[Insight-users] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Slicer-ITKv4 hackathon

[Matt McCormick]

Relevant Wiki page:

http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/ITKv4_Migration_plan

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Matt McCormick
<matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Slicer and ITK community members,
>
> In preparation for the upcoming Slicer 4.3 and the NA-MIC Winter
> Project Week, we are planning a hackathon to help with migration to
> ITKv4 as the default version of ITK in Slicer.  For some time,
> community members such as Hans Johnson, Bill Lorensen, and
> Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin have made sure ITKv4 works well with
> Slicer, and we hope to gather and focus on remaining issues that
> should be addressed.
>
> The hackathon will take place on
>
>   Wednesday, December 5th
>
> From 10AM Eastern Time until we run out of energy :-).
>
> The hackathon will take place on a Google+ Hangout.  I will follow up
> with the link to the hangout on this email thread when we starts.
>
> Issues to address:
>
> * Issues in the Slicer bug tracker with the ITKv4 tag:
> http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/search.php?project_id=3&sticky_issues=on&sortby=last_updated&dir=DESC&hide_status_id=80&tag_string=ITKv4
> * Test Slicer/ITKv4 on all platforms, especially 64bit VS2008.
> * Look into reducing the number of ITK Modules enabled when building
> Slicer modules to reduce load time on Windows
> * Test packaging
>
> If there are other issues to address, please report them in the Slicer
> bug tracker and reply to this thread.
>
> Work will occur on the following repository on Github.  Instructions
> can be found in the top level README.txt of the repository
>
>   https://github.com/BRAINSia/Slicer43
>
> Please mark your calendars!  Looking forward to working with you!