NIAC2006LBL
NIAC Meeting - October 2006
The next meeting of the NeXus International Advisory
Committee will be held at the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory near San Francisco, California,
USA. The meeting will be held from October 5 to 6, 2006, immediately
following NOBUGS 2006.
List of Attendees
If you are interested in attending (and are not already on the list of
attendees), contact Andrew
Götz.
Start of the Meeting
- You are responsible for your own breakfast and travel to the lab. In
theory there are many people staying at the DoubleTree and the
Durant so carpooling is encouraged.
- Arrive at the badging office and they will give you a visitor badge
and a “blue triangle” parking pass. For those of you without a car
there is a lab shuttle bus that will take you from there to building
two (2).
- We will be starting at 8:30 am (pacific time) in building two (2)
room 100B. This is the biggest room and will be where refreshments
are served.
Agenda
Proposed Agenda Items
- Discuss NeXus collaborating with imgCIF. see MEDSBIO
proposal
- Request institutes from the NeXus community sponsor a full-time
technical secretary for next 12-24 months.
- Institutes that write NeXus files are data providers.. NeXus
provides an interface between data providers and data
requirers. Discuss if the NIAC constitution should be change to
allow data requirers e.g. DANSE to have representation on the NIAC
as a stakeholder that requires NeXus.
- SCAN definition similar to TOFRAW definition
- NXcharacterization needs to be formalized
- Finalize archive definition
Tabled Until Next Time
October 5
- 08:30 Welcome and Introduction
- First buisiness
- Review of NIAC’2006ILL minutes
- Renew members
- Add new members
- Jens-Uwe Hoffmann - Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin
- Paul Kienzle - DANSE
- Triage
- Define missing agenda items
- Vote on things already ready for voting
- Define working groups and divide items
- 09:30 break
- 09:45 Ratify instrument definitions
- 12:00 break for lunch
- 13:00 Ratify instrument definitions
- 15:00 break
- 15:30 split into groups
October 6
- 08:30 Small items (see Roadmap)
- Examine classes for ratification
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- Examine instruments for ratification
Accomodations
LBL has a list of housing in the area:
http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/near-our-shuttle.html
The NOBUGS 2006 conference suggests two hotels:
http://nobugs2006.lbl.gov/index.php?content=Lodging
Room Reservations
For help in locating the buildings with the meeting rooms, please refer
to the http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/lab-site-map.html LBL campus
map.
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room |
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session |
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network |
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projector? |
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10/5 |
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10/6 |
Bldg. 2-100B |
Plenary |
wireless |
no |
7:00 AM to 6:30 PM |
7:00 AM to 6:30 PM |
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Bldg. 6-2202 |
Breakout |
wired |
yes |
12:00 - 6:30 PM |
7:00 AM - 6:30 PM |
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Bldg. 7-211 |
Breakout |
wired |
no |
12:00 - 6:30 PM |
7:00 AM - 6:30 PM |
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Working Groups
API/Technical Issues
- Improving NeXus internal code documention on private structures and
functions. Only API developer needs to know about these, but at the
moment the knowledge is restricted to a few people. The existing
in-code documentation needs to be tidied up and it would be a good
idea if programs such as
Doxygen could
parse it.
- Move from the current CVS (for version
control) / Bugzilla (for bugs/issues)
system to using Subversion /
TRAC. Freddie has set up two sites at
http://svn.nexusformat.org/code
and http://trac.nexusformat.org for
testing
- Move mailing list to nexusformat.org
- Determine location to store definitions
- Design and implement a way to deal with having approved definitions
and a way to modify a working copy on the website
- It would be useful if NeXus could support arrays of strings
- Source and target of a link must have same name
- Java package name should be org.nexusformat
Minutes
Here are the minutes in pdf
format or MS-Word
format.
Photos