Engineering:September 12, 2007

Goals

Catch up on latest developments, set priorities, identify issues. Also brainstorm on competitive renewal.

Plan

One day in Clifton Park.

Boston people can plan for one (somewhat long) day or stay over.

Topics

• review of the needs of the DBPs
  • UNC
  • JHU/Queens
  • MIND
  • Harvard

• Slicer3 release
  • what are roadblocks?
    • crashes?
    • critical functionality?

• Documentation
  • NAMIC Kit Overview
  • Practical Software Process

• Volume rendering in Slicer3

• kwwidgets
  • gui tracing for macros and replay (and for creating tests)?
  • file browser multithreading
  • access to events from scripting languages

• Interactions
  • 3D Widgets
  • Level-of-detail?

• command line modules
  • passing mrml scenes back and forth

• BatchMake interface
  • To MIDAS and other database repositories

• cpack
  • rpm, deb
  • na-mic kit available via standard linux distribution sites?

• Competitive Renewal
  • where do we want to be 7 years from now?
  • what is the state of medical image computing likely to be?
  • what is the state of computing likely to be?

Attendees

Confirmed (please add your name so we can keep count to estimate room size etc):

• Steve, Ron, Nicole, Katie, Will, Dan, Jim