Phone Meeting 2005-07-19 14:30 UT

Participants: BillCotton, KlausBanse, PrebenGrosbol, DanielPonz, PalleMoller, KenTatematsu, DougTody

Agenda and minutes

1. General information
   • New associated members
     • PG wished the two new associated members welcome i.e. Ken Tatematsu (ALMA/Japan) and Colin Aspin (Gemini/USA)
   • Report to OPTICON
     • OPTICON has requested a report for their next Executive meeting by end of July. It should contain an updated schedule, milestones and other activities and will be used for adjusting budget. PG will submit it indicating that we expect two face-to-face meetings in 2006.
   • EAS newsletter
     • PG noted that there had been articles in both the EAS and ESO newsletters on OPTICON but that in none of the cases our Network 3.6 was mentioned. Thus, it may reasonable and necessary to get some short article published on our work in the near future (e.g. 6-9 months). This was supported by PM and others.
2. Next face-to-face meeting at ADASS'05
   • Arrangements etc.
     • DP summarize the current state of the arrangements of our next face-to-face meeting Sep.30-Oct.1 at Euroforum, Spain.
       • Currently 16 have indicated that hey would participate (including 3-4 guests)
       • DP will get a meeting room reserved for 20-25 people
       • DP will book rooms at Euroforum for the nights of our face-to-face meeting. People who also want to participate in ADASS or other meeting just before/after MUST reserve rooms through these meetings accommodation forms. It will be tried to get the same room for the whole period but it may not be possible in all cases.
   • Participation of guests/observers
     • There had been several requests (3-4) from people who wanted to participate as guest/observers. PG recommended to accept this as long as it was people directly related to data processing and there was space in the meeting room. This was approved.
   • Main topics for agenda
     • A tentative agenda should be made to the next phone meeting
     • Besides a discussion of the requirements (which hopefully would have been turned in to a proper document by the time), a more detailed discussion on design, subsystem structure and interfaces should be made.
     • It is expected that we would be able to get a presentation of the ALMA/AIPS++ work done at NRAO.
3. ADASS 2005 meeting
   • Possible poster
     • There were general agreement on that it would be useful to submit a poster to ADASS on our recent work i.e. requirements and architecture. A summary should be submitted by end July. PG proposed that DT took the lead since a major part of the poster would be concerned with the architecture. Concerning other authors, PG proposed that people were ranked after their participation in meetings with some lower limit (as for last ADASS poster).
   • Request for BoF?
     • It was found important to continue the general discussion on data analysis especially after most major systems now only offer very limited support. The deadline is first end August so a final discussion could be made at our next phone meeting.
4. Current status
   • Requirements
     • PG summarized. The TWiki page DetailedHighLevelRequirements still have to be updated after the discussion at the face-to-face meeting. When that is done, it should be transformed in to a proper document (e.g. LaTeX) which should include a preamble and short description of the individual requirements.
   • Architecture and design
     • DT gave a short update on the architectural work and VO activities
5. Actions
   • Status of open actions (see ActionList)
   • Summary of new actions (see below)
6. Time for next phone meeting
   • Suggestion: 2005-08-16 14:30 UT (16:30 CET)
     • Since PG would not be present at 2005-08-23, he proposed to have the next phone meeting one week earlier.
7. Any other business
   • Write protection on personal TWiki pages
     • PG had noticed that some firm had added to the comments on unprotected personal pages. Thus, he removed these comments and changed the change privilege on them to the actual person.
   • Comments on Parameter Model document
     • DT reminded all participants that they should re-read the ParameterModel page and give comments on fase@eso.org

Please add what I forgot and correct my errors.

-- PrebenGrosbol - 22 Jul 2005