1. 2 nd SUMOVER Workshop SUMOVER Project Status Peter Kirstein Piers O’Hanlon Socrates Varakliotis

2. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status Technical details WLAN (DHCP and NAT’d) –SSID: INET6 –WEP key: INET6 Presentations –http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/sumover/workshops/w orkshop-15-16jan07/presentations/http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/sumover/workshops/w orkshop-15-16jan07/presentations/ –(or via SUMOVER workshop page)

3. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status Overview Agenda Lunch arrangements SUMOVER project status

4. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status Workshop – Draft Agenda Monday 15th January 10am Coffee 10:30 Meeting start: Sumover status update 11:30 Software management systems 12:00 Presentation from Colin Perkins (AVT Working Group chair) on IETF activities 12:30 Lunch 14:00 RAT 15:00 Coffee 15:30 VIC Presentation from Barz Hzu (NCHC) 16:30 Talk by Tom Uram (ANL – AG Tech lead) 17:00 Future Project plans New features (e.g. DCCP support, new codecs, SRTP etc) 18:00 Day end Tuesday 16th January 10:00 Coffee 10:30 Open discussion on future 11:30 Optional tool dev session

5. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status Lunch AskPizza? Or something else –Indian, Italian, Asian etc…

6. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status SUMOVER Project overview JISC funded project for 2 years (Started: Aug 05) –Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) –Resources: ~1.5 people for 2 years Why it happened –Resulted from UKERNA e-Science videoconf reports –Media tools in wide use in Advanced Collaborative Environments AccessGrid and until recently VRVS –Diverging code base Lack of support for VIC and RAT –UCL has long history of working on the tools

7. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status Workpackages WP1 : Project management WP2 : Code management systems –Source code versioning, Bug/feature tracking, checking/testing tools, project management WP3 : Common code base –Bring together source code under ‘one roof’ WP4 : Tools support –Provide some support for tools WP5 : Workshops –Bring together interested parties and community WP6 : Tools development projects –Develop some new interesting stuff and publish

8. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status WP1 : Project management Project plan and budget Project progress report –Two reports issued, next due end of February Website –Info/Docs: Workshop docs/report, Project plan –Code management – Trac & Subversion Email lists setup –Web based system - mailman Workshop organisation Project presentations made at: –OSS2006, AG retreat 06, AHM2006

9. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status WP2: Software management systems Surveyed a number of systems –Source code versioning systems CVS, RCS, Git, Bitkeeper, Arch, Subversion –Bug tracking systems Bugzilla, Mantis, Trac –Static analysis tools, Testing suites, Doc systems Now running selected system –Trac with Subversion –Imported all existing code and history –Local and external users (ANL) active

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11. WP3: Common code base Deliverable: D9: Common Code Base (May 06) Surveyed existing patches –ANL, VRVS, External (NCHC, Glasgow, ANU) Licensing –Staying with BSD style license –Re-organise code for external linkage of GPL components Have established collaboration partners –ANL, NCHC, Glasgow, ANU –Having regular AG based meetings Working towards convergence –First converged code base for AG (Early ’07)

12. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status WP4: Tools support Deliverable: D10: Tool Support (Oct 06) Utilising new software management systems Integrating in existing features –E.g. H.264, MPEG4, Hardware Rendering, etc Coordinate with external developers –Direct email/conferencing, Sumover-dev mailing list Work with: –Users, AG-Tech, AGSC, inSORS Stimulate contributions from community –Code, Bugs, Features, Docs

13. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status WP5: Workshops Organised and ran first workshop at UCL –Participants: 16 + 3 (AG remote) –Brought together ANL, VRVS, inSORS and others –Laid ground for continued collaboration –Discussed and ordered features list – on wiki –Platforms Support new Linux and WinXP versions, plus some OSX Second workshop is right here! –Continue on from first one.

14. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status WP6: Tools development projects A lot of discussion at 1 st workshop Put up list of features/changes on Web –Encouraging external input Selected a few new features as “dev projects” –Done: Logo sender, SSM, New codecs, GUI mods –Possible: Talk about that in Future section New video tool project –Collaborative effort with NCHC and ANU Most work being done in NCHC – Gstreamer based –Regular meetings have enhanced SUMOVER collaboration

15. 2nd SUMOVER Workshop - Status Evaluation Internal evaluation –Progress reports (6 monthly) Two issued so far. –Final project report JISC evaluation –JISC meetings –Project officer discussions Evaluation and steering advisory group (ESAG) –Hosted first evaluation meeting in Core workshop attendees and others