Phone Meeting 2006-12-19 15:30 UT

Participants: NicolaCaon, PrebenGrosbol, PeterLinde, KlausReinsch, ChristianSurace, BillCotton, RichardHook, DougTody

Agenda and minutes

1. General information
   • Next OPTICON report
     • The next report on our activities in 2006 must be submitted to OPTICON by end of Jan. 2007. PG will write the draft. The report also will contain a plan for the following 18 months. It was decided to specify that our Network will continue until the summer of 2007 and include the definition of a draft implementation plan.
   • Annual SAMPO review at ESO
     • PG gave a short account of the SAMPO annual review meeting which took place at ESO Dec. 8. The main SAMPO activities had been concentrated on work-flows using a graphical Taverna Java framework to execute ESO pipeline tasks. SAMPO is considering to start a prototype effort around Feb. 2007 which would be more closely related to work in our Network. One option would be to introduce an execution framework between the work-flow engine and the ESO CPL based pipeline tasks. This could also include parameter parsing. RH confirmed this but stated that neither exact plans nor a decision had been made yet.
   • New OpenOrganization page
     • PG reported that he finally had created a TWiki page for discussion of an open umbrella organization for keeping documents and specifications our Network produces. Beside a general introduction, a list of possible names was given.
     • DT said that he was for the creation of such an open organization but it should first be done when we had enough content e.g. the final requirements document, a reviews version of the architecture etc. It would probably take until the early fall to achieve this level. We could, however, start to find a good name.
2. Status of reviews
   • High-level requirements
     • A wide Internet review of the requirements was started by emitting a call for comments on the ADASS and VO e-mail lists. By a synchronization failure the two announcements were not identical but referred to slightly different deadlines - the later being on Feb. 6, 2007. Comments are to be submitted to who will re-emit them on the fase e-mail list.
   • Architectural concept
     • PG recommended that also the architectural concept and the parameter model were casted into a proper document and reviewed. It would be good if an internal review could be done before ADASS 2007 so that a wider review could be started just afterwards. DT said that it should be possible to create a document by the summer of 2007.
3. Next Face-to-face meeting
   • Time and location
     • The next face-to-face meeting will be on Tenerife, Canary Islands. The dates Feb. 12-13 were considered but this seems to give too little time for arrangements both with respect to travel and topic to be discussion during the meeting. After some discussion, new tentative dates of Mar. 1-2 were agreed on. PG will announce this through the on36 list so that the dates can be fixed on 2007-01-08. FC gave some information on the likely location of the meeting that is on the South part of Tenerife in a hotel.
   • Main agenda points
     • The main point on the agenda were discussed during last meeting and will include final review of requirements, prototypes, interface specifications and a work-plane for an implementation project. PG will prepare a tentative agenda to next phone meeting (see action).
4. Proto-types
   • Reports on proto-type work
     • CS reported on the Milan-Marseille prototype. Not much work had been done in the last month as other tasks had higher priority. Posters on the prototype had been displayed at the ADA and E-ELT meetings during this fall in Marseille.
     • DT mentions that he had done some work on the parameter model related to VO activities. He expected to do more specific prototyping work early next year.
     • PG mentioned that he had looked into the GNOME ORBit for other reasons. DT recalled that we briefly had looked on it before and that it in principle was a candidate for the executing framework as it was a light CORBA implementation. The main problem is that it was unclear if GNOME would continue with it or go the D-Bus.
5. Actions
   • Status of open actions (see ActionList)
   • Summary of new actions (see below)
6. Time for next phone meeting
   • Suggestion: 2007-01-22 15:30 UT (16:30 CET) --- NOTE: date!!
7. Any other business
   • PG reminded people that they should check if there e-mail addresses on the on35 and face list were upto-date.
   • PG argued that a small sub-group (3-4 people) should be created to prepare a draft work-plan for an implementation project so that it could be discussed at the next face-to-face meeting. This as agreed on and PG will ask for offers (see action).

Please add what I forgot and correct my errors.

-- PrebenGrosbol - 20 Dec 2006
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