Meeting minutes 2008-10-08
Present: Dougal Cowan, Andrew Miller, Randall Britten, Edmund Crampin, Peter Hunter, Michael Backhaus, Poul Nielsen, James Lawson, Tommy Yu, Justin Marsh, Catherine Lloyd.
Apologies: Peter Schmiedeskamp, Jonna Terkildsen, Mike Cooling, Sarala Dissanayake.
Last week's action items:
1) James to write up a plan/roadmap for the spec, including ideas of who to assign to particular tasks or areas.
- James discussed this extensively at the meeting, summarizing discussions both from the tracker and other communications. A summary of his notes can be found under tracker item 1406.
- There was discussion around the release schedule and targets: Sarala's ontology to probably be part of CellML 2.0 or possibly 1.2; 1.1 to be fixes and minor additions to 1.0 and not a major feature release.
- Andrew suggested "subset" specifications for metadata - smaller specifications for specialized metadata usages rather than a single spec.
- Poul suggested that a note on these "subset" specs be added to tracker item 1406.
- Andrew suggested putting the "core" metadata spec into the CellML spec; probably very basic, and only specifying the use of metadata overall.
- Randall raised the idea of extracting PMR2 curation flags into XML/RDF. Also possibly for revision history.
2) Andrew to create a tracker item and send an email to the discussion list, proposing to finalize the spec.
- Done: tracker item 1406.
3) Dougal to complete the tutorial ready for 0.5 release.
- Done.
4) Tommy to email Poul a copy of the PMR2 paper.
- Done.
5) Everyone to think of ideas for proposals for the NIH grant.
- Poul discussed the main ideas for this grant: These will be summarized in an email to the group.
This week's agenda:
Copyright on the cellml.org site
- James raised the issue of copyright on content on the website.
- It was suggested that for models, a range of licence or copyright options could be provided upon submission.
- Poul supports the idea of a single licence for all models.
Action item 1) James to create a tracker item to discuss copyright issues on the website.
Action item 2) Peter Hunter suggested that James write a relatively detailed roadmap of tasks, with a completion date of the CellML meeting next year. People assigned to tasks should be part of this roadmap.
Forum style web front-end to the mailing list
- James started a discussion on whether people supported the idea of a forum-like front end to the mailing list to be featured on the cellml.org site.
- Randall said that this should go ahead as long as it involves only a small effort.
CellML Spec progress update
- Not much progress since last week.
PCEnv progress update
- Justin has built a release candidate for PCEnv 0.5.
- All PCEnv users should use the RC during the coming week, and report any issues or bugs.
CellML API progress update
- Andrew has finished the parser and data model.
- Andrew is going to test the API for conformance with the W3C guidelines.
- James suggested that other people (For example, Jonathon Cooper) could be kindly convinced to write some documentation for the API.
Update on repository contributions
- James has made a few session files.
PMR2 update
- Tommy has got the Mercurial library to a usable state - almost finished.
- Randall suggested that PMR2 features could be pointed out on a Mercurial mailing list; possibly recruit developers for collaboration.
Updates or additional items
- Peter Hunter enquired on the status of the circadian rhythm models; a package for Albert Goldbeter to write a summary/history of the field around.
- Catherine and James said that they are almost all done; they should be all finished with SVG sessions this week.