STEM Community Call April 6, 2011 
On the call: Jamie, Jan, Matt, Stefan, Bryan, Justin, Werner, Judy
 
Topics of the Week 
New item from Jamie: New Committers Officially Approved by Eclipse 4/6/2011
·         Dirk Reuter, Armin Weiser, and Jan-Frederik Wigger 
New item from Werner: DemoCamps about STEM
·         Just announced on http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Indigo_2011
·         Timeframe late May-June (?)
·         Werner: Will post on Newsgroup and/or stem.dev
·         Jamie: We can supply scenarios for download if we are sure someone will attend
·         Werner: Has registered Matthias’ group for Berlin
·         Jamie: Werner will  let them know they are temporarily registered
Remaining items for Release 1.2 
·         New documentation needed: graphical  editor, automatic experiment, headless build
o   Judy to check To Do’s to ID, confirm status 
o   Need to confirm they show in the contents and in the index
·         List of new plugins: Zest, graphical editor
·         Performance enhancements
New item from Yossi: Release/Release Candidate Process
·         Query: How can we better document changes (new features, new requirements) since the last release? Add a wiki page?  
·         Discussion/Resolution: Matt will carry forward, work with Yossi and Matthias’ group to determine how to do this (include target dates, list plugins, etc.). Intent is to formalize in some way w/o becoming burdensome 
Graphical Editor
·         Item deferred for Jan-Frederick’s input
·         To Do: Stefan will contact Matthias’ group to see if they need more time implement; if so, will change date for release and post
Student Projects: Bryan and Justin
·         Have finished work with the timestamp
·         Can include patch w/ 1.2
·         Next project: work on EMR
·         Stefan: Has prepared tutorial, will send them time for session 4/7/2011; Jan will join
Distributed STEM 
·          Implemented and testing new class for partitioning a STEM graph; results soon
o   Partition a sphere into sections, adjusting size based on density
Update on (Global?) Malaria Model 
·         Stefan: Will be part of 1.2; have discussed with Arik; need to decide on type of model to include, probably latency, 10 year
Processing 10 years of Earth Science Data 
·         Jan: Rain data will be completed today, but smaller than other data sets. Others in 3rd day of processing; has found how to speed up process, cut from 70 seconds to 5
·         Discussion: How to handle? Make available for download? Use feature build? Matt: Can do as a drop in; need to change build process; P2 system would allow
·         Decision: Not for release 1.2, but for 2.0; Matt will explore
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