View source for ParaQ:Summit 08/2005

Kitware Inc., Clifton Park, NY
31 August 2005

==Attendees==
*Elemtech
**Corey McBride, Ray Meyers, Clinton Stimpson
*Kitware
**Andrej Cedilnik, Dave DeMarle, Berk Geveci, Ken Martin, Amy Squillacote
*Sandia
**Ken Moreland, Brian Wylie, Gary Templet, Andy Wilson, David Rogers, David Karelitz, Matthew Wong

==ParaView 'Areas of Improvement' Notes==

*State
**There are problems when a state is applied to a different file
*Wizards
**Open/write a file
*Cut/Copy/Paste
*Functional vs. implementation
*Object selection/operation interactions (like a drawing package)
**"bold", "italic", like Word
*Logical grouping
**Processing elements (filters, sources)
**Hierarchical attributes
**Data objects
*Configurable interface
**Macro (including UI definition)
**Skinning (implementation of branding)
*Selection is a first class operation
*Undo/Redo
*'Too many clicks'
*Need 'Abort' operation
*Presentation output
**Movies
**Images
**Plotting output
*Multiview
**Linking
**Views
**Timesteps
**Colormaps
**Cutplanes
**Timstep
**Cutplane
**Attributes
**Glyphs
*"Specialness of some objects"
**They aren't consistently represented in UI
*Quantitative/Drill down
**Interactive vs. static
**Plotting (reference BLOT?)
***2D
***3D
*General export (not just from probe)
*Time
*Hide implementation 
**Logical vs. filter operations
**Point/Cell cenetered data
*Hierarchy representation
*Intelligent browsing
*Global Accept
**Show 'out of sync'
*Integrated

==ParaQ Strawman Scheduling==

*Q4 2005 (Demo capability)
**Requirements
***Super simple
***Multiview
***Quantitative
***Macros
***Animation (play timesteps)
***Parallel
***Client/Server
***Testing Framework
***Views
****Hierarchy Editor 
****Inspector
****Geometry
****Palette
****SESAME
***Linking
****Selection
****Data
***Client side graphs
****Histogram
****Scatterplot
****Linegraph
***Filetypes
****Exodus
****Ensight
****vtk
****xdmf
***Small number of filters (10)
***General
****Volume rendering
****"Fast path" operations

==Decisions==
*Kitware will host CVS repository, bug tracker, testing machines, and wiki.
*Telecon meetings will be held every Tuesday at 1PM EST.
*Ken Moreland, Mark Richardson, and someone to be named at Kitware will lead the plotting effort, which includes short-term deliverables for client-side plotting, and a long-term deliverable of parallel graphing capability.

==Action Items==
*[ET] Determine technical solution for Qt testing.
*[BW] Create demo script, which will guide the development timeline.
*[DR] Create Microsoft Project schedule.  Put in wiki.
*[BW] Coordinate videoconference equipment and setup.
*[KW] Create CVS repository and accounts, mailing list, bug tracker.
*[BW] Determine guidelines for GPL'd Qt stuff.  Put info in wiki.
*[DR] Renew FNR paperwork
*[KM/BG] Design ParaView Multiview architecture, and determine delivery timeline.
*[CM] Create straw man class architecture for ParaView Server API.
*[DR] Create document for group describing Model/View architecture discussion.
*[KM/MR/?] Create plotting design document.
*[BW] Determine customer contact for plotting project.
*[BW] Forward list of people who need cvs access to Kitware.  This will include only those people with valid Qt developer licenses.