CTK-Hackfest-Dec-2012

Event pictures

Images from the hackfest

Introduction

Date: December 10-14, 2012

Location: | Hotel i Portici in Via Indipendenza , Bologna, Italy, Sala Montagnola (Room)

Goal: A follow on to the 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. 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: Alessandro Chiarini, Daniele Giunchi

Organizing Committee: Ivo Wolf, Stephen Aylward, Steve Pieper

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).

WE HAVE REACHED THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTECIPANT - REGISTRATION CLOSED - 16 PARTECIPANTS

Please fill in your intentions in terms of common accommodation.

Participants

Name	Organization
Alessandro Chiarini	SCS, Bologna IT
Daniele Giunchi	SCS, Bologna IT
Alberto Losi	SCS, Bologna IT
Steve Pieper	Isomics, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Ivo Wolf	Mannheim University of Applied Sciences & DKFZ Heidelberg
Jean-Chistophe Fillion-Robin	Kitware
Julien Finet	Kitware
Ricardo Ortiz	Kitware
Andreas Fetzer	DKFZ Heidelberg
Michael Bauer	DKFZ Heidelberg
Marco Nolden	DKFZ Heidelberg
Sascha Zelzer	DKFZ Heidelberg
Florian Vichot	INRIA
Yves Martelli	UPF
Claire Mouton	CREATIS
Miklos Espak	University College London (UCL)

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 current CTK source code downloaded and built.

Use the 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

DICOM Application Hosting

• Refine, extend, test, and integrate with applications
• See also (some still open) tasks and progress from the last hackfest
• Goal: connect some real code via command line interface

DICOM Database and Networking

• Dig into ongoing developments. See CtkDICOM for discussion.
  • Review patches provided by the SlicerRT team
  • Performance Optimization (loadHeader in ctkDICOMDatabase)

• See ctkDICOM in Slicer4 for information on a particular application use case.
• Slicer4 DICOM Bugs and Feature Requests

QAT

Quality Assurance Toolkit -> how to integrate in CTK

Widgets

• Discuss and refine as needed.
• SlicerRt example dicom interfaces discussion

Tests Framework

Try QtTesting with CTK applications

Build Systems & Software process

• Update to latest DCMTK
  • includes dcmrt
  • need to pick a commit to standardize on
  • investigate shared/static library building. (Static instances of classes getting destructed in wrong order)
  • incorporate version checking
    • build ctk against head or snapshot version

• Prepare Debian packaging (Marco)
  • Resolve outstanding issues
  • Make CTK also build with latest stable DCMTK release (3.6.0)

• Evaluate Qt5 (Sascha)

• Setup developer package
  • See #10 and #65
  • Work in progress - See topic 65-packaging-support

• • Release a version of CTK (Work on policy this week and maybe release this week).

• • Work in progress - See cmake-doxygen-filter-reuse

Command Line Modules

• Extract CLI interface
  • Unify VPH and Slicer refactoring
• Qt SEM XML widget

Agenda

Monday

10:30am Welcome

10:45 - 12:00 Round table: everyone presents 10-15 minutes how CTK is used in their project. And what's new in CTK (what has been added since previous hackfest)

CTK in use:

• MSVTK (DG/AL, JF) (10m)
• DICOM in Slicer (SP) (5m)

What's new ?

• New widgets in CTK(JF, JCFR) (e.g. ctkSizeGrip, ctkPathLineEdit, ctkPanelSettings...) (5m)

1:00pm Lunch

Discuss plans/priorities for hacking

3:30pm Coffee Break

5:00pm Close

Tuesday

9:30am Welcome

11:00am Coffee Break

1:00pm Lunch

5:00pm Close

Wednesday

9:30am Welcome

11:00am Coffee Break

1:00pm Lunch

5:00pm Close

Thursday

9:30am Welcome

1:00pm Lunch

3:00pm Coffee Break

5:00pm Close

Friday

9:30am Welcome

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm Wrap up discussion and Meeting Closes

• Update project status on wiki

Travel & Hotel

Local contact If you have any troubles during your visit, call Alessandro: +39 342 1401554 or Daniele: +39 348 7260365

Airport

• Bologna G.Marconi (BLQ)

Transportation on Site

Airport Shuttle from airport to Railway Station (near to meeting location) 6 euro, link: http://www.atc.bo.it/orari/aerobus-airport-railway-station-link

Taxi from airport to Railway Station 15-20 euro

Lodging

There are a lot of hotel options in Bologna.

Millennium Hotel[1]: close to the centre and to the central railways station.

Star Hotel [2]: close to the centre and in front of the central railways station.

Mercure Hotel [3] (Italian link, you need to find the page on your language from the Accor portal) In front of the central railways station.

Albergo Atlantic [4] In the city centre, 10' walking time from the central railways station.

I Portici Hotel [5]10' walking time from the central railways station.

Meeting Location TBA We are finding a meeting venue that could be in the city centre or in the central station area.

Catering

It will be provided by the meeting venue.

Weather

• Probably not sunny, colder than Italian average :-), even it is quite variable, temperatures can range from 0°C to 10°C (min) and from 5°C to 20°C.