| [stem-dev] Notes from the STEM Community Call on February 4, 2016 |
Notes from the STEM Community Call on Thursday, February 4, 2016 On call: Jamie, Stefan, Matt, Kun, Nereyda, Werner, Judy NEXT CALL: Thursday, March 3, at 9am Pacific time; visitors at Almaden from the Philippines will join in the call 1. STEM Version 3.0.2, aka Java 8/Eclipse 4 build *Available January 20th *Status metadata: Last updated milestone build in October *TO DO-Stefan: Take latest integration build to milestone 3.0.2 *TO DO-Jamie: Update metadata and web *Jamie: Evolving disease model to address genome; possible to directly measure drift on a small scale; may not merge feature into head *Chris: Downloadable example of extended shape file capabilities using a Pajek file; defer to when Chris is on the call *Nereyda: Worked with Jamie on modeling restrictions, interventions; used STEM materials on Youtube; making progress *Not working any other feature requests (see notes from prior calls for list) 3. New items/updates from last call *Jamie: Possible new feature request from Matthias on open source map data; not done *TO DO-Ask Matthias to follow up in German with ‘owner’ *Nereyda: Article on STEM for collaborative online ezine Global Biodefense; accessible at http://globalbiodefense.com/2016/01/28/open-source-disease-modeling-a-tool-to-combat-the-next-pandemic/ *Kun: Working on pilot with China CDC on modeling flu, also with group from the Philippines who will visit Almaden in March
*TO DO-Get Kamesh on call? 5. Items from participants *Judy/All: Breaking news on Zika virus *Nereyda: Will go to the Global Biohealth Conference; travel covered; TO DO-Kun will write to ask for Nereyda’s registration fee to be waived as an invited speaker; TO DO-Jamie will help with slides; TO DO-Kun will update meeting list to include Nereyda *Werner: STEM response to Eclipse shift? TO DO-Matt to explore *Jamie: Getting a few calls about Zika virus; not doing anything yet; perhaps Kun and a colleague in Australia will address |