tranSMART Community Meeting 5-7 Nov 13 - Session 1: Amsterdam Community Meeting Follow Up

TRANSMART NOV 2013CHILLY-MAZARIN, FRANCE

Yi-Ke Guo, Imperial College – y.guo@imperial.ac.ukKees van Bochove, The Hyve – kees@thehyve.nl

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.