2015-04-28 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Jean-Marie, Kenny, Petr, Gus, Dominik, Mark, Will, Kelli, Helen, Balaji, Roger, Simon, Chris, June Remote: Sebastien B, Colin, Douglas, Josh M, Eleanor, Melissa, Mark H, Curtis, Jason, Stick, Wilma, Ian
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)
Core (incl. CI & QA) - 14:30 UK
- 5.1.1-rc1 tested Monday (Petr)
- 5.1.1 ongoing. Board review on XXX ← it’s DONE!
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5.1.2 scoping, keeping papers and Paris in mind
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Josh: 5.1.2 looks rather large, so on priorities list created column for cards proposed to move to later
- Jean-Marie: please add a note where a 5.1.2 item looks too much to fit in
- Josh: also note Paris work on other board
- Jean-Marie: will start moving some tickets later in the week, and workshop preparation takes time
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Josh: 5.1.2 looks rather large, so on priorities list created column for cards proposed to move to later
Paris update - 14:34 UK
- Jean-Marie: expect some adjustment for the lightning talks recently invited on list
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Jean-Marie: could use these weekly team meetings for workshop presentation rehearsal
- may need to use other days also or two in a week, to fit all in before Paris
- Colin: okay to do import workshop presentation for next week’s meeting
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Jason: have draft presentation together for all workshops on the Trello card by May 15
- to be reviewed that following week for last edits for another run-through at end of May
- Curtis: would be helpful to be able to batch people to schedule, to avoid repeating many times
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June: sorting out fifth speaker
- Jason: any ideas for interesting speakers, tell us now
Glencoe Update (Chris) - 14:45 UK
- OMERO.web performance PRs still in progress (for many images, wells, fields)
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speak up about any further issues getting screening data
- Josh: can get HDF5 for screens?
- Chris: should be okay
- Chris: also informal documentation exists for how data from original spreadsheets was translated into OMERO
Repositories - 14:49 UK
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Virtual Microscope/teaching
- Gus: Jason replied to the Scottish Dentistry thread
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IDR Project
- Hardware has arrived
- Data slowly going in
- JCB Rad52 feature+data test
- Jason: notes from conversation at EBI in IDR folder on gdrive (FYI)
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Virtual Microscope/teaching
FLIMfit/OPT (Ian) - 14:53 UK
- Bug reports slowly filtering in. Seem to be realistic.
- J-m: planning release before Paris? Would like to have a 4.8.1 if the embarrassing bugs can be fixed. 5.1.1 support is on the backburner due to the bugs.
Bio-Formats large file sets (Sebastien B) - 14:54 UK
- nothing further
Other consortium timelines (5 minutes) - 14:54 UK
- Curtis: updated version of ImageJ OMERO on the update site, further progress coming
- Douglas: will be backporting webtagging for 5.0
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled) - 14:56 UK
- nothing
Social Media status update (Kelli) - 14:56 UK
- see presentation
- Curtis: uses Google+ for professional stuff; automated content sharing may enable low-effort Google+
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Jean-Marie: strategies for increasing followers?
- Kelli: Twitter steadily increasing, looking at how to do better still with Facebook, LinkedIn
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Will: if a PR is merged that delivers something people have wanted, worth mentioning
- Chris: importance of good PR description, screenshots, conversation in the comments, etc.; content can be interesting for other software developers; also benefits OME team
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Jean-Marie: could also expose work earlier, e.g., scoping documents; might benefit from outside ideas
- Helen: on the list for the blog
- Chris: cautious about exposing internal preliminary discussion, but could be good for chosen items in an environment we control
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Chris: good social media progress can be ascribed to some kinds of content (and kinds of followers?) more than others?
- Kelli: many retweets, etc. can be from random, lighter things; though, it is hard to tell, no obvious patterns yet emerging
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Chris: how well does social media outreach bring users to other resources, e.g., the website?
- Kelli: so far, hard to tell, partly because we don’t have the usual feedback through a sales team
- Jason: also wondered if other handles for separate streams of content would be good for reaching different communities, e.g., a software-developer-focused one
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Roger: more contributions to blog from team? Initial posts have been careful high-effort ones.
- Kelli/Helen: good idea
- Will: could source existing material for story of a feature from design to production
- Roger: the Travis blog may be a good model, even includes initial discussion of things later abandoned
- Chris: note that all this takes actual sustained effort
- Helen: PRs against blog repository welcome
Done 15:24 UK