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The local organizing committee met to discuss the workshop. Turnout and the caliber of the talks was very high. Much of the discussion centered around taking the next steps to keep the momentum and interest high. The format of the short talks worked well to give an overview, however many topics could be covered in more depth. One idea is to form a working group (or more than one) that would meet regularly on topics of interest to share expertise, and presentations on how to do things--generally or in the context of SLAC. Topics suggested include GIT and other development/developer tools, GPUs, mySQL, frameworks, Data management. There was also further discussion of using and encouraging the use of the forum (see for example, the GIT thread https://forum.slac.stanford.edu/index.php?t=msg&th=20&start=0&
). An early topic for a working group discussion is GPL and other licensing issues and tech transfer. A forum topic under 2011 workshop has been started to get your ideas for the working topics (or prioritize the ones listed). We will schedule the first working group meeting for mid/ late July.
We discussed following up on the issue of SLAC having an INDICO server. In this area, it would good to understand the overall SLAC strategy for web content/web management and so a representative from communications to address the SCSC on this. You can join the discussion at https://forum.slac.stanford.edu/index.php?t=msg&th=11&start=0&
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Thomas noted that there are no links evident in the SLAC web to confluence or the forum. You need to know where they are to find them. We should figure out some good places to link in to them. \ [I wonder where sharepoint gets pointed from? (I wonder where sharepoint gets pointed from?)
It was felt that the forum tool needs easier notification schemes and that success will depend on people being told that there is new content, rather than expecting them to browse the forum regularly.