<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">All cool. A bottle of whisky for the best suggestion for "M".<div><br></div><div>Lee, if there's anything you want the OME team to look at, just shout. I think most are now on imagejdev.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Jason</div><div><br><div><div><div>On 23 Jun 2011, at 01:04, Johannes Schindelin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Jason,<br><br>On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Jason Swedlow wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I want to discuss with everyone one on this side, but I think there is <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">general agreement with all the points you are making. The model ImageJ <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">uses for ROIs (or anything else) must deliver utility for ImageJ devs <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and users-- that's its first priority. I think the major point is that <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">we should build and implement these tools mindful of common and <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">interoperable use. That sounds like what is happening, and Lee's work <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to date sounds great. We'll look at it and report back. In any case, I <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">doubt we can completely avoid adapting one to another. I believe we <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">should treat the willingness to consider and plan for adaptability as a <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">good thing, and the basis for future cooperation and collaboration.<br></blockquote><br>My experience is that when people are forced to adapt two paradigms into <br>one, either the outcome is better than any of the previous attempts, or <br>the people do not speak to each other anymore :-)<br><br>Seriously again, I think that we're on a good track here, because what Lee <br>does is indeed the implementation side of something that is pretty well <br>defined in the OME standard.<br><br>So all is good.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On the wider issue of broadening OME's scope, that is happening anyway, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and will be done because it is useful and for no other reason. We'll <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">likely agree to keep "OME", and we can decide what M stands for later <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(maybe "Muhahahahahaha!").<br></blockquote><br>How about "Meh!"?<br><br>:-)<br><br>Ciao,<br>Johannes<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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