VTK/Meeting Minutes/December 17, 2009

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Examples

Bill and David D. will continue cleaning up examples and move them into the repository. An undergraduate intern could potentially help with this. David D. will do some recruiting. Bill is setting up a clever testing system so the examples can be tested without adding anything to the code.

Junior Jobs (JJ)

A way to mark bugs as "easy to fix" for beginners to get their hands wet. This would be a nice addition to mantis.

Dashboard division

It would be nice to divide the VTK dashboard into sections using the new CDash functionality. This would alleviate the problem of receiving a dashboard error email every time you commit something even if it has nothing to do with your change. Who can implement this?

VTK Journal Repository

Submitting code to the VTK journal is awkward. Adding a sandbox repository or teaching everyone how to use git functionality to "post" code is a good idea.

StackOverflow for VTK

(http://stackoverflow.com/) Enabling a new means of communication to end users may allow us to get feedback from a larger group. This forum-type setting can be moderated by some intermediate level users (David D. volunteered) and problems can be "promoted" to the user or devel mailing list if they are not solved by peer users. This will free up some of the experts time to work on larger issues. Marcus has volunteered to look into this.

VTK Conference/Workshop

Luis mentioned we may be thinking about hosting a workshop/hack-a-thon/camp. Maybe meetings like todays can become a little more regular and we can evolve it into a bigger event with some more outsiders?

Operator Overloading / Matrix package

Marcus and David D. are big fans. It is difficult to implement for objects on the heap. The larger discussion is how much math VTK should include in the toolkit. We already have many many linear algebraic functions - it would nice to provide a real vtkMatrix and vtkVector class which could serve as an interface to these functions as well as provide nice notation/syntax for objects on the stack.

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