Meeting on September 20, 2010

Agenda

1. Attendance
2. Announce agenda
3. Approve August 9, 2010 Meeting Notes. Ask for review and address any problems seen in the notes.
4. Google Summer of Code summary
5. Schedule change for v4.5.0
6. 4.4.1 release information
7. Open Questions
8. Summary and closing

Notes

Attendance

• tclarke
• dadkins
• rforehan
• dsulgrov

Summary

The Google Summer of Code was a success. A brief description and links to the final projects were discussed.

Opticks 4.4.1 will have an rc2 but the final release is still on schedule.
Opticks 4.5.0 has been pushed back to November 2, 2010 with a fully tested release about a month later.

Decisions

Logs

2010-09-20T11:04:38 <tclarke> ok, let's begin with attendance
2010-09-20T11:04:38 <tclarke> here
2010-09-20T11:04:39 <dadkins> here
2010-09-20T11:04:40 <rforehan> Here
2010-09-20T11:05:08 <tclarke> just waiting for the last couple of opticks developers to finish off a conversation
2010-09-20T11:08:06 <tclarke> 1. Attendance
2010-09-20T11:08:06 <tclarke> 2. Announce agenda
2010-09-20T11:08:06 <tclarke> 3. Approve August 9, 2010 Meeting Notes. Ask for review and address any problems seen in the notes.
2010-09-20T11:08:06 <tclarke> 4. Google Summer of Code summary
2010-09-20T11:08:06 <tclarke> 5. Schedule change for v4.5.0
2010-09-20T11:08:07 <tclarke> 6. 4.4.1 release information
2010-09-20T11:08:07 <tclarke> 7. Open Questions
2010-09-20T11:08:07 <tclarke> 8. Summary and closing
2010-09-20T11:08:15 <tclarke> for a number of reasons, we haven't had a meeting for a while
2010-09-20T11:08:16 <dsulgrov> here
2010-09-20T11:08:18 <tclarke> here are the notes from last time
2010-09-20T11:08:18 <tclarke> http://opticks.org/confluence/display/opticksChat/August+9%2C+2010+Meeting+Notes
2010-09-20T11:08:23 <tclarke> as usual, please review and correct or report any errors
2010-09-20T11:08:33 <tclarke> Google Summer of Code ended not quite a month ago
2010-09-20T11:08:40 <tclarke> both our students passed and generated som great code
2010-09-20T11:09:07 <tclarke> We have some student who generated from new spectral code: target detection and anomaly detection as well as some code to generate multi-band raster elements from a number of single band raster elements
2010-09-20T11:09:13 <tclarke> his final submission and information is summaried here: http://opticks.org/confluence/display/opticksExt/GSoC+Project+Extension
2010-09-20T11:09:17 <tclarke> take a moment to look it over and try it out
2010-09-20T11:09:32 <tclarke> our other student wrote an extension to do some SAR processing including speckle removal, edge detection, and image segmentation
2010-09-20T11:09:35 <tclarke> a summary page is here: http://opticks.org/confluence/display/opticksExt/SAR+processing+tools+plug-in
2010-09-20T11:09:42 <tclarke> feel free to try out this grear SAR capability
2010-09-20T11:12:03 <tclarke> I think SoC was a success for us this year and I suspect we'll apply to participate again next year
2010-09-20T11:12:15 <tclarke> thank to the other mentors (kip, michael, and nate) and everyone else who made this a success
2010-09-20T11:12:19 <tclarke> next item is the 4.5.0 release
2010-09-20T11:12:32 <tclarke> the scheduled release date has been pushed back
2010-09-20T11:12:45 <tclarke> the initial 4.5.0 release will be avilable for testing November 2 of this year with an official release one month later
2010-09-20T11:12:53 <tclarke> you can see what is scheduled for 4.5.0 here https://issues.ballforge.net/jira/browse/OPTICKS/fixforversion/10502
2010-09-20T11:14:08 <tclarke> any other information on upcoming releases?
2010-09-20T11:14:17 <tclarke> ok, 4.4.1 is in testing right now
2010-09-20T11:14:29 <tclarke> we've identified an issue which will result in 4.4.1rc2 but the final 4.4.1 is still on schedule at this point
2010-09-20T11:14:42 <tclarke> keep an eye on the mailing list and news page for release notes, etc.
2010-09-20T11:14:48 <tclarke> that's all the agenda items for now, any open discussion?
2010-09-20T11:15:05 <tclarke> ok, that will be all for the meeting then, next meeting in 2 weeks
2010-09-20T11:16:13 <tclarke> watch the mailing list for an agenda and notes for this meeting
2010-09-20T11:16:14 <tclarke> we're adjourned