August 27, 2009

Attendees: Greg, Conrad, Eric, Elaine, TomG, Scooter, TomF

Action Items

• Conrad will add code to migrate options between preference categories upon load

Items

1. Should plato.cgl.ucsf.edu be used for public links to the Chimera wiki?
   • Not yet. When certificate is installed, Scooter will send out an announcement.
2. ACS report
   • TomF's talk and demo went well. People wanted to hear about PyMol and Chimera.
   • PyMol has animation with timeline interface.
3. Trac reports
4. 1.4 release
   • 44 trac issues have 1.4 milestones.
   • Conrad still working on surfaces.
   • Greg has added all 1.4 features (still needs testing).
   • Elaine and Greg will add highlight of Nucleotides extension on Chimera home page.
   • Eric added planes and axes.
   • Need to be out by Advisory Committee meeting.
5. Testing Chimera on Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)
   • Order multi-pack when available.
   • Install on test lab Mac.
   • Test and fix for 1.4.
6. Display download and registration statistics on Chimera web site
   • TomG suggested this for publisher evaluation for book proposal.
   • Scooter thinks that registration criteria is too complex for public consumption, but Eric and TomG disagree.
   • TomF and Scooter suggest putting up a graph instead of raw numbers.
   • Scooter recommends that we revisit this after 1.4 release.
7. Acknowledgments for contributions to Chimera development
   • Split "Citing" page into "Citing" and "Credits" pages and add references to latter.
   • TomG will be in charge of keeping Credits page up-to-date.
8. Meeting adjourned
9. Surface code additions (Conrad)