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This is our first weekly engineering TCON.

=== Agenda ===

* Image Orientation Update (Bill L)

* Dart 2 Update (Dan)

* Octave/MATLAB Interface from VTK/ITK (Steve)

* NRRD library (Steve)
** reading DWI/tensors files
** eddy current correction and other utils
** lgpl issues

* Adoption of systems to facilitate communications (Ron and Steve)
** VNC (www.realvnc.com)
** Skype (http://www.skype.com/)
** IM
** Others?

* SRB Tunneling

* Who will be able to attend our week long "programmers retreat" in summer (where core 1 students/researchers work with core 2 to finish up their ITK/Slicer contributions for Yr1)? Location TBD between Niskayuna and Boston. Time TBD but please give your constraints. (Tina, except I won't be able to attend the TCON this time, so if you could please leave the info here. Thanks.)
** Pipeline v3 beta will be released by then... does this retreat include Pipeline?

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=== Meeting notes (Dan B.) ===

Attendees: Michael Pan, Bill Lorensen, Xiaodong Tao, Dan Blezek, Jim Miller, Andy Cedlnik, Luis Ibanez, Jeffrey Grethe, Steve Pieper

'''Image Orientation Update (Bill L.)'''

* Embed orientation in itkImage, rather than in the application
* Discussion was carried out on the [http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Proposals:Orientation ITK Wiki]
* Not used by default in registration
* Need to modify readers to populate Orientation, DICOM is finished, NRRD remains to be done

<br />'''Dart2/ctest update (Dan B., Andy C.)'''

* ctest supports submissions to Dart2, support will be added to submit to multiple dashboards
** Will refactor ctest to get global parameters from project source code, rather than from CMake/Dart tcl client
* Game plan:
** Setup [[User:Andy#Dart_2_Submissions|Dart2]] for a given dashboard
** Validate Dart2 against Dart to verify submissions are complete
** Setup Freesurfer and BIRN by 5/05, rather than have them use Dart
** Announce Dart2 to lists at same time

'''Octave/MATLAB interface (Steve P.)'''

* Would like to call Matlab .m scripts on a selected volume from Slicer
** Need to define a consistent interface in the .m, and a standard reader/writer in Matlab
** Matlab is licensed software, and Octave is gpl

'''NRRD library (Steve P.)'''

* Would like to use [http://teem.sourceforge.net/unrrdu/ unu] utilities for some DTI processing
* LGPL
** Is LGPL NAMIC compatable?
** Not possible to get a legal position, as there is no prior rulings
* Need to assemble a list of licenses used in NAMIC, need volunteer

'''Document sharing (Steve P.)'''

* VNC is a good choice, have had a lot of experience with it, can tunnel through GE's firewall
* Skype is not possible, as it's prohibited by GE

'''Lightweight process tools (Bill L.)'''

* Need to look into tools

'''Programmer's retreat (Bill L., Steve P.)'''

* Niskayuna is not best choice, due to logistics
* Logistics of Boston may be better
* Where to hold? @ BWH or in a hotel?
* Pipeline v3 should be ready by June '05 to be released
** Can provide base jar, need to assemble supporting jars
** Would like to create simple processing pipeline, i.e. anisotropic diffusion run on all SRB data
** [[Programmers_Retreat:Scratch|List of Attendees, and schedule conflicts]]

'''SRB Tunneling (Jeff G., Dan B.)'''

* Need to coordinate with Jason to get SRB tunnelling machine at GE
* Dan to follow up with Jason / Jeff / Steve

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