Sept-2009-SlicerWidgetsBrainstorm
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Logistics
- Tentative date: Wednesday and Thursday, September 16 and 17, 2009
- Location: 1249 Boylston Street, 2nd floor conference room
Goals
The purpose of this meeting is to discuss development strategies to migrate Slicer to a new GUI layer. For some background and discussion of our experiments with Qt and a possible development plan see 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?
- How much work have comparable project required (by people with what skills and experience?)
- What resources do we have to devote to this project compared with other demands?
- Are we comfortable that we have considered all the viable alternatives?
- What are the trends in GUI interface development for applications like ours
- What are the risks/benefits/complexity trade offs of various approaches
Things to Consider
Our current plan is to move to QT. However, there are some alternates which should be looked at as a due diligence:
Javascript family
- http://my-trac.assembla.com/protoctk/wiki/WidgetPlans
- http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
- Phyton wrappings around Javascript
Attendance
- Open to all self-declared Slicer developers:
- Will Schroeder
- Steve Pieper
- Ron Kikinis
- Nicole Aucoin
