1 08 -Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester AG2 Cycle-1 Planning meeting AG1 feedback AG2 and VOTECH status Cycle-1 plans

2 08 -Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester Ag1 feedback strong points MySpace Workflow Applications integration weak no stable system UI hard to work with too complicated no "working system with real data"

3 08 -Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester implications long term : better infr., new features medium term : re-centre on applications short term : rollout product AND deployment

4 08 -Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester AG2 methodology (1) planning Cycle.NE. development cycle planning Cycle : plan-doc is bible six months top-level goals does not evolve visible to outside Development Cycle flexible as necessary normally visible only inside

5 08 -Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester AG2 methodology (2) Oversight : PPARC AG oversight committee Policy, Strategy, Resources : AGLI  track progress monthly versus Cycle-Plan Strategy Development : Man Team ProgMan, ProjMan, ProjSci, ProjLead helped by informal Senior Engineers Group no TSP Advice : SAG, TAG

6 08 -Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester VOTECH status contract negotiations still underway 3 years money but 4 years window first new post at Portsmouth : Garry Smith final UK resource planning tomorrow first TAP and DS meetings planned

7 08 -Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester Euro-VO March 17 proposal to fund DCA ESO and ESA commting resource for VOFC Science Advisory Structure planned MOU underway

8 08 -Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester VOTECH - AG2 relationship align goals, work-structure, and planning cycle VOTECH has Assessment and Design focus AG2 has engineering focus for UK AND Euro deployment but some PPARC-AG2 effort added to VOTECH names named soon

9 08 -Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester AG overall goals develop open standards develop a software infrastructure develop a registry demonstrate physical grid of resources implement working VO system based around key UK databases. provide UI to that system provide or adapt science user tools

Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester AG2 specific goals expand, revise, improve core infrastructure provide a suite of science user tools research and deploy new automated resource discovery techniques techniques in Grid technology techniques in visualisation and datamining  create AstroGrid Data Exploration Framework (ADEF) (support for UK Data Centre Alliance) (develop outreach sw for schools and public)

Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester Cycle-1 goals : ROLLOUT Contbns to AVO demo SW product release Physical Deployment Improved interface Simple new tools Document Publicise

Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester Cycle-1 goals : key milestones Jan 25 AVO demo Feb 1-2 and 8-10 : Cycle-1 Planning Feb 25 : AGOC Mar 1 : AGLI quarterly Apr : NAM Apr : Training workshop sw release ? deployed system release ?

Feb-2005Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester Greater AstroGrid deployment can't be done by AG alone work with data centres but must be co-ordinated by AG AG was child of DCs now re-unite and form "Greater AstroGrid"

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