| [stem-dev] Notes from the April 9th STEM Community Call |
STEM Community Call April 9, 2015 On call: Jamie, Stefan, Kun, Chris, Nereyda, Judy Next call: Thursday, May 7, 2015 1. Release status updates · Version 2.0.4 scheduled for May 12, to include fix units now wrong on beta (minor) · Date for Milestone 1 for Version 3 to be determined · Making progress with Luna (Eclipse 4.x) and Java 8; build process now working but has a bug o Bug occurs with the model builder; can change the nature of the object o Current version of STEM uses Java 6, Eclipse 3; Eclipse 3 and Java 8 are not compatible 2. Updates Kun * Attended conference on neglected tropical diseases in London Maybe only one there doing modeling Other attendees had hands-on empirical data from the field As panelist, was asked about STEM, how we use it * Attended conference in Barcelona sponsored by the European CDC and WHO Had poster on dengue Lots of interest; PhD student from Sweden took Kun’s poster back to her university * Gave 3 hour presentation with Kamesh (IBM India) on dengue to Chinese province’s CDC 2014 outbreak in province in southern part of China, also SE Asia Heavy rainfall, high temperatures last year; reported five-fold increase in mosquito vector YouTube is blocked in China, so Kun uploaded STEM videos to a media streaming service in China STEM malaria and dengue papers are being translated into Chinese Nereyda * Currently no problems; one query re mortality rate—what does a 50% rate mean? Jamie: 50% rate = 0.05/day or 0.5 over 10 days Is taking notes that she’ll contribute later Stefan * Gave 30 minute presentation at Eclipsecon with Kun; well received Part 1: Stefan gave overview of STEM, model builder, etc. Part 2: Kun presented on Ebola, wiki * IBMer there forming Science Group wants STEM to join Jamie: Science ok, but will NOT change our URLs 3. Feature Request Updates: DEFER ALL UNTIL MIGRATION TO JAVA 8 AND LUNA COMPLETED [Restricting air travel for certain compartments; New plug in to measure poverty; Plug in for roads in Africa; Batch to control sequencer; Log automated experiments (?); Modify sequencer to get automatic experiments to run batch] 4. Java 8 compatibility/support and Eclipse 4.x (Luna): TOP PRIORITY See item 1. · Two Handler s don’t seem to be needed 5. Bugs. See items 1 and 4 above 6. TO DO’s Jamie: Create new wiki page on Epidemiological Parameters Kun: Upload slides from talk, put link on wiki Chris: Get Luna branch, launch model builder, identify bug; follow up |