[Insight-developers] NLM Meeting: Draft of agenda for Tuesday Oct 8

[Luis Ibanez]

Ok,
Rearranging the agenda from what was originally announced...

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October 8 - Lister Hill Auditorium - Users and Developers groups
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9:00am - Welcome and Introduction - (Yoo)

9:15am - ITK Tutorial  - (Lorensen/Ibanez)
               Getting started
               How to find what you're looking for?
               How to run and modify existing examples?

10:15 -  break
10:30 -  Feedback session - (Yoo, Lorensen, Schroeder)
               What do people need?
               What are new developers going to work on?
               Who should meet whom?
               Feedback from the users.

12:00  Lunch

 1:00  -  Developers meeting / Refactoring Issues

  -  Rework the registration framework a to handle large
     number of parameters, reduce or eliminate copying of
     parameters

  -  Non-Image DataObjects in the Pipeline
     e.g. Transforms, Scalars, Vectors.
     Transforming Registration into Filters

 -   Supporting 3D / 2D in the same pipeline
     e.g. 3D/2D registration

 -   Refactoring the itk::Mesh

 -   Discussion on Statistical Methods  
     Image versus image/list/histo  based methods

 -   Multithreading & Exceptions

2:30 Break

2:45 Reorganization of the ITK tree

  -  Experimentals build time.... any way to reduce it ?

  -  Relocating Validation Code / Data / Documents

  -  Organize Application + Validation  checkout so that
     they can be set in the same ITK tree. In order to
     keep using a single Dashboard.

  -  Reorganizaing Examples directory & creating an
     Applications Checkout Module.
     Another Dashboard ? A separate section ?

4:00 Supporting Users

   - Tutorial in InsightDocuments
   - IEEE Visualization Tutorial
   - SPIE 2003 Tutorial

   - Mailing list experiences  (Do's and Don'ts)

   - Adding test images to the ftp data repository.
     (mainly to provide full working examples to
     users).   Include sythetic images like a binary
     sphere, tubes,...

   - Updating Examples HTML pages

   - Page about known Compiler problems
     to warn users.
 
 5:00 End