Phone Meeting 2006-02-21 15:30 UT

Participants: KlausBanse, BiancaGarilli, PrebenGrosbol, PeterLinde, DanielPonz, KlausReinsch, ThijsVanDerHulst, MarkoUllgren, DougTody

Agenda and minutes

1. General information
   • OPTICON report
     • Our annual report to OPTICON was submitted by PG. Beside the general report on our past activities also plans for the coming 18 months were given. They include:
       • Approximately 1 face-to-face meeting per 6 months
       • Milestone (Jun 2006) for creating the version 1 of our high-level requirements. This accounts to finishing the upgrade (e.g. adding explanatory text) our current document and going through a written review.
       • Milestone (Dec 2006) on a draft architectural document that is an upgrade and collection of the architectural concept documents which are available on our TWiki.
       • Milestone (Jun2007) regarding draft interface specifications which would consist of a detailed description of all interface required for the environment.
     • DP asked on where the report could be found. PG answered that it currently is in draft form but will be submitted to EU sometime in March. After that it will normally be available through the OPTICON Web pages.
   • Slow TWiki response
     • In recent weeks our TWiki has started to be very slow. Contacting to ESO Web-master (see action), problems with spamming was identified. It seems that some spam sites are registrating on the TWiki and placing large amount of URL's (invisible for normal view) on our pages. This has the effect to slow down all access. The ESO Web-master is looking into the problem but may have to restrict registration to our TWiki (i.e. requiring explicit authorization).
2. Next face-to-face meeting
   • Time and location
     • The May-June period is rather busy in ESO and in addition there are Football World Championship which make options for a face-to-face meeting in ESO few. After some discussion the two main options were June 12/13 and June 26/27 (both starting Monday). PG will update the polling page, check if other option exist and announce it on the mailing list (see action).
   • Main topics
     • The main issues for the next face-to-face meeting would be:
       • Final discussion on high-level requirements based on the written review.
       • Overview of the different proto-types being made or planned.
       • First discussion of actual interfaces specifications
     • Other topics may include updates of the architecture, plans for further proto-types, and issues related to a possible FP7 application. PG will prepare a first tentative agenda to be discussed at next phone meeting (see action).
3. Progress (if any)
   • Requirements
     • Not much have happened with respect to the requirement document. It was agreed to form a smaller task force to look into the upgrade. BiancaGarilli, PrebenGrosbol, PeterLinde and DanielPonz volunteered while ThijsVanDerHulst also expressed interest. The objective is to finish the upgrade by end April so that the review could done in May in time for the final discussion at the face-to-face meeting (see action).
   • Proto-types
     • BG reported on the plans of Milan and Marseille (ChristianSurace) to start a prot-type project. It would aim for an implementation of the interactive VIMOS pipeline into an executive framework close to that outline by our Network. The communication is likely to be based on SOAP. The existing components are written mainly in C. Framework and container technology has not yet been fixed. It is expected that work would start in the time frame April-May. BG and CS will be happy to circulate the design concepts and ideas within the fase WG as soon for comments and suggestions * DT ask what SOAP technology was planned. BG answered that the discussions were on-going but one option would by Java containers using JNI to interface to that actual components written in C.
     • MU shortly updated of the SAMPO developments. They are focused on using a work-flow engine for ESO pipelines as reported at the two last phone meetings.
     • DT reported on his discussions with VOTech on the topic of messaging. It is important to keep in dialog to avoid very different approaches to be taken.
4. Actions
   • Status of open actions (see ActionList)
   • Summary of new actions (see below)
5. Time for next phone meeting
   • Suggestion: 2006-03-21 15:30 UT (16:30 CET)
6. Any other business
   • None

Please add what I forgot and correct my errors.

-- PrebenGrosbol - 22 Feb 2006
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