NITRC Best Practices for Research Science Forum: open-discussion

RE: MICCAI Tutorial Schedule

David Kennedy — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:41:38 GMT

Friday, Sept. 20th, 13:30

Best Practices for Software Development in the Imaging Community:
Users and Developers Unite!

13:30 - 15:00 Session 1: Presentations
13:30 - 13:40 Introduction to the Tutorial
13:40 - 14:00 Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse: NITRC
David N. Kennedy
14:00 - 14:20 3D Slicer3 extension modules concept and implementation
Xiaodong Tao
14:20 - 14:40 Making others use your software: Lessons learned from ITK-SNAP
Gary Hui Zhang & Paul A. Yushkevich
14:40 - 15:00 Challenges of Collaborative Open-Source Development: Lessons learned from
the early evolution of the Java Image Science Toolkit
Bennett Landman

15:00 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00 Session 2: Panel Discussion & Demonstrations
15:30 - 16:15 Panel Discussion
16:15 - 17:00 Demos

RE: MICCAI Tutorial Session Scheduled

David Kennedy — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:43:04 GMT

Syllabus released, see: http://www.nitrc.org/docman/view.php/360/840/BestPractices_Syllabus.pdf

MICCAI Tutorial Session Scheduled

David Kennedy — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:29:10 GMT

Best Practices for Software Development in the Imaging Community: Users and Developers Unite - Tutorial scheduled for Friday-September 24 PM session.

See http://www.miccai2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113&Itemid=171 for complete schedule.

RE: Welcome to Open-Discussion

Luis Ibanez — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:39:44 GMT

Hi David,

This is a great initiative,
and something that will be very healthy for the community at large.

Thanks for your kind word for the ITK developers & users community.

We will be very interested in contributing to this Tutorial,
if you see that there is still some room in the schedule.

In particular we would like to share:

1) Current software process practices
2) The new approach planned for ITKv4: (distributed version control, distributed testing, web-of-trust)
3) Economics of software development (and why is that "skipping that test" is a bad idea...)

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Choosing a Creative Commons by Attribution license is an excellent choice for the Tutorial materials.

Best,

Luis

RE: Welcome to Open-Discussion

Erik Beall — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:32:11 GMT

Thanks David, you've given me some great places to start,
Erik

RE: Welcome to Open-Discussion

David Kennedy — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 5:45:23 GMT

A tutorial is a great idea.

NITRC has a concept of 'minimum' compliance as a metric of bare bones utility to the end user (see http://www.nitrc.org/plugins/mwiki/index.php/nitrc:Getting_Started:_Listing_Your_Tool/Resource) which includes proper classification in the Attribute List, inclusion of file downloads (indicating release version and date), and some sort of documentation, but 'Best Practices' will far exceed that.

Part of the point of this 'Project' is to begin to collect, in one place, a lot of the communities thoughts on what best practices mean for the developer and user communities.

I will also venture to laud the Insight Toolkit (itk - http://www.nitrc.org/projects/insighttoolkit) as having been leaders in concepts of best practices for, dare I say, decades... Include in this are nightly builds, regression testing, dashboard, etc.

My last little pointer for here is to an old thread in the NITRC Community open-discussion forum on 'Best Practices for your NITRC project' at http://www.nitrc.org/forum/message.php?msg_id=1002 but that doesn't actually add too much, and should probably be folded into this new project.

RE: Welcome to Open-Discussion

Erik Beall — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:00:30 GMT

Hi David,
this is a fantastic idea, and one which I think many developers (and most end-users) will appreciate. Do you have any "best practices" to start with? For example, from the infrastructure point of view, my project http://www.nitrc.org/projects/pestica/ has become much more accessible from just a few days on the NITRC, with nice layout, mediawiki, download links and so on. However, I haven't done much in the way of making my software better for the end-user. A large part is limited time, but another large part is lack of knowledge about the use of project management tools available in NITRC. Do you plan on offering a tutorial (or are you aware of one that exists already) relating to managing a project through NITRC?

RE: Project Graphic

David Kennedy — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 0:57:10 GMT

well, best practices made me think of halo (no, not the game). Started to look for a free clip-art or iconic halo image. this one's a little silly, but it's a start.

Project Graphic

David Kennedy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:05:00 GMT

Part of 'best practices' for any project (software or other) is to have a cool, identifiable iconic image or graphic associated with it. This is important for marketing and brand identification amongst the consumer.

Thus, THIS project needs a graphic. Submit your ideas!

Are there guidelines and 'best practices' for iconic graphic selection? Simple, small (but scalable), not too spatially complex???

RE: Welcome to Open-Discussion

David Kennedy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:53:35 GMT

The community is invited to participate in this project. Ask questions, seek advice; anything to do with 'best practices' in software development from the developer OR end-use point of view.

Note, I've arbitrarily selected the 'creative commons' license (http://creativecommons.org/) to cover this project; even that can be discussed in the context of 'best practices'.

This site is intended to evolve over it's lifespan. Exactely how to use and organize the wiki, forums and docs will be a work in progress, so be patient, and help out!