transmart community meeting 5-7 nov 13 - session 1: amsterdam community meeting follow up
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tranSMART Community Meeting 5-7 November Sanofi Chilly-Mazarin Session 1 Amsterdam Community Meeting Follow Up Kees van Bochove and Yike GuoTRANSCRIPT
TRANSMART NOV 2013CHILLY-MAZARIN, FRANCE
Yi-Ke Guo, Imperial College – [email protected] van Bochove, The Hyve – [email protected]
Since June 19, 2013 … tranSMART 1.1 has been released
(15th/Sept) > 100 man/month effort ~4oo code commits have been made into
tranSMART repositories >30 wiki pages created or updated >30 discussions started on the mailing
group 15 developer meetings have taken held 3 community webinars taken place 7 member organisations joined
tranSMART Foundation … and many more
Where are we in tranSMART?
Joint efforts by Pharma, Academic, for-profit service providers and software venders
Fully open source based Rigorously tested ( > 500 bugs fixed) With ETL scripts Documentation Public hosting
tranSMART V1.1 as the Base tranSMART V1.1 is extended to
support both Oracle and Postgres Major efforts has been made towards
a modular architecture with APIs tranSMART V1.2 will be based on
these efforts to integrate various separated developed “local versions” into one common platform
Lots of Things Learned
How to coordinate How to balance development and
release How to promote a process within the
community How to keep innovation while
delivering the needed production system
How to develop a community How to make everyone “almost”
happy
Lots of Challenges Ahead
Product management: requirements from a board user space with different priorities and expectations
Code management: the shared branch for
release and the local development branches
Process management: centrally coordinated release process and distributed development process
The key : balance, balance…
Where do we want to go?- an open question for this meeting- some ideas:
Progress from ‘showing to each other what we do with tranSMART’ to really work together
Identify the overlap in the multiple projects and stakeholders: what brings us really together, as scientists, as developers?
Convert ideas into action by setting ourselves concrete goals with small dedicated groups
#1 People do great things with tranSMART
The fact that we are all here (again) shows we are rallying around a common cause!
#2 TranSMART brings together parties that would otherwise not work together on a day-to-day basisAmsterdam:>10 pharma companies>10 universities/medical centers>10 IT companies
Paris:Academic/Research Institutes : 18 Pharmaceutical Companies: 10IT/Service companies : 19
#3 TranSMART needs to grow as a product.
Opinion: To do that, we need to identify what is common (‘core’), and let the rest breathe!
#4 The TranSMART developer community needs to grow a joint working model around the core.
This has very demonstratably happened in the last months, around the 1.1 release!
#5 TranSMART has great potential as a data sharing platform.
But we need to make it easier to get data in first.
#6 The TranSMART community needs to develop a working model for Quality Assurance.
At least from a development standpoint.
#7 TranSMART needs a plugin repository, to survive as an open source project.
It’s starting – come to the hackathon!
#8 TranSMART has two distinct user communities: clinicians and bioinformaticians.
We might need 2 user interfaces!
#9 TranSMART unites clinical data from EHR and eCRF systems, and bioinformatics data from many sources.
But it has 2 distinct study types: longitudinal studies vs clinical trials / experiments.
#10 TranSMART would benefit from a Community Manager – someone whose fulltime job it is to connect people and ideas in the community.