| [stem-dev] STEM Call Jan 26, 2011 |
01/26/2011 Task and Documentation Tracking On call: Jamie, Jan, Matt, Stefan, Arik, Werner ALL: THE TECHNICAL PROBLEMS WITH THE CALL IN NUMBER WILL BE RESOLVED AND NEW NUMBERS EMAILED TO YOU BEFORE NEXT WEEK’S CALL STEM Release 1.1.1 · Release 1.1.1 is up · Items will be posted on Newsgroup and website; Stefan to send items to Judy to post (Documentation) Possible STEM Workshop or Symposium · Jamie met with Werner and Mike M. to discuss · Venue in Europe at EclipseCon November 2011 or 2012 · Eclipse will arrange/pay for room; no money for travel · Workshop more informal; symposium more formal with invited papers · Jan: 2011 workshop better for him · Jamie will send Judy info to post on Newsgroup to start discussion · Will revisit during next week’s call, figure who might attend, etc. · Need to let Eclipse know by June Process for New Committers · A democratic process: existing committers can nominate, vote on new committers · Should nominate contributors (e.g., Armin) to become committers Graphical Editor (Jan) · Will discuss following this call (long, technical, can stay on if wish) · Jamie: Thanks to Jan for his contribution! New UI for Automated Experiment · Use to fit to reference data; have had since 1.1 release · Now in toolbar to help set parameters · Will highlight as feature for Release 1.2; will need documentation (Judy to track) (Documentation) Global Meshing Algorithms · Need for countries like Congo that have no subdivisions, look like black hole · Can access LandScan documentation associated with our labels to yield higher spatial resolution · Note: Data must be available for distribution under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) · Jan: Make this automatic? Jamie: We do the preprocessing as with Congo; this allowed under LandScan agreement (but can’t release their data) · Jamie: Make meshing algorithm available as a tool? · Werner will investigate possible contacts with access to higher resolution maps of Congo that could be made available under the EPL Items from Participants · Judy: Will work with Sondra and Jamie on AMIA proposal; Will send Jamie and Arik specs for graphics for PLoS One · Arik: Reported on talk by Ben Rice at Haifa lab on Healthmaps.org; will consider inviting him to join STEM call; will followup on feedback on email request re Africa data · Jamie: Thanks to Arik for revisions on mosquito paper; Dan gave us contact in Australia who may join call next week; interested in using STEM to model TB |