ICE cycle 2008-03-03
Summary
The previous cycle began with preparation work for Peter Murray-Rust's visit on the 11th - 13th of February, you can read more about his visit from Peter Sefton on his blog. Preparation mainly consisted of refining the plugin architecture for ICE and Jmol as a web service. Outcomes of Peters visit included being able to embed CML, added a .svg preview of CML and RSS to .odt.
Other work carried out in the previous cycle was interface updates and making ICE 2.0 demo ready, this work continue in this cycle. I (Daniel) am on leave this cycle, Ron and Oliver will be busy working on some of the finishing touches so we can have the server version setup for some of our users to start piloting. We have also experienced some performance problems with our ICE open source server so there may be some down time of http://ice.usq.edu.au which hosts the website, source code and blog.
Predicted work units: 60
Overview of completed tasks
Components
Application
Continue with updating interface back-end (toolbar and file manger merge)
Continue updating the interface “look and feel”
Setup and begin changes required for server version using USQ OWC content
Templates
Release notes for toolbar updates
Integration/Collaboration
Add Jmol to ICE conversion server
Basic LateX as a plugin service
Outcomes from PMR's visit
Client side ICE to use Jmol service
Embed support for CML render – view demo
SVG preview rendition of CML
Atom feeds to ODT proof of concept
Outstanding tasks
Configure USQ ICE 2008 courseware server for ICE – This was dependent on interface updates which were completed late in the cycle.
ICE export using Moodle upload service – Unfortunately we didn't get to use the Moodle upload feature developed by Torben here at USQ, we hope to to this over the coming cycles.
Overview of new tasks
Administration
Open Source server maintenance
Install ICE on USQ ICE 2008 courseware server for piloting
Application
Stabilization tasks for ICE 2.0
ICE server tasks
SVG to bitmap
ChemDraw to CML
About the cycle notes
The cycle notes are used to summarize the outcomes of the completed cycle and provide stake-holders with an overview of the tasks for the next cycle. They are also used to raise any issues for discussion and provide other information for those who are unable to attend the meetings. Specific information on tasks to be completed are available in the ticketing system, see below.
More information
http://ice.usq.edu.au/trac/roadmap
Modified: Feb 20, 2008