| [stem-dev] Notes from the November STEM Community Call |
The next STEM call will be on November 5, 2015, the first Thursday of the month. ----------------- STEM Community Call, Thursday, October 1, 2015 On the call: Jamie, Matthias, Kun, Nereyda, Judy 1. Java 8/Eclipse 4 build now uploaded on website (aka STEM/LUNA build) *Matt will label as new milestone build next week (currently not labeled as such) *No new functionality, but works with Java 8 and Windows 8 machines *One minor bug so far but not problematic *Core STEM community asked to test, report any bugs *Will retain 2.3.3 to avoid disruption of ongoing work *Not yet determined when to abandon earlier versions 2. Feature request updates: DEFER ALL UNTIL MIGRATION TO JAVA 8 AND LUNA COMPLETED [Restricting air travel for certain compartments; New plug in to measure poverty; Plug in for roads in Africa; Batch to control sequencer; Log automated experiments (?); Modify sequencer to get automatic experiments to run batch] 3. Bugs Bug 465981 Pending. Dengue model, Kamesh’s bug with running experiments *Kun: Kamessh has sent whole package, will work with Jamie to determine problem *Jamie: Problem may be Kamesh’s file structure for storing runs *Will during November call 4. Updates on China trip Main event: Opening of the Mars Corporations Food Safety Lab there Also work with Shenzhen CDC *IBM China Research Lab helped get level 3 map (kml file) of part of China *Jamie put into STEM, found that doc on using shape file needs updating *Perhaps need to add feature request to extend capabilities *Reps from China CDC, IBM Research Lab may visit Almaden for training 5. Items from participants Matthias/BfR: Biggest topic now is community proven food safety model *Adapted SDML language, extended lab-based repository *Encoded equations into software independent language *Main focus is on metagenomics for food safety (less on STEM) *Have relationships with Food Safety Institute in China, do training there *Jamie and Matthias to discuss possible synergies |