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Subject: Muse I mods meeting
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 92 15:39:42 EST

	My version of the minutes follows.  resources and priorities
are approximate.  If mine seem injudicious, please let me know.  Once
you have commented, I will circulate more widely.

							Jud

Muse I Extensions and Modifications:

Proposed Change:
Proposed By    :
Benefit        :
Target Group   :
Resources      :
Priority       :

Proposed Change: port Muse I to Sun SPARC IPC/Rasterops platform
Proposed By    : Evelyn
Benefit        : a stable, fast, maintainable hardware platform
Target Group   : CECI and collaborators
Resources      : Sun IPC, Rasterops board, 1 week staff time
Priority       : 1

Proposed Change: port of Muse to X11R5
Proposed By    : Toshi
Benefit        : R5 support for internationalization, R5 experience for
		 Muse II
Target Group   : foreign Muse users, both companies and museums; the Muse
		 II development effort
Resources      : 2 staff weeks, Sun IPC
Priority       : 2

Proposed Change: internationalization
Proposed By    : Toshi
Benefit        : provide good user interface to non-native English speakers
Target Group   : foreign Muse users, both companies and Museums
Resources      : 1 staff month
Priority       : 2

Proposed Change: add arrays to EventScript
Proposed By    : aybee
Benefit        : might help deal with real data, etc esp. if no database
Target	       : the all in "come one...come all"
Resources      : 3 staff days + 3 UROP weeks
Priority       : 2

Proposed Change: improved write_data functionality including saving
		 a named package, and making the source file an attribute
		 of the package, so a package can be saved back to its
		 original file
Proposed By    : Evelyn
Benefit        : improved support for editors
Target Group   : everyone
Resources      : 2 staff days and 2 UROP weeks
Priority       : 2

Proposed Change: provide an SQL interface to EventScript
Proposed By    : Jud
Benefit        : give Muse the scalable ability to handle data, and to access
                 prexisting databases.
Target Group   : Museums in general, and the MIT Museum in particular
Resources      : SQL compatible database (UniSQL?), 1-6 staff months
		 (depending on level of integration), database server
Priority       : 3

Proposed Change: new compressed image media type (JPEG 8 & 24 bit)
Proposed By    : Steve
Benefit        : will support image server applications
Target Group   : museums and MIT ELI
Resources      : 2 staff weeks and 2 UROP months
Priority       : 3

Proposed Change: full text search capabilities for Muse
Proposed By    : Steve
Benefit        : will make Muse a more effective engine for museum and
		 text retrieval applications
Target Group   : museums and archives, academic databases
Resources      : 1 staff month and 3 UROP months
Priority       : 3

Proposed change: optional enforcement of declaration of local variables
Proposed by    : aybee
Benefit        : will make objects more reusable
		 (as things stand now...they are too context sensitive)
Target Group   : anyone developing Muse I applications
		 (will allow object libraries to be useful)
Resources      : 1 UROP week
Priority       : 3

Proposed Change: make it possible to choose the scope you want a new object to
		 have (global, object) or, more simply, unique name generator
Proposed by    : aybee
Benefit        : reusablity (see above)
		 currently names (for nodes of lists vs nodes of trees) can
			conflict too easily
Target Group   : same as above
Resources      : 3 UROP days if name generator, 3 UROP weeks for variable
		 scope
Priority       : 3

Proposed Change: develop "WYSIWYG" editor for displayed materials
                 (like Builder application)
Proposed By    : Toshi
Benefit        : make application development more efficient, contributes
		 to Muse II design
Target Group   : everyone
Resources      : 1 staff week & 2 UROP months
Priority       : 4
Comment        : Evelyn to chair editor design committee

Proposed Change: change all the rate & rate_setting sillyness to real flags
Proposed By    : aybee & jud
Benefit	       : will fix at least one ugly bug in the display routines
		 will make maintenance much easier
Target	       : any and all users of muse....they wont know to thanks us but
		 it will help them all
Resources      : 1 staff week + 2 UROP months
Priority       : 5

Proposed Change: Muse I port to Windows
Proposed By    : Steve
Benefit        : widely available platform
Target         : K-12, corporations, European collaborators
Resources      : a MS-Windows programmer
Priority       : 5