STEM Community Call June 8, 2011
On the call: Jamie, Maggie Hu, Matt, Stefan, Chris, Judy
Topics of the Week
Introducing Maggie Hu
· Post-doc from Virginia Tech in public health, will be contributing to work on STEM
Update on documentation for equations used by disease models
· Now have links to Dublin Core for all
· Need to update wiki to include every disease model (Jamie/Judy)
· Will carry discussion item forward for Matthias
STEM National Language Support progress and plan
· Have utility file, found a number of English strings
· Google now longer offers a translation service with API
· Need to identify another service; will check Yahoo
BFR: Do we have an official “bug” for the .shp file reader? We need to mark it +IPLOG
· Carry item forward for when BFR is on call
Update on splitting into features (input from stem-dev or newsgroup? Matt)
· Work proceeding ok
· Discussion re stem.product file: shifted, used only when launched
· Jamie: new users will need, we should add
Next week’s call
· Stefan will moderate
· Agenda developed at close of this week’s call; will be sent out separately and early
Items from Participants
· None