[VTK ARB] ARB Meeting today 2:30

Andrew Maclean andrew.amaclean at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 18:36:01 EDT 2015


Apologies to all for joining the meeting so late. Unfortunately I slept
through the alarm.

Regards
Andrew

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Will Schroeder <will.schroeder at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Today we have an ARB meeting 2:30-4:00 EDT. We'll have a hangout, and I
> will also dial anyone that sends me their phone number (thanks Ken). You
> can access the hangout from the event link, or try this:
> https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/kitware.com/vtk-arb?authuser=0
> Please connect early and let me know about problems ASAP (use my email) I
> don't want to lose valuable time on logistics issues.
>
> Please note that we have some new ARB members. David Gobbi (Research
> Scientist at Calgary Image Processing and Analysis Centre) and Alejandro
> Ribes (Research Scientist at EDF R&D). We very much appreciate their help
> in this effort. (The complete membership list is here.)
>
> Here is a proposed agenda (which will likely evolve):
> 1. Remote modules (Lorensen)
>    - including generally how to increase community engagement
> 2. Works in progress / Cool new features
>    - VTK-m (Ken Moreland)
>    - Zero-Copy, data model updates (Geveci)
>    - Python 3.0 support (Gobbi, others)
>    - VTK Maintenance - OpenGL2 and interaction efforts (Geveci,Schroeder)
>    - Parallel efforts (vtkSMPTools, OpenMP, etc) (Schroeder,Geveci)
> 3. Release schedule
>    - Philosophical arguments: Backward compatibility & aggressive release
> schedule
>    - v6.3
>    - v7.0
>    - v8.0
>
> We have a lot of material to cover and a lot of smart people with strong
> opinions :-) so I may have to play referee at times to keep us moving -
> it's nothing personal. If we need to, we'll schedule subsequent meetings to
> fully flesh out issues.
>
> We are looking forward to it, and Andrew thanks for getting up at 4:30am.
>
> Best,
> W
>
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