ABI CellML Meeting Minutes, 12th October 2011
DRAFT
Present: Dougal Cowan, Andrew Miller, Alan Garny, David "Andre" Nickerson, Poul Nielsen, Tommy Yu, Randall Britten, Richard Christie, Alan Wu, Caton Little
Last week's action items:
Action item 1: Tommy - announce PMR2 0.4, then Dougal to put up the news item.
- Done.
Action item 2: Dougal - add PMR2 planning item to next meeting agenda.
- Done.
This week's agenda:
1) OpenCOR update
Progress:
- Alan Garny gave an update on the current status of OpenCOR development.
- There is a website with the documentation and links.
- The project is on github.
- The GUI and a number of plugins are working in the fully functional plugin architecture, including a simple raw XML editor, file browser, file organizer, and simulation using CIS. CellML repository access using the JSON/Rest webservices is at a basic proof-of-concept stage and is working well.
Discussion:
- Alan: future plans include Mercurial support, SVG support, cmgui and OpenCMISS integration, OpenCOR "projects" (savable application states), and an analysis plugin aimed at action potentials.
- There was a discussion about possible OpenCOR features and the plugin architecture.
- There was an extensive discussion about C code compilation for model simulation, and alternative approaches to this including generating machine code or use of GPU shaders.
2) PMR2 0.5 planning discussion
- Deferred until next week.
3) CellML website front page
Progress:
- PMR2 0.4 announcement added to news.
4) PMR2 development - update
Progress:
- Tommy: moved to github. Updated page on cellml.org and installation instructions. Did some planning for OAuth and search features.
Discussion:
- There was a discussion about Plone search and how to replace or improve it.
5) Repository contributions - update
- No update.
6) CellML API - update
Progress:
- Andrew: did some work to make the CellML API more usable from C++.
- Proposals: get rid of the need for macros, return standard string, make query interface easier.
- There was a discussion about the free(name) crash reported by Andre.
7) CellML core specs - update
- No update.