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2009-05-29 OME Group Conference Call

Attending: Jason, Andrew, Chris, Brian, Josh, Curtis, Carlos, Colin, Melissa, Donald, Ola, Will

Agenda

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

  • Website

    • Roadmap and History, "What's OMERO?"
    • Look and feel
    • phpBB: admining, email notifications
    • faq
  • 4.0.4

  • 4.1

    • Tickets: new ones, assigning current ones, etc.
    • Group A
    • Group B: LSIDs, simple export, XSD fun
  • Misc

    • Outstanding emails: matlab (today), permanent storage (26th), download (14th), omero_fetch (12th)
    • Matlab heads-up
    • Committer rights

Notes

  • ELMI

    • registrations ongoing
    • need to get a server ready
    • need to get software (4.0.3, imagej) installed
  • Website

    • Swapped! new menus, links to forums (with superglued menus)
    • "roadmap & history" under support? where should they be? top-level? under products?
      • roadmap move to Product>Omero
      • "what is omero" is too technical.
      • (lots of discussion)
      • need to get the linkages in place
      • getting rid of pages with just two links (cF. project history)
      • actions
        • roadmap/history->about
        • add points from loci
        • "future development" -> global roadmap? yes. * or embedding them?
    • toplevel pages should be high-level overview with links to more content
    • look&feel: main page & forums are very different
      • brian & andrew try to work that out
    • phpbb
      • only sends email when you get a new topic or a thread
      • will this take extra monitoring? (can see what you have and have not seen)
      • a second comment "i have the same problem" counts as answered.
    • faq: we've got lots of questions
      • how to move forward?
      • any questions to be removed? possibly.
      • just pointing at the correct page?
      • something that looks like the phpbb faq? or plone plugin?
  • 4.0.4

    • breaking our promises?
    • working on getting LSMs fixed
    • hamamatsu files are broken
    • todos: formats, a few insight bugs (split view) & web - fixed committed
    • lots of testing going on (new feedback mechanism, etc.)
    • assess again over the next few days
  • 4.1

    • trac updated
      • still need old tickets moved / new tickets created
      • moving them to the appropriate person
      • analysis bits are still in 4.2 (tentatively)
      • new user "OME-Team" looks clean and understandable (common owernship)
      • handling it with the different status? NEW/ASSIGNED
    • We have to get the roadmap for 4.1 into trac
      • Which tickets need to go there? (Definitely some)
      • SO! many little tiny things we need to fix.
      • Over next 2-3 weeks get tickets for that period into the milestone
      • (And assign them to yourselves!)
    • feedback, etc.
      • time to get all the various web apps together
      • feedback+registry+testengine, etc. need to have a meeting
      • ola, andrew, brian, josh, carlos; 1400BST on Wednesday, summary presented on Friday
  • misc

    • emails
      • matlab: unclear what's going on. A close being missed? Version of cellprofiler or matlab? Need a diff, *.m files. (Donald)
      • permanent storage (Chris)
      • download (Donald; already applied)
      • Paulo (Ola)
      • omero_fetch (Jason)
    • importer bugs? all ok.
    • matlab & michael : cool. conversion to python?
      • highlights bugs in gateway
      • doing it across the project?
  • jason

    • challenge & go grants (obama's stimulate the economy)
    • some look like they've been written for OME ~ image repositories, etc. (highly political)
    • (use cases for the website with real people: UC, etc.)
    • biomed central (99 journals) ~ environment that gets it!
    • number of Jason's presentations! Demos well. (And Jason gave out his password....)
    • Delivering on "The web will be about data"
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