STEM Community Call September 1, 2011
On the call: Jamie, Matt, Judy, Kun, Stefan, Matthias, Werner
Topics of the Week
New Release 1.2.2. Release candidate is up; target date for release is September 7
· Includes bug fixes from 1.2.1, new faster accessors for disease models
New target date for 1.3 (1/07/2012)
· Major New Features to include
- Ten years of Earth Science Data (2000-2010) available as STEM
'''Features''' - Malaria Disease Model (''Anopheles'' calibrated)
- Dengue Fever Disease Model (''Aedes'' not yet calibrated)
- Additional NLS + User ability to switch languages
- Logger Framework with new loggers
- Shape File Import Utility (Dependency on Open Map CQ)
- Integrating external models for study of food based transmission
- New Differential Equation solver(s) from commons.math library
- Bug Fixes from 1.2.2
· Need presentation slides for 1.3, formalize process, submit to Eclipse; Jamie will ask Matthias for several slides
TODOs check colors on map, timeseries, and analysis timeseries views
- Kun working on timeseries colors, will double check status
TODO: org.eclipse.core.runtime.Preferences; is deprecated
- This class is replaced by IEclipsePreferences
- Matt will evaluate, discuss w/ Alamaden team
- Jamie will discuss this an infrastructure issues w/ Matthias if his proposal is accepted (Oct/Nov timeframe per Matthias)
Babel language pack CQ' submitted
- Matt checking; partial approval; Jamie/Matt to follow up
Werner's abstract submission
- Jamie: IBM team cannot attend due to funding
- Werner: Can present abstract on behalf of team at Eclipsecon Europe; will send link to Jamie to distribute
New Item: IBM team invited to give STEM workshop in Malaysia in December (originally week of Dec 5; may be week earlier or later)
- Jamie: Want prep work to be reusable
- Will prepare scenarios for tutorial showing differences between solvers, data input example, data logging, image and data examples
- For each demo scenario, will produce YouTube tutorials; Stefan has done screen saves for these
- Example of food borne disease? Matthias: hopefully yes, will talk w/ Jan
New Item: Because of above, will do code freeze @ beginning of November, do code testing and bug fixes; do new release candidate for 1.2.3 11/1/11
- After 1.2.2: change platform to Indigo, hopefully cure bug of disappearing items (will EMF fix?)
- Harden 1.2.3 before workshop; date to be determined, late November
New Item: Jamie will take Alamaden team to see the film Contagion next week
Items from participants: None this week
