Agenda

• Visit to Imperial College London, London, UK

  • Discussion Points
    • FLIM
      • Points/Questions
        • New Dimension 'D' for Distribution
        • Multi channel
        • Multi Z
        • Multi detectors
        • Bin Width (how is it defines, is it uniform)
        • Time periods between scans
        • Duration of scans
        • Tracing time (Horizontal,Vertical,Left,Right)
        • Instrument Response Function
      • Diagrams (proposed new values in red) - NewLifetime-FriMeeting.pdf
    • Community Evolvement - covered in Wednesday UI Meeting by Scott
    • Other imaging modes/detectors (general future data discussion)
      
      

• Demo system

• Website

  • FAQ
    • ...still live but keep adding new questions.
    • different subheaders? (easy for user not for us)
    • detailed descriptions or not?
    • Please don't add answers to the list!
    • Reviewing (checking links, etc.); general website review schedule?
  • Forum spam
  • more text at site/community? images?

• 4.0.4

  • status

• 4.1

  • Report - Group A:
  • Report - Group B:

• Misc

  • Model changes & branches
  • Outstanding emails & forum posts:
    • http://lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk/pipermail/ome-users/2009-June/001884.html
    • http://lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk/pipermail/ome-users/2009-June/001917.html
  • Videos
  • licenses. GPL review.
  • fs issues
  • java/windows issues

• fun dicussions

  • user names
  • other data stores

Notes

• Lifetime meeting at Imperial

  • 2 category of changes
    • changes to allow to store additional planes of data in sensible way
    • values from instrument to do calculations: bin, width, etc.
  • how to find the proper level for attachment
  • relation to spectral lifetime?
    • currently only adding one dimension
    • supporting N-dimensions?
    • enumeration is N!
    • bigger discussion. off-meeting? 1400BST Monday
  • write proposal (as with SPW)
    • submit to several groups
    • see what they need
    • repeat
  • prepairing demo system

• Community evolvement at Imperial

  • How data model relates to wider workflow
  • relations to editor, etc.

• Website

  • headers: simplifying? only shows one-level deep.
    • files / clients / server?
    • datamodel / applications?
    • biologists / sysadmins / developers?
    • by date?
    • How? / What? / Where? / When?
    • ... no solution. Send an email if it's important to you.
  • detailed question: omit
  • review process
    • trac urls with search parameters? (keeping them up-to-date)
    • have to use /site/...; not ../../
    • @Andrew sends an email with instructions
    • whoever doesn't do their questions must do the reviews
    • no excuses: do your FAQ. find it on the mailing list.
    • similar to model review: every so many months
  • forum spam : more options to captcha? moderating account creation?
    • keep deleting
  • /site/community

• 4.0.4

  • decided on Wed., 4.0.4 should have been client only.
  • now it requires server for LSM
  • 4.1 release in October
  • Testing a group in Sept
  • Bigger than anticipated

• 4.1 : Group A

  • Still working on sending the data. Should be done Monday with sending full feedback
  • Testing Monday (late) or Tuesday (morning) to show on Wednesday Test results

• 4.1 : Group B

  • No progress on code generation
  • StructuredAnnotations hasn't been done yet.
  • Key/KeyRefs being put in at the top-level
  • Getting rid of all ID elements
  • ExcitationFilters, etc. multiple links to objects with special namespace
  • Model review beginning of August (All changes in)
  • Starting next week on the code generation stack (XSLT)
  • Need to think about breaking changes
    • What goes into 4.1, what's 4.2?
    • Needs lots of testing
    • Also need to get the metadata for manually testing

• misc

  • Insitutional resources email. @Chris responds
  • will did 3 videos. donald did 2.
    • need to speed up the movie pipeline
    • can be simple, but they need to be compressed. (consistent codecs)
  • licenses:
    • need to get bioformats licenses in
    • javascript discussion: "if not altered, s'ok. ... but ajax calls?"
    • a few jquery are GPL/commercial. need to see what we can replace
    • are any of the jquery scripts altered? simpletree (BSD)
    • giving changes back to the owner?
    • everyone modifies README and discusses on GPL-like code
  • fs : shouldn't be bouncing now
  • java 1.6 : more than just Windows (also Linux)
    • (deep in AWT) on component resizing
    • http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6819343
    • only on screen-view...
    • probably won't be able to get everyone to upload.
    • very tricky
    • need to be very open about it.
    • Chris can only trigger it with SPW
    • Perhaps where things get shrunk down.
    • catching exception and saying "upgrade java"

• fun discussion

  • how to come to resolution on these longer discussions?
  • should always come to these discussions with material/links
  • Tuesday 1400 BST talk about these issues.