STEM Community Call April 18, 2013
On Call: Jamie, Stefan, Kun, Werner, Judy
 
1. V 2.0 Milestone 1 available since Tuesday, April 2 . 
Plan for Milestone 2 on May 2nd; posted on website 
Milestone 1:  On Track: UI, model development workflow, builder tools, xtext, all in STEM 
                Add model generator Feature to STEM-core (with required plugins) 
                Customize Project Explorer (show/hide generated Java code)                             
                                Hot injection of generated plugins 
                                  
Future V 2.0 Release Features to include: 
        Xtext model generator feature   
        Graphical Model Design (GUI for code generation) 
            Bug Fixes from 1.4.1 
            Performance improvements 
            Advanced Dengue Example 
            Stochastic Modeling - need to watch apach.math.commons library   
    
2. New Documentation for 2.0 
        ==== Pubs updated on wiki 
        ==== Updated Upcoming (and recent) talks on main website 
        ==== Use of model generator inside of STEM (vs in the dev environment) 
        **** Added new document Stefan’s new periodic control graph generator 
                
 TO DO (ALL): Post recent/upcoming talks (also publications) on wiki or send to Judy to post   
...we should write a paper on the Compartment Transition Definition Language 
3. GIT transition plan update
Keep item on agenda for discussion when Matt is on the call
===Chris entered bug re HTTPS; BfR firewall blocks GIT 
Matt has discussed w/ Eclipse, received ok    
4. Stefan added documentation for new graph generator to create graph with intervention labels; Judy has reviewed 
5. Bug(s) of the week 
400920 Update: Shape file graph generator is not intuitive 
**Need to work on ui for customizing Configuring .shp import (new feature request) 
Chris: Update on troubles running STEM 2 product; Same issues as before...windows xp, java 6. 
**Matt: Probably OCI loader was getting deadlocked due to something the Almaden team was doing behind the scenes 
 
6. Added item from Jamie: Working w/ China on bird flu
Discussion of latest updates from WHO as to nature of spread 
Jamie: Set to talk w/ them on Friday or Monday
Jamie: Need to pull together two scenarios, two simple draft models; still lack data 
    
6. Items from Participants
Werner: Will put info on Skoll, Global Friends on STEM forum; has proposed talk for June conference in France, will keep all posted
Stefan: New measles model