Phone Meeting 2004-12-21 15:30 UT

Participants: KlausBanse, PrebenGrosbol, DavidGiaretta, DanielPonz, KlausReinsch, ThijsVanDerHulst, BillCotton, BiancaGarilli, DougTody

Agenda and minutes

1. General information
   • Draft minutes of FaceToFaceMeeting20041202
     • BiancaGarilli remarked that the discussion on having separate phone meetings for detailed discussions on requirements and architecture was not mentioned. PrebenGrosbol will add this to the minutes (action).
     • Beside this the minutes were accepted
2. High level requirements
   • Discussion on revised HighLevelRequirements
     • PrebenGrosbol summarized the changes of the requirements. They were found to be in agreement to the discussions at the face-to-face meeting.
     • BiancaGarilli found that requirements on visualization were not sufficient. She agreed to expand them on the TWiki page (action).
3. Architecture and frameworks
   • Discussion of revised ArchitectureAndFrameworks
     • DougTody gave a short overview of the changes/additions made to the architecture page. They include better treatment of: container services, parameters, GUI's and data model.
     • After a question on GUI's by BillCotton, there was a general discussion on the merits of having an options for GUI's to be directly connected to an application. It was agreed that in special cases this was needed but that normal GUI's should be at the Presentation Layer.
     • DougTody reported on some discussions he had with Astrogrid people. The conclusion was that a main difference was our emphasis on individual astronomers using their desktop system.
4. Actions
   • Status of open actions (see ActionList)
   • Summary of new actions (see below)
5. Time for next phone meeting
   • Suggestion: 2005-01-18 15:30 UT (16:30 CET)
6. Any other business

Please add what I have forgotten and correct my errors.

-- PrebenGrosbol - 22 Dec 2004
to top