Engineering:TCON 03 30 2006

Attendees

• Jim Miller, GE
• Steve Pieper, Isomics
• Andy Cedilnik, Kitware
• Sebastien Barre, Kitware
• Mathieu Malaterre, Kitware
• Luis Ibanez, Kitware
• Will Schroeder, Kitware
• Jag Rajendiran, UCLA
• Brendan Faherty, UCSD
• Katie Hayes, BWH
• Nicole Aucoin, BWH

Topics

• April 3-4, 2006: Design Review and Work meeting on Slicer3 (alpha1 release)

Minutes

• Boston Slicer Meeting
  • Preparation for Slicer architecture discussions
    • Undo/Redo functionalities
    • Data Model
    • Execution Model
    • How to call the command line executables ?
      • Modules ?
      • Plugins ?
      • Components ?
    • How to integrate them into slicer ?
      • Slicer discovering the modules ? (predefined search path)
      • Having a "plugins" directory in Slicer installation
      • Slicer should remember which modules have been found.
  • Trade-offs between performance and programming ease
• Transitioning Slicer from VTK 4.0 to 5.0
  • Mathieu reported status (Slicer is compiling and running fine, but producing incorrect results)
• CPack will be in the next version of CMake (Andy reported)
  • Major architectural changes are done.
• Pipeline Integration
  • XML
  • Jags anticipates that the integration will be smooth.
  • Good amount of overlap with the execution model issues
• Polycom conference
  • Would it work with N sites ? (answer seems to be "Yes")
• Work sessions (break-up sessions).