| [stem-dev] Notes from the STEM call on March 9, 2017 |
Notes from the STEM Community Call on March 9, 2017 On this call: James Kaufman, Stefan Edlund, Kun Hu, Emily Nixon, Matthias Filter, Taras Guenther, Ted Ling Hu, Judith Douglas Next call: Thursday, April 13, 2017, at 9 am Pacific Time 1. STEM 3.0.0 Milestone 5: Release pending solution of problem with launcher on Mac 2. Issues with STEM build on Mac and possible solutions *New security update on Mac; Eclipse 4 lacks plug-ins to launch. Problem w/ the build, not STEM *Workaround https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/1084123/1753241/#msg_1753241 *Outstanding issue awaits resolution when resources available (summer intern? post doc?) 3. Updates Emily *Attended workshop at BfR; currently on internship in UK government, has introduced STEM there *Had problem with Pajek graphs, got email help from Chris (who has updated Pajek), earlier from Matt *TO DO (Emily): Forward emails to stem-dev to document problem *Per Matthias, don’t use Excel version; go to main wiki page, advanced guides and click on the link there http://wiki.eclipse.org/Importing_a_Pajek_Graph *TO DO (Taras): Add one sentence on wiki: “We recommend you use Libra office….” Jamie *Wiki site on model generator and _expression_ language editor restored after hack *TO DO (Stefan): Contact Eclipse, get original authors (still missing after hack) Matthias *STEM training at BfR on February 6-7 well attended, feedback positive; will repeat the event *TO DO (Taras): Will post materials to wiki when time allows Taras *Continuing model development with birth and death rates, built in intervention *First issue: When rebuilt in Excel, sequencer started at 0.5, then 1.5, etc. (starting at 12 noon, not 12 midnight); model creator used time variable w/ finite difference solver *Per Jamie: Time stamp log should start at 0; elapsed time calculation does not = log time; this is an unexpected behaviors; may be a bug *TO DO (Taras): Send a project to Jamie and Stefan, will investigate *Second issue: When a parameter is calculated and put into an equation, it doesn’t show in the different compartments (unlike population) *Per Jamie: Currently this is logged only at the beginning; to track beyond this, can create a dummy compartment for “local variable “ TO DO (Taras, Matthias): Post Feature Request for logger for user defined parameter Kun *IBM Health Corps selects 5-6 project/year under its global services program *Was part of 6-person team working with the Panama equivalent of the CDC for 3 weeks *Developed a geographic reference system for vector control to run on Android tablet to take place of current paper system and manual calculations; help in mosquito control, infectious disease prevention *With Minister of Health and NGO, held workshop; used materials from Philippines last year; covered mathematical modeling, etc. |