Phone Meeting 2006-10-24 14:30 UT (16:30 CET)

Participants: BiancaGarilli (substituted), PrebenGrosbol, PeterLinde, DanielPonz, KlausReinsch, BillCotton, DougTody

Agenda and minutes

1. General information
   • New GB member
     • PG mentioned that we since last year have been looking for a new member to replace D. Giatetta after Starlink was terminated. During the ADASS'06 meeting PG had discussions with Malcolm Currie who was interested in the work of our Network. Thus, PG proposed to add Currie to the Network as normal member. This was seconded by DT. PG will update the membership list next week if nobody objects (see action).
   • Wide review of requirements
     • Our internal review of the high-level requirements was finished 2006-08-01 when v0.91 was issued. There were general agreement that a final, wide Internet review should be useful. After so discussion, it was proposed to try to announce this open review on several e-mail lists such as ADASS and VO lists. PG will check if this is possible (see action).
2. Summary of ADASS'06
   • Face-to-face meeting on 2006-10-15
     • The meeting was scheduled between 13:00-16:00 on Sunday before ADASS'06. Only 5 people participated - to some extent due to the way the meeting was announced i.e. only through the minutes of phone-meeting (one must conclude that few read such minute!). Th following topics were discussed: wide review of requirements, prototypes, an openname umbrella organization for specifications, and relations to VO. Very short minutes will be available on FaceToFaceMeeting20061015.
   • BoF
     • It was places after dinner which meant that several people may have preferred to eat dinner off site rather than going to the BoF. Even so, a total of 40 people turned up. DT chaired the session and started with a short introduction. After this followed presentations by 1) PG on scenarios for usage of a data analysis environment, 2) N.Walton on Radionet and Astrogrid work on an environment for reduction of radio data, 3) BG on the MiMa prototyping of environment using Dbus, and 4) DT on VOClients and technologies for implementation of an execution framework.
     • After the BoF we had several discussions with individuals. DT had lunch the following day with AstroGrid in order to possibly coordinate actions and work. This included relations between NVO and AstroGrid, VOClient, and the Plastic interface. A NVO - AstroGrid meeting is planned for early Feb. 2007/
3. Next Face-to-face meeting
   • Time and location
     • The time should probably be end Jan. or early Feb. 2007 depending on when people are available. PG will update the polling page to check preferences. The two options for a location seems to be IAC Canary Islands or ESO. This will also be added to the polling page. The weather will surely be better on the Canary Islands but the travel longer (i.e. it will not be possible to arrive in the morning and leave the next day in the evening).
   • Main agenda points
     • The major issues for the meeting would be (additional topics are welcome):
       • Finalizing the wide review of requirements
       • Discussions on prototypes
       • Start layout of the interface specifications
       • Structure of the architectural document
       • Creation of an openName umbrella organization
       • Planning for a possible EU FP7 application.
4. Proto-types
   • Reports on proto-type work
     • The representative from Milan gave a short update on the MiMA prototype but not much have happened over the summer so BG's presentations at the June meeting and at ADASS are still quite accurate.
     • DT gave a summary of different developments. He had visited a developers workshop for ORTE. Documentation is still lacking so it had been important to participate to get more insight. The next major release will be ORTE2.0 in Q1 or 2007. He plan to do some prototype work based on ORTE in the next months. He also summarized NVO activities such as VOClients etc.
5. Actions
   • Status of open actions (see ActionList)
   • Summary of new actions (see below)
6. Time for next phone meeting
   • Suggestion: 2006-11-21 15:30 UT (16:30 CET)
7. Any other business
   • None

Please add what I forgot and correct my errors.

-- PrebenGrosbol - 23 Oct 2006
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