STEM Community Call May 26, 2011
On the call: Stefan, Jan, Chris, Matt, Judy
Topics of the Week
Changes to the finite difference solver
· While working on demographic model in which people age, Chris has implemented changes to make the finite difference solver “more correct” (take smaller time steps)
· Hence doing new integration tests
Adding documentation for equations used by disease models
· Item requested by Matthias
· Working to define new extension point (Dublin core associated with it), link to website on the math behind it, so can see where it comes from, get more documentation
· Will discuss on next week’s call
Comments on Matt’s suggestions for STEM features, repository reorg, etc.; STEM update site now live
· Received, discuss comments from Jamie, Stefan; waiting for Dan to reply
· Essentially more structural than involving the application itself, hence not a prime concern for Bfr team
· Published Earth Science data this week, update site now live
· Next step: splitting up into features
· Matt will prepare proposal on how/what to split into features, post strawman on stem-dev, newsgroup in next day or two, give a week for comments, then put into place
Items from participants
· Matthias: Will do demo @ end of June
Items from Participants
Jan for Matthias: Can a German IBM group partner with Bfr? Need corporate partner to get funding from German government; Matt will tell Jamie, ask him to contact Matthias directly to discuss