Notes from the STEM Community Call on Thursday, March 3, 2016
On call: Jamie, Stefan, Kun, Matt, Nereyda, Roslyn, Raymond, Judy
Next call: Thursday, April 7th
1. Welcome and introductions: Roslyn Hickson, IBM Australia and Raymond Lara, IBM Manila
2. Status update STEM Version 3.0.2, aka Java 8/Eclipse 4 build
Latest integration build to milestone 3.0.2
*Jamie: Exceptions when updating metadata and website to be resolved
3. Feature requests
Evolving disease model to address genome
*Jamie: Work ongoing
Downloadable example of extended shape file capabilities using a Pajek file
*Jamie: Received from Chris, had problems; will work to resolve
Progress with travel model, travel restrictions and interventions
*Nereyda: Will work on model this month
3. Updates
Possible new feature request for open source map data
*Jamie: EU maps have low res, US maps high res; don’t update unless there’s a reason
Global Biohealth Conference
*Nereyda: Represented IBM STEM team, used slides from Jamie in her presentation; excellent public health forum; many attendees from Latin America; Almaden may attend next year
Zika
*Kun: Still talking about this
*Nereyda: Brazil at Global Biohealth Conference still trying to confirm cases; mild disease; 4 of 5 asymptomatic; correlation with microcephaly unproven at this point
4. Bugs
Bug 465981: Kamesh’s problem with dengue model
New bug: Running headless. Matt to do workaround
New bug [#465981?]: Batch experiment failing when adding decorator
5. Items from participants
Judy: Will continue to send Zika info to Kun
Kun: Workshop with Roslyn and Raymond on STEM and epidemiology ongoing; Jamie: Stress testing current version of STEM
Jamie: Need to schedule update of 3.0.2 in June (still a milestone)
Jamie: May change time to accommodate those in other time zones