[IGSTK-Developers] Development Paper: final comments from Kevin Sr.

[Kevin Cleary]

Brian:

It looks good to me and ready to go with a few minor comments:

1) It does not seem to me that you received Stephen's comments which I got
about 2 hours before your revision. In particular, I agree with Stephen that
we do not want to use "distribution model" in the first sentence of the
abstract because we use "distributed development teams" in the second. Can
you check on Stephen's comments? (Normally I would not pay any attention to
Stephen's comments since I went to Duke and he is at UNC, but he has a valid
point here ;)

2) I also agree that we should say in the last paragraph of the introduction
that the software is still in beta form and evolving and we expect a stable
release toward the end of the year. You guys know better than me, but I am
not sure how useful the software is in its current form, although I have no
problem with people checking it out. But I don't want to get people
frustrated with it early in the project.

3) The web site www.igstk.org is not that good right now so I would prefer
to say "Basic information related to igstk can be found at the web site
www.igstk.org and the Wiki pages http://public.kitware.com/IGSTKWIKI/".
Sohan originally maintained the web site but he is gone now and I intend to
have the new programmer Patrick Cheng take it over(he starts on Monday but
will need some time to get up to speed).

Those are my comments - probably the same disclaimers should go in Luis'
paper as well - but I would go ahead and submit the paper with these changes
as soon as you can and not wait until the new deadline which was just
extended to August 5th (at least I think that's what Luis' email said)

But all in all, I think it is a nice paper and a good summary for both us
and others.

Regards all

Kevin

P.S. The only small typo I saw was in the last sentence of the abstract
where you need a space after the semicolon after Johns Hopkins University

  
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-----Original Message-----
From: igstk-developers-bounces+cleary=georgetown.edu at public.kitware.com
[mailto:igstk-developers-bounces+cleary=georgetown.edu at public.kitware.com]
On Behalf Of M. Brian Blake
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 1:42 PM
To: Stephen R. Aylward
Cc: IGSTK-developers
Subject: Re: [IGSTK-Developers] Development Paper

OK.

I have added all comments and have a near final version.  Will probably
submit tomorrow?  Any final comments?  Oh, not sure where to add the URL.
We should probably use www.igstk.org (sounds more official). Any preferences
?

BTW - I just found out that I will be the poster boy for Georgetown
University this month.  Check out the main page @ http://www.georgetown.edu

-BB 

M. Brian Blake, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
mb7 at georgetown.edu
http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~blakeb/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen R. Aylward" <aylward at unc.edu>
Date: Friday, July 29, 2005 12:53 pm
Subject: [IGSTK-Developers] Development Paper

> Hi,
> 
> Attached are my mainly style-istic changes to the paper.   I think 
> the 
> paper covers the process well.
> 
> Perhaps we should also include the website in the paper?  It might 
> be 
> good to have a place for people to go to get more info.
> 
> Stephen
> 
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