VOTECH Board/TAP Telecon Nov 2007

This will be a Board meeting, conducted by telecon. Formal TAP business is expected to be concluded before the meeting, but TAP members are welcome to participate in the rest of Board business. This meeting follows on from the DSRP meeting at Edinburgh, October 8-11.

Arrangements

Date Thursday Nov 8th 2007

Time 1100 (UK) / 1200 (Europe)

Dial-in (to be confirmed) 0871-271-2911 (UK), +44-870-050-1623 (Europe)

When asked, key in (a) Room number 100889 (b) pin number 7932

Note : this is the New Voice Media service. We might use PowWowNow

Agenda

(1) Minutes of meeting 2007-04-04

• votech-board-20070404-mins.pdf

(2) Actions

• votech-board-2007-11-08-actions.pdf

(3) Brief reports from partners

(AstroGrid, CDS, ESO, INAF)

TAP section

(4) Formal Approval of Stage06 plans

Note that it is expected that this business will be concluded by email before the meeting.

DS3Plan06 (Noddle)

DS4Plan06 (Dolensky)

DS5Plan06 (Derriere)

DS6Plan06 (Mann)

Board section

(5) Debrief on Mid-Term Review (Lawrence)

See link to Review Review wiki page.

(6) Finance Report

- votech-board-2007-11-08-finance.pdf: Finance update

- discussion of whether to request no-cost extension

(7) VOTC charter

- Second draft of VOTC Charter (Lawrence)

• VOTC-charter-draft-20071105.pdf

(8) Euro-VO FP7 proposals

- status report on AIDA (Genova)

- debrief on AGENA (Pasian)

- further opportunities for VOTECH-like work (all)

(9) Planning for third annual report

Summary of schedule and tasks (Lawrence/Williams)

• votech-board-2007-11-08-annrep-plan.pdf:

(10) Date and location of next DSRP

-- AndyLawrence - 18 Oct 2007