Present: Jacek Becla, Amber Boehnlein, Travis Brooks, Rob Cameron, Arno Candel, Ashley Deacon, Richard Dubois, Thomas Eriksson, Tony Johnson, Imre Kabai, Stuart Marshall, Randy Melen, Amedeo Perazzo, Vineet Rawat.
Minutes:
- Rob provided update on ITSC
- Milestone: completed list of the IT services supported
- SC part missing, Randy will provide it
- ITSC has 1 month to rate items and identify needs and missing items
- Actions:
- Norm R. to report on revamped website
- Don L. to enlist someone at Stanford to report an SLAs
- New VPN server
- client won't change
- goes live next week?
- Imre
- clientless option via browser
- safer (timeout, data wipe)
- testing underway (Imre to check who's doing the testing)
- Milestone: completed list of the IT services supported
- Arno provided update on seminar series
- One Tuesday in each of the next 3 months (4pm in Kavli auditorium)
- Publicity:
- SLAC Today article, banner, Richard advertising in PPA, Henry in Stanford?, Randy asked Phil Reese to send to campus mailing lists
- Conflict with Physics Colloquium @ Stanford
- Thomas reports SC (majordomo) mailing list is up
- subscription required (sci-comp@slac.stanford.edu)
- Richard reports SLAC Today article announcing Amber is forthcoming, more general SC advertising will follow
- Seminar will be recorder via EVO
- communications doesn't like Kavli auditorium so we'll have to set it up ourselves
- conversion to more accessible format should be possible later
- Richard provided update on the Jamboree
- Richard away May 7-27
- One rep. per directorate (+Travis, Jacek & Tony)
- 2-3 focused meetings in the next two weeks to hammer things out
- decide on sessions
- select chairs
- select speakers
- develop draft agenda
- choose format (panels, group breakout sessions)
- need succinct definition of goals
- Imre provided update on FudForum
- Working sessions have gone through options and achieved a good starting point
- cleaner look and feel (working with Communications)
- Starter set of forums
- request to look around once the test instance is moved to production
- info in test instance may not survive
- Accessible from outside (anonymous read)
- failed for Stuart recently (broken certificate issue?)
- Login via Crowd
- Forums have owners with some control
- Stuart asks if this replaces hypernews
- conceptually yes, practically, not yet
- is conversion possible?
- Topics?
- SC to beta test
- if things go smoothly, Communicatinos might take over for SLAC-wide use
- need interest groups to provide good content
- Science section
- CosmoCoffee, KIPAC news section to feed?
- Send "hot science" to Imre
- Library tried (and failed?) to provide similar news section
- Science section
- syndication (in & out) is built in
- Forum exists for discussion of improvements
- Working sessions have gone through options and achieved a good starting point
- Amber asked for input on a request from BES
- They want info about digital data management procedures and issues
- e.g., longevity, access, storage, working with international collaborators, who sets policies?
- Write-up due Wednesday (Apr. 27)
- Request prompted by language in the America Competes Act
- SSRL doesn't manage data beyond the experiment
- users own it once they leave
- Ashley and Amber to discuss further
- They want info about digital data management procedures and issues
Actions:
- Imre to check who's testing the new VPN server
- Richard to convene meetings for Jamboree planning
- All to test FudForum and provide feedback
- Ashley and Amber to discuss BES request