ABI Meeting minutes 2008-11-05

Last week's action items:

• James is still working on this and is in communication with interested parties.

This week's agenda:

• James raised the question of whether there should be different panels for different tasks.
• James raised the question of how panels are chosen; who chooses them.
• Poul discussed the pros and cons of independent panels for each area; panels can be made up of experts, but lack of overlap could lead to fragmentation of goals.

• Andrew suggested we could use existing decision making models; IETF and W3C examples.

• Poul likes this model.
• James will update and distribute the decision making document.
• There was extensive discussion on how to appoint the oversight or steering panel:
• Vote to appoint?
• Who gets to vote; who decides who gets to vote?
• Poul put forward the idea that the current committee form the oversight group, and that ad-hoc committees are formed as working groups on different areas.
• Randall thought that perhaps the current group represents a working group on CellML core spec, and that the group may need to be changed to reflect a more balanced outlook.
• Andrew raised the question of how does the oversight group choose who replaces members who leave?
• Randall thought that currently there is no need to formalize this process, that decisions can be made when the time comes.
• Andrew's opinion is that a clear process reduces uncertainty and reduces the number of recurring discussions.
• Poul stated that he thinks the two level structure is important.

• Catherine said that Peter is keen for everyone who wants to go to go.
• There was discussion on who is eligible for a grant; this needs to be investigated.
• James said that abstracts should probably be on the subject of work between now and the middle of 2009.

• Catherine said that Abhishek is no longer interested in this.
• James has added Abhishek's ideas to the roadmap.
• Poul will talk to Abhishek about keeping in touch with Sarala.
• Andrew will clear the moderation flag on team@cellml, now that Abhishek knows the purposes of the different lists.

• Nothing on the core spec.
• James has been looking at the Dublin Core tutorials on how to build constrained vocabularies etc.
• Dublin Core seems to have broadened to include: citations, keywords, etc.
• Randall brought up prioritizing the graphing and simulation metadata to bring PCEnv up to date.
• Andrew can work on bringing PCEnv up to date on these metadata.

• Andrew has finished the RDF API; ready to move the metadata handling in PCEnv to the CellML API.
• Ready to improve the graphing and simulation metadata.
• Randall mentioned Andre is very keen to prioritize the Java wrappers.  Can this be balanced with the metadata spec?
• Poul would put the Java wrappers at higher priority.

• Justin is working on the Mac OS X build, using the XUL SDK to avoid building Mozilla on Mac.
• Randall mentioned that this is to pre-empt Firefox 3.1
• Catherine mentioned that Frank Sachse is keen to see a Mac version of PCEnv for teaching purposes.

• Andrew has been fixing minor bugs.
• The RDF API is complete.

• Catherine described the good feedback on the wireframes.
• Gareth is going send out new versions of the wireframes, (with changes according to the feedback so far) to the community for further feedback.
• Content update needs to be done.
• Gareth to select some free stylesheets or skins for Plone, which we can edit to suit our needs.
• We may decide to get some professional opinions from a designer on our in-house design.
• The deadline for the new site is the workshop.

• Catherine curated the Vaseghi  model.
• Catherine, Randall, Justin, James and Andrew have been working on the Pasek 2006 model.

• Tommy has been building tests; Plone objects passed these tests so far.
• Tommy has been working on putting Plone and Mercurial together.
• Catherine asked; is checking for broken links is worth it?
• Randall said that all PMR1 content will be migrated to PMR2 so broken links do need fixing.
• Andrew mentioned the existence of a script for finding broken links.

• Catherine would like a simple "edit documentation and re-expose" workflow for PMR2.

• Catherine asked Andrew about progress on the SBML to CellML prototype; there has been no further work on this.
• James asked about Matt's Plone 3 "proposals" software, for software centre.
• Randall suggested continuing to use the tracker for proposals.