STEM Community Call July 9, 2015
On call: Jamie, Kun, Matthias, Stefan, Werner, Nereyda, Judy
 
Next call: Thursday, August 6, 2015  
 
1. Release status: Jamie
·         Target date for Version 2.0.4 will be set once Matt Davis returns August 3
·         Milestone 1 for Version 3 set for October 21; making progress with Eclipse 4 and build for Java 8
 
2. 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]
 
3.  Bugs
·         Bug 465981. Dengue model, Kamesh’s bug, problem modifying value of one parameter, re-initializing scenario; problem with STEM or scenario? Problem with logger when running STEM headless? 
o   Stefan: Plans in place; can reproduce, first will rerun existing scenario, then move to next issue
·          Bug 465838. Graph editor, posted by Matthias. “Save graph as” and “save graph” don’t work. Migration history doesn’t show
o   Matthias: Plans in place; Chris work on this in August
                            
4. Updates   
- Jamie: When STEM 3/Java 8 is released, will have some aspects from Eclipse 3; need someone with expertise on Eclipse 4 to advise on what in STEM to focus on first, etc.
- Werner: Knows someone from start-up firm who might be able to help; will introduce to Jamie 
 
5. Items from Participants  
- Kun: Will be in China next week, giving workshop near Hong Kong on using STEM; will be joined by Kamesh (IBM India) who did work on dengue for Singapore; host responding to dengue outbreak last year
- Werner: Like emphasis on images on wiki page; interested in possible plans for EclipseCon Europe 
- Matthias: Poster accepted for the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference in Chicago this fall
- Kun, Stefan will attend
- TO DO: Add to STEM publications listed on web