Merge pull request #96 from will-moore/gh-pages-staging

New blog post: status-update-summer-2015

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+title:  "Status update: Summer 2015"
+date:   2015-08-03
+---
+
+Since the 1.1.1 release in May, a couple of developments in the OMERO.figure
+project are worth mentioning:
+
+<h2>Figure moved to OME</h2>
+
+As you may have noticed, the 'figure' repository has changed ownership from
+me (Will) to the OME team at [https://github.com/ome/figure](https://github.com/ome/figure).
+
+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OMERO?src=hash">#OMERO</a>.figure has moved to <a href="http://t.co/l0HsmGyfrF">http://t.co/l0HsmGyfrF</a> and <a href="https://t.co/Rhblqbc7Lv">https://t.co/Rhblqbc7Lv</a>. My &quot;baby&quot; has grown up and been adopted by <a href="https://twitter.com/openmicroscopy">@openmicroscopy</a>!</p>&mdash; Will Moore (@will_j_moore) <a href="https://twitter.com/will_j_moore/status/616373142525726721">July 1, 2015</a></blockquote>
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+This makes it easier for us to include the app in our automated deployment and
+testing workflows and is recognition that development and testing of OMERO.figure is now
+a team effort.
+
+From now on, individual Pull Requests will be deployed, reviewed, tested and any issues
+addressed *before* being merged, in the same way as on all the other OME projects.
+
+The same process applies to the OMERO.figure website (including [this blog post](https://github.com/ome/figure/pull/96)) and the
+site has a new, improved url: [figure.openmicroscopy.org](http://figure.openmicroscopy.org),
+which you are looking at right now.
+
+
+<h2>ROI support</h2>
+
+My major focus on OMERO.figure this summer (apart from having some time off) has been
+working on the much-requested [support of ROIs](https://github.com/ome/figure/issues/79).
+
+I began by developing the tools for drawing and editing simple shapes on an image.
+Lines, Arrows, Rectangles and Ellipses will cover many users' needs, with others to come later.
+Surprisingly, I haven't found an existing library for this but rolling my own has the
+advantage of building just what I want. I've been using ImageJ as a guide for ROI functionality
+(E.g. for the way that ellipses are created) since this is clearly well aligned to
+what users want.
+
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+
+However, during this time it became clear that this functionality would be useful on other apps,
+such as the main OMERO webclient, which still lacks the ability to edit ROIs.
+So I then started porting this code to a [standalone toolkit](https://github.com/will-moore/shape-editor-js)
+that doesn't rely on the Backbone.js library on which OMERO.figure is built.
+This is not quite finished, but you can [try the demo here](http://will-moore.github.io/shape-editor-js/).
+
+Once this is ready, I will move back to OMERO.figure development.
+Initially the focus will be a dialog box that shows a 'full image viewer' with the ability
+to draw and edit simple shapes that are then displayed in the figure.
+A crucial part of this functionality will be the ability to add shapes to exported figures, both in
+the PDF and TIFF formats.
+Ideally ROIs will be kept as atomic entities in the PDF figures, allowing them to be
+individually edited in vector-based tools such as Adobe Illustrator. However, this may
+be a little challenging, so we'll have to see.
+
+This core functionality will be enough to justify a major release. Following minor
+releases will add the ability to copy and paste ROIs between image panels and read &
+write ROIs from OMERO.
+The schedule will depend on how long it takes to get the basic workflow complete,
+and the time available during the main [OMERO 5.1.4](https://trello.com/b/elylnkWf/omero-5-1-4)
+and [5.2](https://trello.com/b/Y5vC8ceF/omero-5-2-0) releases. Hopefully we'll
+have something out about the same time as OMERO 5.1.4, due in September.
+Thanks for your patience!
+
+ - Will Moore

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