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2009-05-22 OME Group Conference Call

Attending: Josh, Melissa, Chris, Andrew, Jean-Marie, Ola, Jason

Agenda

  • ELMI - Glasgow http://www.elmi2009.org/

  • ASCB (yes I know it is in December but the exhibitor prospectus has just come out)

  • Updates on ome-users: micro-manager, cool iris, group owner accessing images, ... (& the forum?)

  • OME Forums?

  • Paris Meeting - Review

  • Roadmap

    • These are primary coming out of Paris
      • Data In/Data Out
      • Data Dupe
    • But what about:
      • OpenGL and insight
      • ROIs
      • website updates
    • Need updates to Trac sites.
  • OMERO 4.1.0

Notes

  • Meetings

    • ELMI
      • Jason speaking
      • several workshops perhaps. (costs?)
    • ASCB
      • Let's try to get things sorted earlier
      • Joint booth or booths next to one another?
      • Same as last year.
      • Need to contact Nico, Mike & Emma: "play it again, Sam"?
    • ELSO (Nice)
  • Mailing list

    • Susan: everything ok?
    • Martin: thanks
    • Micro-manager: not today (multi-file) zip solution?
    • group thumbnails: older version?
    • 4.0.2 on XP?
    • Forums: everyone register to try it out
      • Adding/renaming forums before we have users there
      • Sticky messages? etc.
  • Paris Users Meeting

    • Discussion of how many users
      • There were people who didn't
    • DataIn/Out/Dupe
      • (speed is not an issue)
      • Various types of data; anticipating the data model; FLIM, EM, ...
      • Making data upload easier on error with linked exception
      • Failover to minimum import (compatibility mode). Can't fail silently!
      • Re-import
      • Testing set that is definitive
        • VITAL.
        • If it doesn't work, everything stops!
        • No more regressions.
        • Also have to check the metadata in the database. (DICOM range, etc.)
        • Extend strategy of testing.
        • Carefully review the exceptions raised!
        • 4.0.y client that provides the upload feature??
        • Mini-group meeting on Monday 3 BST (email anouncement) * Focusing on one topic. * Clinical procedures. * Output should be a schedule.
      • Modalities (FLIM & Imperial, etc.)
        • First question: Which types?
        • EM is a 3 years project
        • Visiting at Imperial? Jason will contact Paul re: Andrew
        • Investigation will be done in parallel to the other work.
      • OME-TIFF
        • Fix OME-TIFF validation
        • BF Retrieve in Bio-formats for reading from OMERO
        • Supporting exporting datasets? Annotations?
        • Also need consistent experimenter, etc. in the exports.
        • Detecting that it was exported from the system? Yes. LSIDs.
        • Having export included in the import testing framework!
      • Duplication
        • Target everything else for end of June?
        • Depends on the numbers from the meeting Monday
        • Need to start quickly. (Beta testing July 15)
        • Possibly running as a separate group.
        • Discuss on Tuesday/Wednesday the initial deliverables & split work
      • The leftovers
        • OpenGL: adding to trunk and documenting the native library * Happy for the moment with the features. Just a deployment issue.
        • ROI: working in a minimal state * Turning it on to play with * And for the next release, we can do it full stack. * Perhaps a week spent on it if need be. * Anticipating changes needed in RE, RDefs, ... * Modifying thumbnails as if in viewer * Also needed for screens
        • NSIS installer: 60 ~ 80% done * No pressing need to get it done. * Andrew has worked on them before. * Virtual machine infrastructure is in place for testing. * Can't over commit everyone. * For 4.1 would be really nice!
        • website updates: * Plone needs to be installed again. * Needs to be migrated, and have test site changes applied * Menus, etc. all fine. Search box relies on theme. * Theme stuff is icky. * ProSilverSpecialEdition phpBB theme is nice. * 250$ for a theme? Chris contacts him.
    • trac meeting changes
      • After meetings beginning of next week
      • Roll back database version
      • Need to notify via other means
        • not everyone is on mailing list. Should they be?
        • Using the blog? The forum? Yes.
        • (adding Michael's scripts as test files)
      • Reviewing all the existing tickets?
        • Do it together. Goes fast.
  • will & protocol in DB

    • searching & querying via forms
    • anticipating upcoming work (~6 months)
    • is a follow up needed?
    • What's the solution to an ill-defined ontology? Editor.
    • Heading to Paris?
    • Querying is a part of data-in & data-out
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