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CTK-Hackfest-Nov-2014

2014-08-21T18:25:40Z

Michael: /* Attendees */

== Event pictures ==

=== Progress ===

== Introduction ==

'''Date:''' November 3-7, 2014

'''Location:'''

German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

More details to follow.

'''Goal:''' A follow on to the [[Commontk:Current_events#Past_events|wildly successful previous hackfests!]]

'''Requirements:''' Attendees must be willing to spend their time during the event writing ctk code that contributes to the main [[CTK-Roadmap | ctk roadmap]]. This means spending the week immersed in C++, Qt, DCMTK, CMake, and related technologies. People who do not feel qualified for this task are politely not invited :)

'''Group size:''' Maximum 20 participants so we can have a manageable working meeting. The organizing committee will invite and select participants based on input from [[TheTeam]].

'''Site Hosts:''' Marco Nolden, Sascha Zelzer, Ivo Wolf

'''Organizing Committee:''' Steve Pieper, Ivo Wolf, Stephen Aylward

'''Future Events:''' Future hackfests will be announced in advance, and we hope lots of people will be interested in participating. The venue and activities at future hackfests will be determined based on the number of active participants in the project. We welcome participation via the CTK email lists, the source code repository, and this website.

== Attendees ==

* So far we have received confirmation for the following people (in no particular order).

Please fill in your intentions in terms of common accommodation.

{|class="wikitable alternance" style="text-align:left; border:1px solid black;"
|+ '''''Participants'''''
|-
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Name
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Organization
|-
|Marco Nolden
|German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
|-
|Sascha Zelzer
|German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
|-
|Andreas Fetzer
|German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
|-
|Ivo Wolf
|Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany
|-
|Steve Pieper
|Isomics, Inc., USA
|-
|Michael Onken
|Open Connections GmbH / OFFIS
|-
|}

{|class="wikitable alternance" style="text-align:left; border:1px solid black;"
|+ '''''Google Hangout Participants'''''
|-
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Name
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Organization
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Availablity (Central European Time)
|-
|}



{{Note}}There were also other invitations sent to active people on the community, and people who recently showed interest. When their intent will be known they will be added to the list.

== Preparation ==

Developers should bring a laptop with the [http://github.com/commontk/CTK current CTK source code] downloaded and [[Build_Instructions|built]].

Use the [http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ctk-developers CTK developers mailing list] to discuss build issues and topics for ongoing work.

Phone conferences have been scheduled in the weeks leading to the event:
* To be announced

== Topics and Projects ==

Consider reading [http://www.commontk.org/index.php/Contributing_to_CTK#Integrate_your_new_feature Contributing_to_CTK#Integrate_your_new_feature]

Reminder: when integrating branches, remember to use --log --no-ff when merging.

== Agenda ==

==== Monday ====

==== Tuesday ====

==== Wednesday ====

==== Thursday ====

==== Friday ====

== Travel & Hotel ==

===Local contacts===

* Marco Nolden (m.nolden@dkfz-heidelberg.de)
* Sascha Zelzer (s.zelzer@dkfz-heidelberg.de)
* Andreas Fetzer (a.fetzer@dkfz-heidelberg.de)

===Transportation===

===Lodging===

===Weather===

November is a rather wet month. [http://www.weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-Rainfall-Temperature-Sunshine,heidelberg,Germany Average weather in Heidelberg]

===Food===

Plan on having breakfast at your hotel before the meeting. Please email the organizers if you have any allergies or dietary restrictions.

Being a university and hospital campus, there are several lunch possibilities, including cafeterias, a students mensa, and two restaurants.

===Optional Activities in the Area===

CTK-Hackfest-Nov-2013

2013-11-04T13:48:34Z

Michael: Added Michael Onken's skype contact

== Introduction ==

'''Date:''' Nov 4-8, 2013

'''Location:'''

Room 1.19 (Monday, Friday) and Room 2.14 (other days)
Malet Place Engineering Building, University College London.

[[#location|How to get here.]]

'''Goal:''' A follow on to the [[Commontk:Current_events#Past_events|wildly successful previous hackfests!]]

'''Requirements:''' Attendees must be willing to spend their time during the event writing ctk code that contributes to the main [[CTK-Roadmap | ctk roadmap]]. This means spending the week immersed in C++, Qt, DCMTK, CMake, and related technologies. People who do not feel qualified for this task are politely not invited :)

'''Group size:''' Maximum 20 participants so we can have a manageable working meeting. The organizing committee will invite and select participants based on input from [[TheTeam]].

'''Site Hosts:''' Matt Clarkson (m.clarkson@ucl.ac.uk), Miklos Espak (m.espak@ucl.ac.uk)

'''Organizing Committee:''' (need to ask people)

'''Future Events:''' Future hackfests will be announced in advance, and we hope lots of people will be interested in participating. The venue and activities at future hackfests will be determined based on the number of active participants in the project. We welcome participation via the CTK email lists, the source code repository, and this website.

== Attendees ==

* So far we have received confirmation for the following people (in no particular order).

Please fill in your intentions in terms of common accommodation.

{|class="wikitable alternance" style="text-align:left; border:1px solid black;"
|+ '''''Participants'''''
|-
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Name
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Organization
|-
|Matt Clarkson
|University College London, UK.
|-
|Miklos Espak
|University College London, UK.
|-
|Nicolas Toussaint
|University College London, UK.
|-
|Marco Nolden
|German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
|-
|Sascha Zelzer
|German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
|-
|Andreas Fetzer
|German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
|-
|Steve Pieper
|Isomics, Inc. Cambridge, USA.
|-
|Florian Vichot
|INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
|-
|Ivo Wolf
|Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany
|-
| Ernesto Coto
| University of Sheffield, UK.
|-
|}

{|class="wikitable alternance" style="text-align:left; border:1px solid black;"
|+ '''''Google Hangout Participants'''''
|-
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Name
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Organization
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Availablity (London time)
|-
|Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
|Kitware Inc, North Carolina, USA
| 1pm to 6pm
|-
|Michael Onken (planned)
|OFFIS, Germany.
| as needed. Skype: "michaeloffis"
|-
|Csaba Pinter
|Queen's University, Kingston, ON
| TBD
|-
|}



{{Note}}There were also other invitations sent to active people on the community, and people who recently showed interest. When their intent will be known they will be added to the list.

== Preparation ==

Developers should bring a laptop with the [http://github.com/commontk/CTK current CTK source code] downloaded and [[Build_Instructions|built]].

Use the [http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ctk-developers CTK developers mailing list] to discuss build issues and topics for ongoing work.

Phone conferences have been scheduled in the weeks leading to the event:
* To be announced

== Topics and Projects ==

=== XNAT Library ===

Interested people: Miklos, Nicolas, Florian, Ivo, Sascha

* Stabilize API and make it more robust
* Merge to master

Open topics

* Error handling (Miklos)
* Timeout handling (Miklos)
* Unit tests for ctkXnatCore
* Zip support (Sascha)
* Up/Download support in the API (Sascha / Miklos)
* SSL support (ask about disabling SSL) (Florian?)
* Support browsing files attached to assessments
* General API review (Sascha, Miklos, Ivo, Florian)
* Add API documentation

=== CLI Library ===

Florian, Sascha, Ernesto, Steve, Marco

Open Topics

* Add a CTK "test" for validating the XML of external CLIs
** Maybe a "web service" for quickly validating the XML files
* CTK should become the official CTK schema hosting site
* Default values for some elements are problematic (e.g. for SpinBox)
** Have a best practices document how to handle optional default values
* CLIs depending on external dependencies (shared libraries) are problematic
** Probably nothing we can solve inside CTK
* The UiLoader should be more customizable (JC did that in a branch for the Slicer integration)
* Maybe have a way to check for long running modules during the XML retrieval and cancel them (more of a developer thing)
* Add a method for clearing the XML cache (probably in ctkCmdLineModuleManager)
* Having a new web services front-end could be interesting

Discussion

* Make GIMIAS CLI modules work with the ctkCmdLineModuleExplorer (Ernesto)

=== DICOM Application Hosting ===

Ivo, Sascha

=== DICOM Libraries ===

Andreas, Steve

* Improve and finish the widgets
* DICOM Database backend (Marco, Steve)

=== CTK packaging ===

Marco, Sascha

* continue Debian packaging support

=== General Discussion ===

* Create support for CLI Web Services in CTK?
* Could we make CLI modules run in Osirix?

== Agenda ==

==== Monday ====

Opening discussion
* Review topics and projects
* Plans for the week
* Review [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues?state=open open issues on github].

Evening:

==== Tuesday ====

During the day: hack, hack, hack...

15:00 Google Hangout with US and other participants

* Talk about DCMTK_DIR ([https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues/382 Issue 382])

Evening:

==== Wednesday ====

10:00 Roadmap discussion

During the day: hack, hack, hack...

Evening:

==== Thursday ====

During the day: hack, hack, hack...

Evening:

==== Friday ====

During the day: hack, hack, hack...

Late morning; Closing discussion

Afternoon: hack or travel



== Travel & Hotel ==

'''Local contact'''

Need any help in organizing your visit, contact Miklos Espak (m.espak@ucl.ac.uk).
If you have any troubles during your visit, call +44 792 6656 927.

'''Transportation'''

[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/public-transport How to get to the UCL.]

'''Lodging'''

Hotels in central London can be expensive, this one seems reasonably priced:

* [http://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/tavistock The Tavistock Hotel]

<div id="location">'''Meeting Location'''</div>

Malet Place Engineering Building, University College London
[http://goo.gl/maps/2encP]

Monday and Friday: room 1.19
Other days: room 2.14

The reception is at the '''Engineering Front Building''' right at the gate, so please come there and refer to the CTK hackfest.

[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps UCL Bloomsbury campus map]

[http://crf.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ UCL campus route finder]

'''Weather'''

Daily temperature will be around 12-15C (53-59F), mostly dry, light rain is possible some days.

'''Food'''

Plan on having breakfast at your hotel before the meeting. Please email the organizers if you have any allergies or dietary restrictions.

CTK-Hackfest-Nov-2013

2013-06-18T09:44:15Z

Michael: /* Attendees */ I plan to attend this time ;)

== Event pictures ==

Images from the hackfest
<gallery widths=300 px heights=200px perrow=3>
</gallery>

Social programs

<gallery widths=150 px heights=100px perrow=4>
</gallery>

== Introduction ==

'''Date:''' Nov 4-8, 2013

'''Location:''' [http://goo.gl/maps/2encP]. Room 2.14, Malet Place Engineering Building, University College London.

'''Goal:''' A follow on to the [[Commontk:Current_events#Past_events|wildly successful previous hackfests!]]

'''Requirements:''' Attendees must be willing to spend their time during the event writing ctk code that contributes to the main [[CTK-Roadmap | ctk roadmap]]. This means spending the week immersed in C++, Qt, DCMTK, CMake, and related technologies. People who do not feel qualified for this task are politely not invited :)

'''Group size:''' Maximum 20 participants so we can have a manageable working meeting. The organizing committee will invite and select participants based on input from [[TheTeam]].

'''Site Hosts:''' Matt Clarkson (m.clarkson@ucl.ac.uk), Miklos Espak (m.espak@ucl.ac.uk)

'''Organizing Committee:''' (need to ask people)

'''Future Events:''' Future hackfests will be announced in advance, and we hope lots of people will be interested in participating. The venue and activities at future hackfests will be determined based on the number of active participants in the project. We welcome participation via the CTK email lists, the source code repository, and this website.

== Attendees ==
*So far we have received confirmation for the following people (in no particular order).

Please fill in your intentions in terms of common accommodation.

{|class="wikitable alternance" style="text-align:left; border:1px solid black;"
|+ '''''Participants'''''
|-
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Name
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Organization
|-
|Matt Clarkson
|University College London, UK.
|-
|Miklos Espak
|University College London, UK.
|-
|Michael Onken (planned)
|OFFIS, Germany.
|-
|}

{|class="wikitable alternance" style="text-align:left; border:1px solid black;"
|+ '''''Google Hangout Participants'''''
|-
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Name
! scope=col style="background:#cde6f8;"| Organization
|-
|-
|}



{{Note}}There were also other invitations sent to active people on the community, and people who recently showed interest. When their intent will be known they will be added to the list.

== Preparation ==

Developers should bring a laptop with the [http://github.com/commontk/CTK current CTK source code] downloaded and [[Build_Instructions|built]].

Use the [http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ctk-developers CTK developers mailing list] to discuss build issues and topics for ongoing work.

Phone conferences have been scheduled in the weeks leading to the event:
* To be announced

== Topics and Projects ==

== Agenda ==

==== Monday ====

Opening discussion
* Review topics and projects
* Plans for the week

Evening:

==== Tuesday ====

During the day: hack, hack, hack...

Evening:

==== Wednesday ====

During the day: hack, hack, hack...
10:30 Hangout to review status

Evening:

==== Thursday ====

During the day: hack, hack, hack...

Evening:

==== Friday ====

During the day: hack, hack, hack...

Late morning; Closing discussion

Afternoon: hack or travel

== Gallery of Results ==
Images from the hackfest
<gallery widths=300 px heights=200px perrow=3>
</gallery>

== Travel & Hotel ==

'''Local contact'''

Need any help in organizing your visit, contact Miklos Espak (m.espak@ucl.ac.uk).
If you have any troubles during your visit, call ''TBD''.

'''Airport'''

'''Transportation on Site'''

'''Lodging'''

Hotels in central London can be expensive, these ones seem reasonably priced:

* The Tavistock Hotel. http://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/tavistock

'''Meeting Location'''

'''Weather'''

'''Food'''

Plan on having breakfast at your hotel before the meeting.

'''Optional Activities in the Area'''

CTK-Hackfest-Nov-2011

2011-10-31T09:53:02Z

Michael: Added myself to the participant list

== Event pictures ==
{|
|[[File:Ctk-Feb-2011-hackfest-panorama.jpg|thumb|right|300px|<big>Previous Hackfest!</big>]]
|}

== Introduction ==

'''Note: this page is a work in progress -- some information subject to change'''

'''Date:''' November 14-18, 2011

'''Location:''' INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, France

'''Goal:''' A follow on to the [[Commontk:Current_events#Past_events|wildly successful previous hackfests!]]

'''Requirements:''' Attendees must be willing to spend their time during the event with writing ctk code that contributes to the main ctk roadmap. People who do not feel qualified for this are politely not invited :)

'''Group size:''' Maximum 20 participants so we can have a manageable working meeting. The organizing committee will invite and select participants based on input from [[TheTeam]].

'''Site Hosts:''' Benoît Bleuzé

'''Future Events:''' Future hackfests will be announced in advance, and we hope lots of people will be interested in participating. The venue and activities at future hackfests will be determined based on the number of active participants in the project. We welcome participation via the CTK email lists, the source code repository, and this website.

== Attendees ==
*So far we have received confirmation for the following people (in no particular order). Please fill in your intentions in terms of common accommodation.

{| border="5" cellpadding="10"
! Name
! Organization
! Interested in grouped accommodation
|-
| Jean-Chistophe Fillion-Robin
| Kitware
| Yes
|-
| Julien Finet
| Kitware
| Yes
|-
| Steve Pieper
| Isomics
| yes
|-
| Ivo Wolf
| Hochschule Mannheim
| Yes
|-
| Marco Nolden
| DKFZ, Heidelberg
| Yes
|-
| Sascha Zelzer
| DKFZ, Heidelberg
| Yes
|-
| Benoît Bleuzé
| INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
| No
|-
|-
| Matt Clarkson
| University College London
| Yes
|-
| Daniele Giunchi
| SCS, Bologna
| Yes
|-
| Roberto Mucci
| SCS, Bologna
| Yes
|-
| Martin Steghöfer
| UPF, Barcelona
| Yes
|-
| Yves Martelli
| UPF, Barcelona
| Yes
|-
| Anthony Dass
| Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton
| Yes
|-
| Michael Onken
| OFFIS, Oldenburg
| No
|}

* People who manifested interest in joining the fest. Please move your names up to the confirmed table, with the details as soon as you can to facilitate discussions with potential hotels.
{| border="5" cellpadding="10"
! Name
! Organization
|}

There were also other invitations sent to active people on the community, and people who recently showed interest. When their intent will be known they will be added to the list.

== Preparation ==

Developers should bring a laptop with the [http://github.com/pieper/CTK current CTK source code] downloaded and [[Build_Instructions|built]].

Use the [http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ctk-developers CTK developers mailing list] to discuss build issues and topics for ongoing work.

Phone conferences have been scheduled in the weeks leading to the event:
* Tuesday 25th October 2011 18:00 (CET) - 12:00 (EST)
* Tuesday 8th November 2011 18:00 (CET) - 12:00 (EST)

== Topics and Projects ==

==== Roadmap development ====
*Develop a [[CTK-Roadmap|roadmap for the CTK core]]. It is advised to begin pondering on this in the weeks leading to the hack-fest in order to dedicate as much time as possible to the real hacking during the week. The [[CTK-Roadmap|roadmap for the CTK core]] is a good place to start your thinking. It has been written by Ivo and Marco at the start of the CTK initiative.

Participants
*Steve
*Stephen
*Ivo
*Marco
*Ben

==== DICOM Application Hosting ====

Possible work items:

* Data Exchange Interface (finish file-based data exchange, XPath Queries)
* Conformance testing (for both host and app)
** Interface (WSDL) compliance
** State transition tests
* Demo Application
* Documentation

Participants

* Benoit
* Michael
* Sascha
* Jc
* Ivo
* Anthony

==== DICOM Networking ====

Possible work items:

See [[CtkDICOM]] for possible goals.

* ?

Participants

* Michael
* Steve
* Marco

==== Widgets ====
==== Tests Framework ====
Working towards a unified testing method throughout the whole code base.
* Julien (also linked but not limited to App hosting testing)

==== Build Systems & Software process ====

Possible work items

* Clean up the code base so everything compiles
* "make install" support for CTK applications
* "make install" support for a CTK SDK (binaries + header files)
* Make CTK compatible with upstream 3rd party toolkits (i.e. DCMTK, VTK, Log4Qt, etc.)

Resolve github issues

* [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues/10 install target]
* [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues/13 ExternalProject to use CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS]
* [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues/23 Error improperly reported on CDash]
* [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues/26 CTK windows configuration error (DGraph-related)]
* [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues/27 Failing tests in ctkCore]
* [https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues/30 Minimize confusion associated with buildsystem]

Participants

* Jc
* Sascha

== Agenda ==

TBD

== Travel & Hotel ==

'''Local contact'''
* If you have any troubles during your visit, call Benoit : +33 4 92 38 71 55 (or if not available, +33 6 32 78 59 92, but it's my mobile)

'''Airport'''
* Nice Airport: http://en.nice.aeroport.fr/

'''Transportation on Site'''
The taxi is awefully expensive, count around 50 € to go from Nice Airport to Antibes.

The bus from Antibes to INRIA is the Express 100. It starts "Place De Gaulle", the closest stop to INRIA is "Templiers", costs 1€.
From there it will only take you 3 minutes to reach INRIA.

'''Lodging'''
Prefer Antibes to any other locations, Sophia-Antipolis is very badly connected to places to sustain you at night, and the buses stop after 20:00/20:30

*Rooms have been blocked for 11 people in the hotel l'Etoile:

http://www.hoteletoile.com/

phone number: +33 4 93 34 26 30 ‎

address: 2 Avenue Gambetta, 06600 Antibes, France

(54€ per night for a single room, 6.50€ for breakfast)
Also here is a map with the hotel, and the departure of the bus line 100: [[file:hotel_etoile.pdf]]
There are other addresses you might find attractive, but I have made no agreement with them:

*Hôtel Relais du Postillon (not far from the other, good reputation among the visitors of INRIA)

8 Rue Championnet, 06600 Antibes, France

http://www.relaisdupostillon.com/

+33 4 93 34 20 77 ‎

For the other hotels, Apparently you should avoid "Le Collier". Then I have no reports on how the other hotels in Antibes compares. But if you can't find a room in the precited hotels, try others near the rail station or within the old town. This way you will get an easy access to the bus (the Express 100).

'''Meeting Location'''
* Inria Sophia Antipolis:
2004 route des Lucioles BP 93
06902 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS Cedex - FRANCE

'''Weather'''
* Average min/max temperature in November in Sophia Antipolis:15-20 Celsius

== Related Events/Activities ==

INRIA Imaging Workshop November 21-23: http://www-sop.inria.fr/asclepios/events/VPHimaging11/

CTK-Hackfest-September-2010

2010-09-20T15:54:34Z

Michael: Just some selfish name changing :)

== Event pictures ==
{|
|align="left"|This was a working meeting - we wrote and debugged a lot of code!.
|[[File:Chiara-and-Yves.JPG|thumb|200px|<big>Most Excellent Hosts</big>]]
|[[File:Julien-and-Jc.JPG|thumb|200px|<big>Happy Hackers</big>]]
|[[File:Pedro,Sascha,Xavi,Benoit,Yves,Ivo,Marco.JPG|thumb|200px|<big>Cooperative Problem Solving</big>]]
|[[File:Paolo-and-Daniele.JPG|thumb|200px|<big>More Happy Hackers</big>]]
|}

== Introduction ==

'''Date:''' September 13-17 2010

'''Location:'''
Barcelona

'''Goal:''' A follow on to the wildly successful [http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Events:CTK-Pre-Hackfest-2010 March 2010 pre-hackfest] and [[CTK-Hackfest-May-2010| May 2010 hackfest]] .

'''Requirements:''' attendees must be enthusiastic about CTK and willing to spend their time with the details of dicom, git, cmake, c++, Qt, vtk, itk, openinventor, and related technologies. People who do not feel qualified for this are politely not invited :)

'''Group size:''' maximum 20 participants so we can have a manageable working meeting. The organizing committee will invite and select participants based on input from [[TheTeam]].

'''Organizers:''' Ivo Wolf, Steve Pieper, Stephen Aylward

'''Site Hosts:''' TBD

'''Attendees:''' (due to limited space, please contact the organizers to attend)
# Steve Pieper, Isomics, Inc., USA
# Ivo Wolf, Hochschule Mannheim and DKFZ, Germany
# Marco Nolden, DKFZ, Germany
# Sascha Zelzer, DKFZ, Germany
# Julien Finet, Kitware, USA
# Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin Kitware, USA
# Xavi Planes, UPF, Spain
# Pedro Omedas UPF, Spain
# Yves Martel UPF, Spain
# Benoit Bleuze INRIA, France
# Daniele Giunchi, Italy
# Paolo Quadrani, Italy

''Virtual Attendees (by email or phone): Lawrence Tarbox, Michael Onken, Stephen Aylward''

'''Future Events:''' The organizing committee invited a group of developers to get the CTK project started and we've believe we've reached capacity for this event. Future hackfests will be announced in advance and we hope lots of people will be interested in participating. The venue and activities at future hackfests will be determined based on the number of active participants in the project.

== Preparation ==

Developers should bring a laptop with the [http://github.com/commontk/CTK current CTK source code] downloaded and [[Build_Instructions|built]].

Use the [http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ctk-developers CTK developers mailing list] to discuss build issues and topics for ongoing work.

'''We plan to hold weekly phone conferences during the month leading up to the actual hackfest. Be prepared to discuss projects so we can make the most effective use of the face-to-face hackfest time.'''

== Preliminary Agenda ==
Nominally 9am to 5pm each day Monday through Friday. Monday will start with a review of the topics. Anyone who has prepared material they would like to present can suggest a time slot so a detailed agenda for the rest of the week can be prepared. Unless otherwise allocated, it is expected that the time will be spent hacking, with ad hoc discussions and debugging sessions as needed.

*''Monday''
** 9am - welcome
** Everyone should say a few words of what they want to accomplish during the week. Also state if you would like to present on a topic and lead a discussion so these can be added to the agenda.
** Review of git methodologies (Jc, Benoit, Sascha and all)
** Options for C++ DICOM Application Hosting implementation in CTK (Sascha and other)
** Questions for packaging CTK in debian: 1) what to enable as 'standard ctk' 2) package name: commontk or ctk? 3) build against VTK trunk or release version? Same question for DCMTK, Qt, etc...
** Demos/Presentation: CreatTools, DTK/MedInria, MAF Scripts
*''Tuesday''
*''Wednesday''
** afternoon status update from everyone, review to-do items for the rest of the week.
*''Thursday''
*''Friday''
** afternoon summary of progress and discussion of ongoing work, future {talk,hack}fests...

== Topics and Projects ==

Pick up threads of discussion and activity from [http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Events:CTK-Hackfest-2010 Pre-Hackfest] and [[CTK-Hackfest-May-2010|May 2010 Hackfest]]

General set of topics (attendees, please flesh this out with your own ideas!)

=== Schedule Talkfest ===
* Pick a time and place for a talkfest in the US (perhaps at Washington University in St. Louis).

=== Review driving application ===
* First: Define the purpose of CTK:
** Candidate: CTK is meant to span the boundaries of current toolkits and applications. Specifically, its parts are intended to be easily integrated into current software systems and help them address software engineering challenges that impede their clinical use. We are currently focusing simplifying the challenging tasks of (1) integrating DICOM Q&R functionality into applications (i.e., thereby enabling the integration of applications into the data workflow of a clinical environment) and (2) providing clean and effective user interfaces that are appropriate for use in a clinical environment (e.g., intuitive user-interface widgets for window and level selection). Future challenges to be addressed include methods for software testing, event handling, and more.
* Second: Define the driving application to be bundled with CTK (that demonstrates the utility of CTK).
** "cool" application for users = "WOW!" application for computer scientist
** Candidate: The WOW! application could be achieved by working towards three goals:
*** Goal1: Provide Qt widgets for browsing data on a PACS and downloading (Q&R) select images to local disk.
**** Should support batch download based on selected slices, series, studies, and patients.
**** Would be nice to save in another format such as NIFTI, but that is a nice-to-have.
**** Query/browse Qt widget would show results as a tree (patient, study, series, images) with optional keys (sex, etc), when available
**** Provide progress reporting of transfers
**** This would be HUGE for the community. Imagine having a small set of Qt/DCMTK widgets that combined together form a Q&R workstation. This is a great place to start sharing.
*** Goal2: slice-based view of downloaded data (data on disk)
**** Qt image viewer with intensity window/level and not much more. This is meant to be minimalistic.
*** Goal3: initiate processing on data (server-based data or downloaded data) using the dicom plug-in standard
**** This is where we can really help the community. Provide a C++ reference implementation, and some Qt widgets that help initiate calls to available services.

=== Organization and Workflow ===

* First day will be dedicated to code organization and policies for git-based workflow.
** expected result will be a set of procedures for dissemination to the ctk community for comment and adoption.

=== DICOM ===
* Review of ITKv4 DICOM Plans and discussion of DCMTK and GDCM.

=== Widgets ===
* Review status of Qt-based CTK widget developments
** Slicer4, DTK, GoFigure (others?)

=== Plugins, Modules ===
(utilities for discovering and invoking code blocks)
* Use case demonstrating the benefits of the plugin framework (Slicer Command Line Plugins?)
* Integration of Qt SOAP (?) http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Utilities/qtsoap/ for DICOM application hosting

Old:
* Plugins: not-application dependent (like a java plugin that runs in firefox or internet explorer or in our case something like a registration routine that gets invoked from a host application)
* Modules: rely on some of the API of the host application (like a loadable module that creates a custom GUI using a Qt API so it may work in more than one Qt-based application)

=== Interoperability ===
(gluing toolkits together)
* VTK/OpenInventor shared OpenGL rendering context

=== Events and Communications ===
(run-time messaging within and among applications)
* ZMQ
* OpenIGTLink
* Event Bus (MAF, Patrick's ZMQ)

=== Integration ===
(using CTK code in different applications)
* Change the private implementation macros to behave like Qt (derivable pimples)
* Improve unit testing macros (interactive mode, property check...)

== Progress Reports and Updates ==

=== Wednesday ===

* DICOM Application Hosting:
** architecture of client/server web services is coming together - examples are coming soon.
** mods to CTK build system so only need libraries and includes are only included if needed (avoid compile/link errors)
** will send a pointer to Lawrence for comment.
* DICOM test application [http://github.com/pieper/CTK/commit/304990558a522b391da7aaa31e1642f8deb37e09] [http://github.com/pieper/CTK/commit/0571b151312db2b310bf0a5dd1aa189294eeb3be]
** requires change currently only in [http://github.com/pieper/DCMTK this dcmtk fork]
* creating new dcmtk fork in commontk that can track dcmtk.org
* bbtk (CreaTools) merged with ctk on Jc branch - integrated with console and superbuild
* new CTKLauncher (sets environment before starting real app)
** will be available for any app
* Changover to CTK pimpl macros to use Qt style [http://github.com/commontk/CTK/commit/bab18744b88d3166d37bdcb628389ec46c782398]
* Command Line module switchover so slicer command line modules can be used in any ctk app
* MAF bus with patches to work with QtSOAP (patches to QtSOAP in cmake) and how to connect map MAF signal/slots to Qt
** Removing MAF dependencies from event bus code to commit to ctk
* Qt application host - pick app, start/stop, listen for SOAP messages. Also manages screen area for hosted app.
* Should have an example tomorrow that uses server and service.
* Some common code shared between client and server

=== Friday ===

* Discussed and agreed on a [[Contributing_to_CTK#Git_Commit_Style | git commit style]]
* Pushed changes to commontk/DCMTK on github as proper fork of the offis dcmtk.org git [http://github.com/commontk/DCMTK]
* MAF event bus and plug in now in ctk (extracted from MAF)
** demo application is close to finished
** loads plugin
** code is in a branch on Danielle's fork [http://github.com/dgiunchi/CTK/commits/mafEventBusBranch]
* Inherit include paths from external projects added to build system
* Architecture of integration of command line modules into GIMIAS as example of general purpose utilities (involves moving XML parser into ctk)
* CTK being integrated in GIMIAS (need to add dependencies of Qt in build system)
* (TODO: example of external application that uses CTK using a find_package)
* Application Hosting
** protocol to start and monitor applications
** finishing data exchange
** ctk host can talk with ctk hosted application
*** start/stop/resize/progress messages
*** dicom data sending and file paths are being sorted out
** currently trying to talk with xip host/app
** wsdl types are being sorted out (some intermittent windows / java / .net issues)
** working remotely Lawrence on debugging
** [[Documentation/DicomApplicationHosting | summary wiki page]]
* Discussed testing and dashboards
** ctk tests include gui testing, so linux clients need to have access to X server (possibly using Xvfb)
* ctkLauncher pretty close to working [http://github.com/jcfr/CTKAppLauncher]
* dicom query retrieve example application is now in commontk on github and is [http://github.com/commontk/CTK/tree/81897d57563348b95e63172ebcbc325963a2e1e9/Applications/Testing/Cpp enabled as a test]

=== Next Steps ===

* Next Hackfest
** Proposal is sometime in February in Orlando (possibly before or after SPIE)
* Need for a Talkfest
** Possibly a one or two day meeting. Even a dedicated phone call would be a good idea.
* Focus on Application Hosting
** need examples of working binaries in various languages
** it would be good for CTK to have the reference C++ implementation and contribute to the spec
** a good application hosting solution has the potential to be the WOW application of ctk
* Need better documentation and example for using ctk in other applications
* Distributing Binaries
** Still have the dependencies on non-release versions of upstream tools (e.g. VTK and DCMTK)
** need to have method for maintaining binary compatibility when distributing bug fixes, e.g. http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker

== Travel & Hotel ==

'''Travel'''

*Airport
** El Prat (airport code: BCN). Located at 15km from the city center, is where most international flights arrive. Accessible by Train, Bus+Metro and Taxi.
*** Option 1. Take the [http://www.sgmt.cat/aerobus/index.php/en/linies.html AeroBus] to "Barcelona-Pl. Catalunya" (5 eur 30 min). Take the [http://www.tmb.net/img/genplano.pdf underground] L1 red line direction L1-Fondo, from L1-Catalunya to L1-Glòries (1,4 eur 10 min). Take care of your wallet in the city center.
*** Option 2. Take the taxi until Glorias shopping centre (30 eur 30 min)
** Girona (airport code: GRO). Located at 90 km from Barcelona, low cost flights from Ryanair company arrive here. Only accessible by Bus.
*** Take the [http://www.sagales.com/pubdocs/1799_aeroport-girona-costa-brava---barcelona-%28estacio-nord%29-2010-06-14.pdf Sagales bus] (Barcelona way) to "Estacio del Nord" in Barcelona (75 min). In "Estacio del Nord" take the [http://www.tmb.net/img/genplano.pdf underground] red line L1 direction L1-Fondo, from L1-Arc de Triomf to L1-Glòries (1,4 eur 10 min).

*Location
** The event will occur in Communication Campus of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
** [http://cilab2.upf.edu Universitat Pompeu Fabra – CISTIB]: C/ Roc Boronat , 138, 08018 Barcelona
** [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=C%2F+Roc+Boronat,+138,+08018+Barcelona,+Espa%C3%B1a+(Universitat+Pompeu+Fabra)&sll=41.397608,2.15538&sspn=0.052796,0.132093&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Carrer+de+Roc+Boronat,+138,+08018+Barcelona,+Catalunya,+Spain&t=h&z=17 Gooogle Map location]. The building is finished, even if in the map appears in construction :-)
** Meeting room number is 52.421

'''Hotel'''

We have made a pre hotel booking for CTK in a hotel that is very close to the meeting place. We booked 10 rooms (individual or double). There’s a reduced price for UPF (15%), so you can directly contact to the hotel using the name “CTK UPF” and you will get the reduction. This reduction will be applied individually, not for a group.

To formalize this pre hotel booking you need to contact with the hotel and provide the credit card number and Expiry date. This pre hotel booking is valid until 06.09.10. If you will stay more days in Barcelona, you can request these to the hotel as soon as possible.

''Details:''
* Hotel booking name: “CTK UPF”
* Hotel: “Hotel Amrey Diagonal”: http://www.amrey-hotels.com/hoteldiagonal/home.php?lang=EN&c=1
* Arrival date: 13.09.10 (Monday)
* Departure date: 17.09.10 (Friday)
* Daily rate:
** 95.89 € VAT Incl. – DOBLE
** 85.79 € VAT Incl. – SINGLE
* Breakfast included
* You need to pay directly when you arrive on 13.09.10 until 18H

If you need further details or we can give you more support, please contact Xavier Planes Cid (xplanes at cistib.upf.edu)

'''Connectivity'''
# We will provide both wired and wireless connection