Phone Meeting 2007-11-13 15:30 UT

Participants: BiancaGarilli, PrebenGrosbol, PeterLinde, DanielPonz, KlausReinsch, BillCotton, DougTody

Agenda and minutes

1. General information
   • Status on current work
     • There has been little progress with respect to high-level requirements document. PG plans to implement the changes when he is in Socorro Dec. 4-14.
2. Possible FP7 proposal
   • Draft proposal etc.
     • PG mentioned that, probably due to the large amount of high level meeting in ESO in October/November, it has been difficult to get a firm answer from the ESO management on whether or not they would support our OPTICON FP7 proposal. There seems little purpose in submitting a proposal without a certain level of ESO backing.
     • A first draft version of a FP7 proposal was sent out just before the meeting. It was based on the proposal for the OPTICON mid-term meeting. PG summarise the main changes as: 1) basic data of the proposal (such as budget and partners) were inserted in the start, 2) the budget was reduced to only include a steering committee and work on the standards at a level 2 FTE over 3 years on the European side, and 3) reference implementations are not a part of the proposal and were moved to an Appendix. DT noted that VO often followed a similar scheme where part of the reference implementation were done by individual institutes.
     • There were several typos etc. in the first version so PG will revise it by Nov. 14 and re-distribute it. Since he is on vacation from Friday afternoon till Nov. 28 including, comment should be send by Thursday Nov. 15. He will then make a semi-final version. It is planned that the proposal should be submitted on Nov. 30 so final correction can be made at that time.
     • There were a discussion on potential partners to be listed on the proposal. Partners are those institutes which will actively participate in the development of the standards and do not refer to membership in the steering committee. PG will check with respect to ESO while BG will verify INAF participation. PG will check with CS concerning Marseilles. DT confirmed that NVO is likely to join and will check with NRAO, NORO, and STSci. Fine tuning of the proposal should be possible in December as the OPTICON board meeting first is expected in early January. PG will contact Radionet to ensure coordination.
3. Prototypes
   • Reports on prototype work
     • BG mentioned that LP continued his work on the prototype but it was too early to give a comprehensive summary.
4. Actions
   • Status of open actions (see ActionList)
   • Summary of new actions (see below)
5. Time for next phone meeting
   • Suggestion: 2007-12-18 15:30 UT (16:30 CET)
6. Any other business
   • Next face-to-face meeting.
     • The target date for the next face-to-face meeting are Jan. 28-29, 2008, in ESO Garching. The meeting would start in the late morning to allow people to arrive by a morning plane and terminate not too late on the Tuesday. PG will check if a meeting room can be found.

Please add what I forgot and correct my errors.

-- PrebenGrosbol - 14 Nov 2007
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