| [stem-dev] STEM Community Call Notes 5/26/11 |
STEM Community Call May 26, 2011 On the call: Stefan, Jan, Chris, Matt, Judy Topics of the Week Changes to the finite difference solver · While working on demographic model in which people age, Chris has implemented changes to make the finite difference solver “more correct” (take smaller time steps) · Hence doing new integration tests Adding documentation for equations used by disease models · Item requested by Matthias · Working to define new extension point (Dublin core associated with it), link to website on the math behind it, so can see where it comes from, get more documentation · Will discuss on next week’s call Comments on Matt’s suggestions for STEM features, repository reorg, etc.; STEM update site now live · Received, discuss comments from Jamie, Stefan; waiting for Dan to reply · Essentially more structural than involving the application itself, hence not a prime concern for Bfr team · Published Earth Science data this week, update site now live · Next step: splitting up into features · Matt will prepare proposal on how/what to split into features, post strawman on stem-dev, newsgroup in next day or two, give a week for comments, then put into place Items from participants · Matthias: Will do demo @ end of June Items from Participants Jan for Matthias: Can a German IBM group partner with Bfr? Need corporate partner to get funding from German government; Matt will tell Jamie, ask him to contact Matthias directly to discuss |