.org/confluence/x/MYFC
2010-06-14T11:06:19 <tclarke> and http://opticks.org/confluence/x/IIFC
2010-06-14T11:06:30 <tclarke> they both have started putting up some code so go check out their updates if you are interested
2010-06-14T11:06:38 <tclarke> they will not necessarily be at these meetings due to time zone differences
2010-06-14T11:07:52 <tclarke> so I'll occasionally summarize their work but there won't be a full report each meeting
2010-06-14T11:07:57 <tclarke> any other news or discussion on SoC?
2010-06-14T11:08:06 <tclarke> ok, open discussion...any topics to talk about>?
2010-06-14T11:08:11 <kstreith> programming contest
2010-06-14T11:08:18 <kstreith> the deadline for submission was June 4th
2010-06-14T11:08:21 <kstreith> we are reviewing entries now
2010-06-14T11:08:27 <kstreith> winner(s) will be announce this Friday, June 18th
2010-06-14T11:08:34 <kstreith> .
2010-06-14T11:10:00 <tclarke> ok, anything else?
2010-06-14T11:10:06 <kstreith> python scripting 1.0.1 release
2010-06-14T11:10:15 <kstreith> the 1.0.1 is code complete, you can grab the daily build
2010-06-14T11:10:15 <kstreith> http://opticks.org/hudson/job/Python1.0.X-Daily-Windows/
2010-06-14T11:10:24 <kstreith> the only remaining blocker for the release is documentation
2010-06-14T11:10:31 <kstreith> .
2010-06-14T11:11:57 <tclarke> do we have an estimated release date for Python 1.0.1 ?
2010-06-14T11:12:09 <kstreith> before July 2nd
2010-06-14T11:12:20 <tclarke> any other topics for today?
2010-06-14T11:12:42 <tclarke> ok, we'll end the meeting...notes and the new agenda will be posted to the mailing list later today