2013-05-28 Tuesday Team Meeting
Attendance : Dundee: Kenny, Gus, Petr, Mark, Chris, Ola, Helen, Andrew, Joyce, Jason, Simon Remote: Josh, Sebastien, Jean-Marie, Kevin, Andreas, Carlos, Stick, Colin, Douglas, Ian, Laura, Mark H, Melissa, Niko, Zeb
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- minutes accepted
Feedback on Site Visits: Gus Ferguson slides (45 mins) - 14:33 UK
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Gus:
- a lot of goodwill toward OMERO, people trying to get it adopted, need selling points
- documentation and client improvements appreciated
- frustration in waiting a long time for improvements with no ETA
- major, widespread gripes are,
- conventional file hierarchy instead of two-level
- modifications made in ImageJ/Fiji need to get back into OMERO
- broken search
- image-to-image links, e.g. for different stages of the image’s processing, or between original and collaborative copy
- common requests are,
- transfer data between OMERO instances (e.g., early adopters’ data stuck on pilot server, not production)
- ad-hoc creation of collaborative groups, quick and easy
- icons in Insight are too small and their meaning is not obvious, and all should have menu options
- a central script repository, many useful scripts could be shared
- user preferences, so that client retains state between sessions
- workflows,
- easily create and share and cancel guest accounts and collaborators
- drag and drop center-pane thumbnails, arrangement persists
- other RFEs include,
- import of non-image files, data formats that OMERO cannot yet parse, spreadsheets, etc.
- standard image manipulation operations, as typically found in other graphics packages
- institutional branding
- ability to update BioFormats quickly without waiting for OMERO point release
- documentation improvements sought,
- running separate processors on other machines
- scripts
- backup and recovery
- website lists institutions using OMERO, useful for grant applications
- outstanding issues include Insight ROI tool, workflows for administration and tagging
- detailed site comments noted in Google documents
- Jean-Marie: we are getting better at looking back at this captured information about what is important for users
- Jean-Marie: especially, many users have sometimes asked for something that is easily delivered
- Jason: review these to-do’s and understand their impact on the different software components; this scoping guides planning of further development
- Chris: some of these feature requests are very many months’ work each, from where we are now
- Douglas: tagging achieves much of what people want from a conventional file hierarchy
- Chris: existing development thrusts already account for much manpower
- Jean-Marie: even if major requests cannot be satisfied anytime soon, perhaps some palliatives or useful steps may still be achieved, and users may be mollified knowing they are coming
- Will: when does development focus move on from FS?
- Jason: requires some discussion with the community, much FS work yet to be done
- Gus: designed with your (Jason’s?) mental model, so where that fits.
- Jean-Marie: can facilitate sharing of useful scripts, etc. contributed from other sites
- Jason: when Jean-Marie is in, need to review this user feedback and understand what is involved in addressing it
- Gus: thank you to institutes that hosted us, for their hospitality and time
- Jean-Marie: community wants FS and understands that it is a large effort
- Chris: have any other sites tested FS?
- Jason: no, once we have RC1 we should ask LRI, QBI
- Jason: what are the next places to target?
- Jean-Marie: internally, revisit post-PiCLS file; maybe leads from Paris, should follow up with Edinburgh
- Jason: could ask on lists
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Gus:
Update on OME5 Documentation - 15:26 UK
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tickets/diagrams
- Helen: thank you to those who have taken ownership of documentation tickets
- Jason: for Paris showing of FS, requires accompanying documentation
- Helen: someone needs to look through the system administration documentation to see what needs to be changed
- Helen: unclaimed tickets are system administration and pyramid
- Josh: pyramid one is not highest priority, mostly needs diagram
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website infrastructure
- Helen: Andrew will arrange URLs such that develop branch documentation will be available on the website
- Helen: there will be an OME5 page under Products
- Jason: probably need only one “5” in URL
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tickets/diagrams
Glencoe Update - 15:32 UK
- Chris: published a new screen
- Chris: working on text for news items
- Chris: work continues as described last week; performance, searching
- Jason: Glencoe financial year ends May 31st, good growth
Satellite Update (every month) - 15:34 UK
- Jason: on day two in Paris it would be good to show the various aspects of what people have been doing with OMERO, will be writing to PIs soon
Any other business (<5 mins) - 15:36 UK
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Josh: sharing Google doc links with people requesting that they be shared
- Jason: plenty of the information there is sensitive and private to us
- Josh: handle on case-by-case basis, but from outside it can be hard to know what is going on
- Jason: sometimes it is reasonable to send the requester a PDF
- Jason: non-Dundee people can sign off at this point
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Drinks & Dinner Friday 31st May for Scott
- Speedwell / somewhere Italian, around eight people, eat at 7pm
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Lee Kamentsky visit Thursday 30th May
- Joyce: should be here by around 10:00
- Joyce: JBC mezz booked, capacity 40
- Joyce: Lee would like to present in morning on how OMERO can integrate with CellProfiler
- Joyce: plan presentation for 11:00
- Jason: share presentation via WebEx
- Joyce: book table in Garland for lunch
- Jason: announce presentation on CLS-seminars
- Jason: dinner at 19:30
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Josh: sharing Google doc links with people requesting that they be shared
Done 15:50 UK