Phone Meeting 2008-08-19 14:30 UT

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

Agenda and minutes

1. General information
   • Status of FP7 Opticon proposal
     • It was confirmed that our proposal to continue under the OPTICON FP7 program was accepted (we will be Network WP9.3) but only with 50% of the funds requested. BG, CS, TD, and PG discussed to best way to reduce the scope correspondingly. It was proposed to reduce the duration to 2 years and remove the Reference Implementation and Software Engineering Standards from our FP7 deliveries. This was communicated to OPTICON but we are still waiting for a final acceptance on the proposed reduction of scope. As soon as this has been confirmed PG will ask FP formally by e-mail to be the FP7 WP9.3 vice-chair.
   • ADASS 2008 meeting
     • DT and PG had a brief discussion on possible presentations at ADASS after the Garching face-to-face meeting. It was concluded that we should present a poster on the Application Framework document but not ask for a BoF. As the deadline was Aug. 15, DT submitted a poster abstract with authors corresponding to those on the Application Framework document.
     • DT noted that AURA is likely to have a short informal meeting on software at the ADASS meeting.
   • Next and final face-to-face meeting
     • It should be possible (i.e. within our budget) to have a final face-to-face meeting. The preferred place and time were Marseilles in the second week of Dec. that is Dec. 9-12. The meeting would be the usual 1.5 day meeting and we should decide the final dates at our next phone meeting. Topics should include final acceptance of documents for FP6, and planning for FP7 activities.
2. Design and interface document
   • Current state (latest draft here)
     • DT had provided a link to the latest version of the Application Framework document and gave a short introduction to it. Although it was not complete yet, all vital parts were already included. Thus, everybody is encourage to read it and give comments. PG will send an e-mail to specify which list to use for comments and discussions. It would be good if we could have a general discussion during next phone meeting.
     • MC commented on issues related to sharing of displays and storing and sharing of data read from such displays. He will provide more detailed comments.
3. New developments
   • Prototype projects
     • BG reported that LP has worked quite a bit on sampy (a python implementation of SAMP), keeping it up to date with the IVOA specs and also with our I/F document. He has especially worked on the SessionManager, which is not in the IVOA specs, but is a requirement for FASE. Next in line as soon as he comes back are the logging system and packet manager.
4. Actions
   • Status of open actions (see ActionList)
   • Summary of new actions (see below)
5. Time for next phone meeting
   • Suggestion: 2008-09-23 14:30 UT (16:30 CET)
6. Any other business
   • MC noted that we should reply to the letter of Keith Shortridge with respect to sharing of software.

-- PrebenGrosbol - 21 Aug 2008
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