Community Meeting 2007-03-14

Community Meeting, March 14, 2007
Meeting will be on Wednesday, 14 March 2007 at 20:30 UTC in IRC channel #worldwind-meeting

Meeting Notes
 * If you want to add something to the Agenda, edit this page. Try and make your changes at least 1 day prior to the meeting. Put your name/nickname after the agenda item, and make sure to attend the meeting.
 * If a discussion results in someone agreeing to do something, the moderator should send an IRC message starting with "TODO:" and the person's name and short description, to make searching the meeting logs easier
 * Moderator should control change of meeting topics. Use something like "OK to move on?", and if everyone has finished the discussion of the current topic, the moderator then sends a message with the next agenda topic. Moderator should force moving on to the next topic if the discussion is too long.
 * Meeting length should be targeted to 30-45 minutes.

Old News
(For reference, here are some notes on "wants" for 1.4.1)

New News

 * Management of WW.net development
 * A project manager should be used to help focus development progress, set milestones and identify resources
 * Should be someone that can manage the developers and someone that would be listened to and can communicate back and forth with NASA
 * Nomination of names (or organisation? FEF)
 * FEF releases of World Wind - Would NASA be happy for FEF to make more frequent releases (un-meatballed), and then when NASA feels ready for an official realease we will do an official build with all their concerns met. (Patrick: NASA would be happy with more frequent releases of NASA World Wind on a strategically planned basis.)
 * This may be easier if NASA makes their own list of goals and guidelines for an official release for the OSC to aim for. (Patrick: The 'list' should be prioritized by the players, just like v1.4 was. Am I missing something?)


 * Plans / Goals for 1.4.0.1 and 1.4.1
 * 1.4.0.1 - Minor bug fixes
 * 1.4.1 - Larger issues that need to be worked on as listed on this page: World_Wind_1.4.1_Notes


 * Google Summer of Code 2007
 * Apply for Google SOC - Hill has applied as administrator (the deadline for applications was 03/12)
 * Choose mentor list
 * SoC ideas
 * Summer_of_Code_2007_Ideas ideas page
 * Summer_of_Code_2007 wiki page


 * Infrastructure
 * Fisheye connection to JIRA is broken. FE is very helpful in tracking code changes long in the past. Example GeoDan showed up on Tues. wanting help with ImageStore, no FE connection so it was harder to track down when it was introduced to the code. Note:Fisheye main is working.(AH)
 * Datasets - 1) How worried do we need to be that any of the current datasets will go away? Due to lack of admin or any other reason. 2) Will there be a "merging" of Zipped datasets for Java and non-zipped for WW. Most think adding zip support to WW tiles will be easy, but it would be nice to know if there is a pressing need (AH)


 * Upcoming Presentations of World Wind
 * link to geoevents calendar
 * News WW conferences & presentations section