2014-01-07 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Kelli, Helen, Kenny, Simon, Gus, Jean-Marie, Mark, Petr, Andrew, Will, June, Chris, Ola, Blazej, Roger Remote: Josh, Seb B, Andreas, Carlos, Seb S, Ian, Douglas, Melissa, Josh B, Curtis
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
4.4.10 Status - 14:29 UK
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5 tickets
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#11876 LDAP issue
- being investigated by Blazej today
- Blazej: Douglas’ setup works okay
- Ola: bug has existed for some time, may need to push fix to 5.0
- Kenny: LSC soon to retire LDAP server, move to AD
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#11876 LDAP issue
- Jean-Marie: using nightshade for testing
- Sebastien: working on CI jobs for release
- Simon to get 4.4.10 server running on gretzky
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5 tickets
Glencoe Update (Chris) - 14:39 UK
- working on screens
- some end-of-month deadlines
- Liza is on maternity leave
Consortium Update (every month) - 14:40 UK
- Douglas: working on 5.0 web plugin issues
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Ian: working on BF5 + FLIMfit, build issues
- Jean-Marie: should meet again in Edinburgh
- Ian: could even come up to Dundee, talk to Petr, Roger, et al.
- Sebastien B: has been working on CI, but would like to test tracking tools on 5.0 production server
Upcoming meetings/conferences review gdoc spreadsheet - 14:45 UK
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1st quarter meetings:
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FOSDEM Brussels
- session accepted
- Blazej: twenty-minute lightning talk
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Debian meeting in Stonehaven, scientific software
- Roger is going, also some Barton group
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Xray Phase-contrast Microscopy Meeting, Germany
- Andrew: probably not worth it, insufficiently relevant
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XML Prague 2014
- Andrew: registration open, too late for papers
- XML + big data stream looks interesting
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PyData conference London
- Simon, Chris: still no agenda posted
- Chris: probably Glencoe attendees
- Simon: interested in going
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Bioimaging 2014, France
- Jean-Marie: large, general meeting; deadlines largely past
- Jean-Marie: probably not worth it, and quite expensive
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Vizbi 2014, Heidelberg
- Will: somewhat useful, though not cheap
- Jean-Marie: virtual attendance possible
- Chris: probably won’t send Glencoe people
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FLOSS UK Brighton
- Jean-Marie: could also visit Alex
- Roger: usually a good meeting
- Chris: rather hardcore
- Jean-Marie: may not be useful for Gus
- Jean-Marie: probably not worth it
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FOSDEM Brussels
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Data Visualisation Crucible Event (Dundee)
- Simon: follow-up to November event
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University of Dundee - College of Life Sciences Research Symposium, Crieff, Scotland
- Andrew: no obvious deadline, but keen to have people register, limited space
- Chris: would be good to register if we plan to go
- Jean-Marie: probably not more than a poster
- Simon: go around with a sign-up sheet for workshops
- Will: whole event is quite an investment of time
- not sure if Jason is attending
- Jason: last year hoped to have short presentation and subsequent workshops
- Jean-Marie: maybe approach similarly to GRE symposium
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CW14 software in research, Oxford
- Douglas: looks interesting, can’t attend, but may send somebody else
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ABRF Albuquerque
- Jean-Marie: will be going, as part of tour of USA
- Jean-Marie: Kevin wanted to run some workshops in Midwest?
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Big Data in Biology
- Douglas: conference is worth a look
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University of Dundee - College of Life Sciences Research Symposium, Crieff, Scotland
- Helen: worth listing meetings with near-term deadlines even if actual meeting is much later
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1st quarter meetings:
Public webclient SSBD Database (Will) - 15:09 UK
- E.g. Dataset 220.
- Public user can create P/D, run scripts (e.g. Batch Image Export -> OME-TIFF) etc.
- Need webgallery.
- Short term solution?
- Ola: regular expressions for URL filter; buttons can be clicked but no deleterious effect
- Jean-Marie: may be worth contacting them
- Ian: would also be interested in a good solution
- Will: can hide scripts from web UI
- Ola: can help to prevent outside access to OMERO server, run web client on different machine
Any other business (<5 mins) - 15:17 UK
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Social media (Kelli)
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expanding social media presence
- including Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+
- Josh B: LinkedIn use of projects, etc.
- first, making Twitter content more frequent and regular
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Jean-Marie: how best to provide content for tweeting?
- Kelli: let me know after stand-ups
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Will: confusing sometimes with “from organization” tweets knowing who is tweeting
- maybe organization best for only certain kinds of content
- Josh B: how to organize team members’ work-related blog posts, etc.?
- Will: tweet summary of any interesting content from weekly team meetings?
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expanding social media presence
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Ian: UK research funding is increasingly entailing access to the actual data produced
- more than just seeing it, need to be able to download it, work with it, etc.
- Sebastien B: next week is Will’s presentation; build system one will follow later
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Social media (Kelli)
Done 15:31 UK