2014-01-21 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Kenny, Gus, Ola, Emil, Andrew, Petr, Will, Colin, Mark, Balaji, Blazej, June, Jean-Marie, Chris, Simon Remote: Josh M, Andreas, Carlos, Josh B, Mark H, Melissa, Seb B, Douglas, Ian, Roger, Wilma, Seb S, Kelli
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
5.0.0 Status/Testing Update - 14:27 UK
- not many / alarming test failures
- priority to resolve remaining tickets
- Paulo said upgrade went fine (one burp)
- Ola upgraded two systems in Dundee (from alpha); all ok
- Douglas upgrade several; fine
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Petr: about to switch to Squash, but depends on Kenny’s availability
- so probably not in time for 5.0.0
- a Squash server would be nice
- Seb: RC2 ETA? J-M: Not yet. Look at tickets in a couple of days and possible squash.
Glencoe Update (Chris) - 14:35 UK
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publication of 201308062 (9th screen)
- screen-screen linkage
- linkages to model organism databases (flybase, etc.)
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returning to prior projects, e.g., Andreas’ tagging work, Sam’s caching work
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prototypes coming, for UX discussion
- soon paper.js work on ROIs
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prototypes coming, for UX discussion
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publication of 201308062 (9th screen)
Consortium Update - 14:40 UK
- Ian: working on file loading with bio-formats; big performance problems
- teaching time table? Later today.
- Simon: hopefully get OMERO.searcher out with 5.0.0 release
- Sebastien: WebFigure + tagging deployment on howe (dev_4_4), other branches coming
Upcoming meetings/conferences/outreach visits - 14:45 UK
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Jean-Marie: interest in a few training meetings, mostly in UK
- will organize, and status in gdoc Training folder
- FOSDEM next week
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Jean-Marie: interest in a few training meetings, mostly in UK
Report on P Felts Virtual Microscope for teaching - Ola & Gus - slides - 14:47 UK
- generally positive reviews from students
- is now using OMERO 5 line
- students 50/50 split between tablets and laptops
- screen realty
- various ROI requirements
- pop-up tutorial on first use
- students’ examination scores were higher if they used the virtual microscope
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trying to convince medical school to use it everywhere (and then nationally)
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interest from consultants at Ninewells
- especially, sharing rare pathology material with other institutions
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interest from consultants at Ninewells
- good support from Paul
- intent: build learning library (rather than vanilla OMERO)
Trello boards report (Josh) - 15:06 UK
- https://trello.com/b/fMigu9la/priorities-list reviewed. See "Proposed for 2014" label (yellow)
- Presentation in 2 weeks? Separate demo as we did with git?
- Partner project boards have partner-project-specific cards, not cards that affect OMERO in general
- Helen’s documentation cards will go to the UX board
- Discussion with Jason at 1600
Any other business (<5 mins) - 15:16 UK
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Geoff Barton's e-mail instructing CB division annual leave to be reported to CB-Admin
- necessary for Dundee team members? No - June will handle as previously
- Douglas: radio mic seemed great improvement
- Sebastien B coming to Dundee next week
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Geoff Barton's e-mail instructing CB division annual leave to be reported to CB-Admin
Done 15:21 UK