# 2025.01.21 Weekly Meeting

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2025-01-21-weekly-meeting/41174>\
**Category:** Weekly meetings\
**Created:** [January 20, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2025-01-21-weekly-meeting/41174 "2025-01-20T23:20:51Z")\
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### Meeting Notes

#### Slicer 5.8 Release

- **Recent Changes** : Discussed updates related to the distribution of runtime libraries.
- **Visual Studio Update** :
  - Agreed to update the Visual Studio version installed on the Windows factory (`bluestreak`) before the release.
  - Ensures that both Stable and Preview extensions can be built using the same compiler.

- **Next Steps** :
  - Pause the build of Stable extensions.
  - Update Visual Studio on the Windows factory.
  - Wait for the **January 21st preview build** to complete.
  - Begin the release process on **January 22nd**.

#### Refactor Corner Annotations

- **Overview** : @arhowe00 presented an overview of [PR #8143](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/8143).
- **Generalizing MRML Node Attributes** :
  - Discussed generalizing MRML node attributes to allow specific “data” nodes to **advertise attributes** (e.g., DICOM-related attributes).
  - Proposed a generalized approach building on the existing `vtkMRMLAbstractAnnotationPropertyValueProvider`.

#### Curved Planar Reformat (CPR)

- **Work-in-Progress** : A pull request implementing CPR logic into Slicer core has been submitted by @Lee_Newberg. See [PR #8148](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/8148).

#### Slicer Telemetry

- **Hackathon Opportunity** :
  - The upcoming [Slicer Hackathon](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-hackathon-hosted-by-kitware-january-24th-2025/41096) hosted by Kitware on **January 24th** will provide a chance to review and make progress on telemetry-related tasks. Cc: @BerDom.Ing

#### Slicer-SOFA

- **Simplifying Scene Creation** :
  - Discussed facilitating the creation of SOFA scenes in Slicer-SOFA. [Paul Baksic](https://github.com/bakpaul) is developing a “Prefabs” system ([Issue Slicer/SlicerSOFA#40](https://github.com/Slicer/SlicerSOFA/issues/40)).
  - Prefabs act as an abstraction layer to simplify the creation of simulations.

- **Lung Simulation Demo** :
  - @pieper demonstrated a lung deflation simulation where the segmented lung was deformed in the image space, leaving an “air gap” between the ribs and the deflated lung.
  - This highlights the potential of combining simulations with transformations applied to medical volumes within segmented areas.

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