Tripal Users Meeting 2020/12/01

Meeting Date
Attendees

Stephen Ficklin, WSU
Jill Wegrzyn, UConn
Sean Buehler, UTK,i5k
Irene Cobo, UConn
Monica Poelchau, USDA-ARS
Valentin Guignon, The Alliance Bioversity-CIAT
Emily Grau, UConn
Risharde Ramnath, UConn/WSU
Lacey Sanderson, USASK
Meg Staton, UTK

 

Agenda

  1. Plan the January Hackathon/Codefest-
  2. Advisory Committee Updates
    • Still working on Tripal White paper
  3. Tripal Release
  4. Overview for how the Codefest will work
    • Jan 11-15
    • We will organize teams today
    • You may meet prior to January, with your team, if you want, to maximize productivity for the Codefest.
      • Our official gather.town room is available for such meetings
    • With your team, set aside on your calendar about 8 hours (similar to in-person event in San Diego)
      • Can be one day, multiple hours throughout the week.
      • Arrange to meet in Gather
    • Will have kick off meeting Monday and wrap-up meeting Friday
  5. Potential Topics:
    • Chado
      • Improve efficiency for storing some data types (e.g. Genotyping, Phenotyping).
      • e.g. mimic ElasticSearch functionality without the need for ES.
    • Tripal 4:
      • Core development
      • Fields: Upgrading existing fields (Core/Extension) 
      • Drupal Console commands for easy upgrade/development 
      • Automated Testing!
    • Tripal 3:
      • Glyphs for gene/mRNA pages
      • BrAPI, (upgrade module to current version of BrAPI)
      • phenotype filtering module (want to make existing MGIS module generic and cooperate with BrAPI - See "Morpholigical descriptor > Selection interface/Display graphical interface" at https://www.crop-diversity.org/mgis/accession-search )
      • Chado-related Tripal 2 to 3 upgrade issue
    • Extension Modules
      • Tripal Galaxy:  improvements and upgrade to T4.
  6. Volunteers to lead a topic?
    • BrAPI/Phenotyping filtering
      • Lead: Valentin
      • Participants: Lacey
    • Tripal Galaxy
      • Lead: Stephen
      • Participants: Jill
    • Chado Improvements
      • Lead:  Valentin
      • Participants:  Lacey, Jill, 
    • Tripal 4
      • Lead:  Lacey
      • Participants:  Stephen, Sean, Valentin
  7. Time Zones
    • Central European (GMT+1) 4pm
    • Western European (GMT)  3pm
    • Atlantic Time (GMT-4) 11am
    • US East (GMT-5)  10am
    • Regina (GMT-6) 9am
    • US Mountain  (GMT-7) 8am
    • US Pacific (GMT-8)  7am
  8. Schedule
    • Kick off Meetings
      • European: 
      • North America: 
  9. Slack
    • #codefest
    • If you want a slack channel let us know.
  10. Tripal Advisory Committee
    • Delay to February's User's Meeting.
  11. Gather.town as a potential “Venue”
Meeting Type
Users