[stem-dev] Minutes from STEM Community Call on June 11

["James Kaufman" <jhkauf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Minutes from STEM
Community Call on June 11
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1. Welcome and
introductions. 
   
    Introducing Sekou Remy from IBM Research, Kenya

2. COVID-19 (sars
cov-2) models
   
            Three new sars
cov-2 models, one from Dr. Schwarz (NRL)ONR
   
            Nereyda will
edit the new doc?
   
            
   
            
3. STEM on Cloud
(STEM 5.0). 
   
    update: Branch build is up and running on Eclipse
CI. No target on website yet.
   
    Wayne Beaton told us about new tool to help with
CQ's and identify components in need of clearance.
   
    Work in progress. Going well. Discussion on next
call.
   
    
4. Werner will
coordinate abstracts
   
    Reminder, 
   
    Eclipse Con scheduled for October 19-22 (Virtual
Event). Call for papers deadline is == June 15 == 
   
    Community Day on one of those dates (beginning or
end)
   
               
    
4. New Bugs: 
   
    1) Fix for multiple triggers in auto exp. available
in the auto_exp_fix git branch. 
   
    (need to create bug and test the branch). 
   
    
   
    2) Bug 564213: Intermittent bug (using OpenJDK,Ubuntu).
Investigating. From Stefan, problem usually seen when the plugin 
   
    having the         code
used for the disease model hasn’t been activated yet but the user is correctly
   
    running with the  -loadWorkspacePlugins option.
 This sounds like a race condition, 
   
    perhaps occasionally the plugin isn’t fully loaded
by the time the experiment starts. 
   
    At least that’s a theory.
   
    One temporary workaround would be (if possible) retry
when that error occurs.
   
    CONFIRMED - this is a race condition. Restart works.
   
    see also: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1103435/
   
    
   
    3) Work around for loggers on the wiki. Will look
at updating emitter templates in the model builder to achieve a permanent
fix.
   
    
   
    NEXT STEPS: We will try to fix all three bugs in
the auto_exp_fix branch and merge back.
   
    
   
    4) Build issue - XText version exception. Ahmad will
investigate.
   
               
     
   
               
     
   
               
     
5. Items from
Participants. 
Matthias: Importance
of connecting the epidemiology (eg immunity loss rate) to the genomics
Sekou: Started
working on Malaria. looked at several models. What do modelers and communities
want to know?
Matthias: Next
month will present "FSK-ML (Food Safety Knowledge Markup Language)"
   
            
6. Next Call is
scheduled for Thursday, July 9, at 9AM Pacific Time.


Participants
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Sekou Remy
Jamie
Nereyda
Ahmad
Stefan
Matthias
Kun
Werner