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.

Meeting agenda page

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)

• 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
    • syndication (in & out) is built in
  • Forum exists for discussion of improvements

• 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

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