Meeting Minutes 20100903

Meeting Minutes 20100903

Arun, David, Joe

Location: U of MN

TIme: 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM

2. Agenda
 * 1) David Dauer (“David”) to outline major features of the existing technical infrastructure.
 * 2) Arun Batchu (“Arun”) and Joe Dcosta (“Joe”) to download and install, under David's guidance, the tools and frameworks needed to actively participate in the project.
 * 3) A dry run to test the installed infrastructure (on Arun and Joe's machines)
 * 4) Discuss next steps.

3. Results Arun to use the IntelliJ IDEA IDE; Joe to use Eclipse
 * 1) David provided guidance on how to set up a development environment and hook up to the various tools that are currently being used to share and coordinate work on the project.
 * 2) Downloaded and installed the latest Grails release and a Bazaar client.

Arun downloaded the TAC Energy server source code and was able to start the server. Arun and Joe to meet over the weekend to resolve some incomplete installs on his machine (OS related issues) and discuss other project
 * 1) Downloaded Inkspace and Visual Paradigm for UML. Agreed to use the persistent chat feature of Skype for communicating within the group.
 * 2) Arun recommended augmenting the toolbox with DropBox and Delicious bookmarking software. He demoed the versatility of these apps. David made mention of REPAST and the possibility of using it as the modeling layer.
 * 3) A test run was successfully run on Arun's m/c using a demo-agent provided by David.
 * 4) Agreed to schedule regular meet-ups of local participants to facilitate rapid progress.

related matters that were left out in this meeting due to time constraints.