STEM Community Call April 25, 2013
On Call: Jamie, Stefan, Kun, Chris, Alex, Judy
  
1. V 2.0 Milestone 1 available Tuesday, April 2 
Plan for Milestone 2 on May 2nd as on website: still on 
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 documentation for Stefan’s new periodic control graph generator 
        ==== Documentation for MMR model  
        ==== Shape file graph generator - need new screenshot on wiki (Stefan to send to Jamie to put up 
                
 TO DO (ALL): Please 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. H7N9 Model status and Update from China: Jamie 
Stefan & Kun have built two models, one bird-to-bird, one bird-to-human
Question: How would human-to-human be different?
Question: How long does it take a chicken to recover from the flu? Alex will ask Yvette
4. Discussion/Description of new measles model: Stefan 
Working w/ researchers in Britain, using Chris’s mechanism for an aging population in an SEIR model
Introducing new compartments for (1) newborns w/ maternal immunity and (2) newly vaccinated    individuals who have not yet built up immunities (takes several weeks)  
5. GIT transition plan update 
===Chris: Works ok with HTTPS 
=== We can proceed when ready 
===Update on migration plan when Matt is back 
6. Bug(s) of the week 
400920 Update: Shape file graph generator is not intuitive 
Can now import multiple populations, have made more intuitive; need new screenshot on wiki 
405549 Chris: Update on troubles running STEM 2 product; same issues as before...windows xp, java 6. Two machines - does not have admin rights on either 
** Matt: Probably OCI loader deadlocked due to something the Almaden team was doing behind the scenes 
** Did we respond to user with Uganda Shapefile bug? 
** New user in India (Pandit) in India ran ok following query/response, hopes to join call in future