STEM Community Call May 5, 2011
On the call: Jamie, Stefan, Matt, Werner, Dirk, Judy 
 
Topics of the Week 
Status of new Earth Science Data plugins (Stefan for Jan)
·         Jan has been working on them, now have 2000-2010
·         New plugs ins are in SDN repository
·         2009 is out of build
·         Include as feature in next release
·         Plan: Post notice on Newsgroup, stem-dev
 
Discussion on STEM ‘features” and proposed repository re-organization (Matt)
·         Matt: Please read the email on stem-dev, postings on newsgroup and comment 
 
Update on Bug 318709, feature request from Matthias: “Develop a report generator for scenarios and simulations” (Jamie)
·         Development of prototype In progress
o   Have decided to use _javascript_ to allow expand/collapse
o   Dirk: Matthias would concur
·         Will send to Matthias for comments
 
Updates from Students
·         No updates
 
Visit to San Jose class working on STEM (Matt)
·         Students doing interesting work, did a good job
·         Visit gave Matt and Jan some ideas
 
Update from Werner on demo
·         Went well, much interest, including some on flu
 
Items from Participants
·         Judy: Proposal for Epidemics 3 due June 30; Jamie/Stefan will prepare
·         Dirk: Is there some way in STEM to create movies for demos when machines might not work? Matt: yes, can capture, a kind of “secret feature” not yet ready for release; will send Dirk info on how to do