CTK-Hackfest-Nov-2013
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.
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: 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.
| Name | 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. |
| Name | Organization | 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 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
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 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 (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
Lodging
Hotels in central London can be expensive, this one seems reasonably priced:
Malet Place Engineering Building, University College London [1]
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.
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.
