1. SFT Group Meeting 28th January 2005
News John Harvey
Garfield Rob Veenhof
a short history, current status and outlook
AOB

2. 2005 MAPS Exercise Has started – deadline for completion is March 15th
Will be paperless for the first time – eMAPS
see Bulletin
Procedure is unchanged
One new feature is that Supervisors will get to sign Leave Requests

3. Summer Student Requests in 2005
Development of software for visualisation of high-dimentional data (Ianna Osborne)
Development of a Web Based Interface to PROOF (Fons)
Style manager in ROOT (Ilka)
Development of a set of units and acceptance tests for the math library project (Lorenzo/Andras)
Implementation of a new geometrical shape with elliptical cross-section in Geant4 (Vladimir Grichine)
Study of low energy hadrons in bulk matter (Gunter/Vladimir Ivantchenko)
SPI – Alberto has promised 2 proposals
Total = 8

4. Conferences and Schools in 2005
Please let me know well in advance if there is a conference/school you wish to attend this year
for planning budget
for trying to cover spectrum of interesting events – No CHEP’05
see (total of 334!) e.g.
Jan Object-oriented Programming - The Essernce Of Modern Software Engineering: Practical Software Technology Decisions (OOP 2005)
Feb 7-11 Conference On Grid Computing (GlobusWORLD 2005)
April 17-21 Monte Carlo 2005 Topical Meeting, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
May 9-13 HEPiX Spring 2005 Karlsruhe
May 22-27 ACAT 05 X International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis techniques in Physics Research, DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
Jun th IEEE - NPSS Real Time Conference 2005 Nuclear Plasma Sciences Society (RT 2005)
Oct 23-29 IEEE NSS/MIC Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico

5. Keys Take action to mitigate the thefts
Too many keys in circulation for our locks
Propose to replace all locks
with the exception of the Visitor’s room (SB 54)
Propose to acquire new lock not used elsewhere at CERN
neither in the past
nor in the future
Will keep tight control and records of all new keys in circulation

6. Work Room
Is in use
Canon copier – also a fax scanner and network printer
Group library
Office equipment
Water fountain
Area set aside for installing servers
Mac server
Geant 4

7. Other News
Geant 4

8. Next Meeting
February 25th at in 32/1-A24