Notes

• ASCB

  • Andrew gone
  • padded carpet
  • saturday afternoon free for internal mtg.
  • need agenda; @for next tuesday
  • tuesday prior to ASCB (the 1st) will be about demos
  • categories:
    • "never heard of you before"
    • "have you got your act together"
    • "what you got new?"
    • "demo account?"
    • "just bioformats"

• Presentations

  • next week: tables
    • what everyone wants to do
    • DataIn, storage, display
    • Getting it written up
    • Beginnings of a solution for mgmt of assoc. data

• KIT

  • 4.1 is now deployed
  • Trying to figure out which server is to be used for demo accounts, etc.
  • Let's get the accounts running

• 4.1.1/Tickets

  • Talking to the scientists. Several things came up
  • Committed going regularly to the lab meeting with screenshots. (Would like to sessions before a release)
  • https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=status&milestone=OMERO-Beta4.1.1
  • QA: how to respond to people? what type of interaction?
  • Answering all QA within 24 hours. At least create a ticket.
  • Touchy-feely stuff for feedbacks.
  • Weren't there demo servers for the Dundee scientists? Yes, but it's more.
  • Michael giving demos. How do we support all this?...
  • Growing community...
  • High priority bugs/actions:
    • saveCurrentSettings
    • TestEngines files
    • Running it internally (see Mage)
    • Cleaning up insight builds
    • Release in 10 days (end of month)
    • Notifying on nightshade upgrade (blog)
    • Getting nightshade user email addresses (forums? Maybe blog? No)
    • Test importer against 4.1.0 server

• Integration of scripts

  • Focusing on publishing scripts
  • Integrated into insight
  • Process highlighted several deficiencies with server/scripts
  • Using ROIs saved back to server
  • Trying ImageJ FRAP plugin
  • OT: CellProfiler? Hopefully.
    • Released. But only proof-of-concept. Removing support?
  • Presentation
    • Try to handle different images in single figure
    • ROI handling: takes first rectangle
    • "Primary selection"
    • A lot of work to have the UI give a good impression of the figure
    • Things to fix
      • when things go very badly wrong, need more feedback
      • having images as tiffs
      • getting PIL properly installed
      • optimizing: few-5 minutes for 4 projections
      • OT: server speed * any DB access 100 ms * "how many database views per second?"
      • Adding dataset, etc. to figure.
      • Getting rid of the old uploaded scripts
      • Getting the facility out to people
      • Scripting IDE
      • Accepted paradigm: ImageJ
      • Building community
      • General plugin concept
      • ROI: length, pixel intensity range, ... NS!
      • What are the X things to have someone external work on it (feedback)
      • Get to that point and then pass off to Marcus
      • Problems: error handling, file-naming (no unique name)
      • Running RE as background/script? Yes, but have to solve multi-repository