Meeting at RIT on 9 September 2006
Herbert J. Bernstein
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY 11769 USA
(yaya at dowling dot edu)
Paul A. Craig
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MEETING AT RIT 9 SEP 2006: On 9 Sep 2006, H. Bernstein, I. Awuah Asimah, G. Darakev, N. Darakev and J. Jemilawon from Dowling travelled to RIT to meet with P. Craig, B. Hanson and C. Westin to discuss work to be done in starting up the project. It was agreed to go ahead with the division of labor as proposed, with the RIT group starting by making a permissive plugin to accept scripts that might contain commands unrecognizable for pymol, logging the missed commands and recovering to the next command. The RIT group would also provide a related capability to export either a log script or a current state script which would note the input script commands that were skipped. The initial pass would use any available object-oriented language, since going from such a language to UML is fairly easy. The initial task for the Dowling group is work on a new SBEVSL dictionary defining the terms used in molecular graphics building on the existing base of the mmCIF, imgCIF and symmetry CIF dictionaries.
The target is for each group to provide something for evaluation to the other group within the next 2-3 months.
In terms of infrastructure, the RIT group was introduced to Dowling's gforge server and it was agreed to set up a videoconfercing system. N. Darakev and P. Craig would work on the initial setup.
Both groups explained the work that they do and achieved a good working rapport. It is clear that both sides bring different and complementary strengths to the project. The project seems off to a good start. -- HJB