View source for Sept-2009-SlicerWidgetsBrainstorm

*Location: 1249 Boylston Street
*Attendance (People actively involved in Slicer GUI development and use are encouraged to attend and contribute):
#Will Schroeder
#Steve Pieper
#Ron Kikinis

== Goals ==

The purpose of this meeting is to discuss development strategies to migrate Slicer to a new GUI layer.  For some background see [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Qt_in_Slicer3 here].  

Important questions to consider at this meeting are:
* What functionality does the application need to have in order to accomplish the needs of our DBP and clinical collaborations over the next several years?
* What look and feel should the application have?
* What capabilities will help us build the community of developers and users
** Standard tools - well supported with ample documentation, support, etc
** Flexibility to run in many environments
** Ease of use and productivity for developers
* Can we get a realistic estimate of the workload required and what skills are required to do the work?
* Are we comfortable that we have considered all the viable alternatives?