Telco 20160426¶
Date¶
Tuesday, 26th April, 16:30 Central European Summer Time (Copenhagen)
Hangout Link: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/j72qwlvegiojjpt3a36pfhow5ua
Agenda¶
Welcome and agree Agenda
Dectris Eiger JSON format - Andreas to present
github issue of the day - suggestions welcome (there is a github label now), otherwise we pick a random one
http://nexusformat.org main landing page update
list of competing standards
update on research projects
Next meeting
AOB
Minutes¶
Present: AB, AF, EW, HJB, MK, MB, RO, TSR
Dectris Eiger Streaming Format¶
Andreas got up early in the US weat coast and fought admirably against a poor network link in order to provide us with an overview of the Eiger image streaming format. Information can be found here: https://www.dectris.com/eiger.html This all looks good and allows good integration of a detector into local infrastructure. The main worry was that people could write the flat format to file and call this “NeXus light”. That will be addressed in the documentation.
Github Issues¶
NXroot: https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/issues/466 simple to fix, assigned
Missing symbols: https://github.com/nexusformat/code/issues/414 still not understood, but reverted to a state that should have been working, awaiting tests
variable length strings: https://github.com/nexusformat/code/issues/329 is an important issue, but ugly to implement, hence not many volunteers, assigned to Mark K thankfully.
The New Landing Page Project (TNLPP)¶
Some progress, but no demoable prototype. Ray will update at the Telco after the next
Competing standard¶
Compiled a rough list of imgCIF, CXI, Data Exchange, TIFF, EDF, plus things that are worse and more loosely defined.
This was to list them in a overview slide in a presentation on NeXus.
Research Projects¶
Dropped due to lack of time. Will attempt next time.
Next Meeting¶
AOB¶
None. (Out of time.)
