Meet Ups

1000 UTC 2nd May 2010

A more South Asia friendly meeting time!

2300 UTC 2nd May 2010 (4pm PDT)

Parallel to the SSF Annual Meeting. Hopefully there will a few people at the meeting who can jump on IRC and keep us updated virtually!

0600 UTC 17th April 2010

Agenda

• Introductions
• Open
  • Wiki - How can we make it better?
  • (please enter your questions or what you would like to share/discuss here)
  • Say I have an arbitrary SQL query involving multiple tables. I would like to hand it to the database, then be able to use the result, e.g. as a view. (I don't necessarily just want to display this as a list in a form -- it might be an intermediate step in business logic.) How do I 1) get the query executed? 2) access the result? 3) use it in a form?
  • Are we still interested in a Work Out? Date? What outputs should we try to achieve?
  • New name.
• Follow-Up Activities

Outcomes

• Pat raised a good question about SQL queries, which has since kicked off it’s own email thread.
• Robby and Gavin had a good discussion about how the survey tool could be extended to share data in EDXL messages. This is probably beyond the scope of a GSOC project, but good to keep in mind for the design.
• Michael suggested using S3XRC for Shikhark’s importer project in order to enforce data validation.
• Documentation
  • Praneeth recommended that code is “scrubbed” and has better comments and doc-strings.
  • Gavin commented that there were too many links.
  • There was a request for better basic documentation on BZR
  • Revision of documentation is best to wait until the SFF has decided on standard infrastructure.
• It was agreed that it would be good for people to email this list to inform the community what they were working on
  • Weekly emails are possibly excessive for volunteers, but will be required from GSOC students.
  • Definitely notify the list when you add new features
  • Notify the list when you start, complete or give up on projects. This will hopefully increase collaboration and reduce overlap.