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*IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM129)*

<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, September 10, 2025

<b>Time: </b>13:00 UTC

<b>Zoom Link: </b><span data-mce-mark="1"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody" href="https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62257207376?pwd=h6391EcXq0bPD60OlxjbcouTQ374K1.1" title="https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62257207376?pwd=h6391EcXq0bPD60OlxjbcouTQ374K1.1"></span>https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62257207376?pwd=h6391EcXq0bPD60OlxjbcouTQ374K1.1<span data-mce-mark="1"></a></span> [[https://aao.zoom.us/j/84831315252?pwd=TjJZb0VBRVgxcDZ1cVVqTENZMWNMZz09][<br />]]

*Contents*

%TOC%
---++ Agenda
   1 Roll call and agenda
   1 IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
      * Status and roadmap for new website
      * Draft new website available: <a href="https://webtest.ivoa.info" target="_blank">https://webtest.ivoa.info</a>/
      * Git Hub repository: [[https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web]]
         * Bug reporting and change requests: [[https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web/issues]]
   1 Review and approval of TM127 & TM128 Minutes
   1 Review of Actions for TM129 [[%PUBURL%/IVOA/IvoaExecMeetingTM123/ACTIONS_for_TM123.pdf][<br />]]
   1 Future Interop meetings
      * Northern Fall 2025 - Görlitz (ADASS dates: 9-13 November 2025, Interop held after ADASS)
         * Travel and virtual attendance options for USVO
      * Northern Spring 2026
   1 Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
   1 Overall TCG Status [Standing Item]
   1 Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
   1 CSP Report
   1 Report on the IAU General Assembly/Working Group
   1 Date of next Exec meeting
   1 AOB
      1 Posting Exec Committee membership roster online
   1 Review of new actions
---++ Reports from the Projects
---+++ NOVA (Argentina)

---+++ ArVO (Armenia)

---+++ AstroGrid (United Kingdom)

---+++ ASVO (Australia)

---+++ BRAVO (Brazil)

---+++ China-VO<font face="Ebrima" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: small;"><br /></font>
   * A dozen of representatives from China have registered the ADASS and IVOA meetings.
   * Organized by China-VO (National Astronomical Data Center), the 1st Citizen Science Summit in Astronomy (CSSA) took place in Dalian, Northeast China, from July 31 to August 1, 2025. The Summit Featured: 4 invited talks, including a virtual keynote by Chris Lintott (founder of Zooniverse) titled “Lessons from the Zooniverse: Citizen Science in the Rubin Observatory Era”, 17 contributed talks, 3 roundtable discussions, and 4 major meeting announcements. The event proved highly productive and successful, with all presentation slides available at “https://nadc.china-vo.org/events/cssa2025/info/131”. Extensive media coverage, including multiple English-language reports, can be found at “https://nadc.china-vo.org/events/cssa2025/info/134”. The summit formally established a working definition of Citizen Science: Citizen Science is a research model where the general public collaborates to address a specific scientific question, aiming to generate scientific outcomes. Or in Chinese: &#x516C;&#x4F17;&#x79D1;&#x5B66;&#x662F;&#x56F4;&#x7ED5;&#x4E00;&#x4E2A;&#x5177;&#x4F53;&#x7684;&#x79D1;&#x5B66;&#x95EE;&#x9898;&#xFF0C;&#x4EE5;&#x4EA7;&#x751F;&#x79D1;&#x5B66;&#x6210;&#x679C;&#x4E3A;&#x76EE;&#x6807;&#xFF0C;&#x7531;&#x793E;&#x4F1A;&#x516C;&#x4F17;&#x534F;&#x4F5C;&#x5F00;&#x5C55;&#x7684;&#x4E00;&#x79CD;&#x79D1;&#x7814;&#x6A21;&#x5F0F;&#x3002;
---+++ CVO (Canada)

---+++ ESA (Europe)

---+++ Euro-VO (Europe)

A number of Euro-VO activities are being pursued in the Astro-CC Pilot project. 

A Technology Forum is planned for 7-9 October in Trieste, Italy. Participation is open, details here: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/36318/

A VO School training event is planned for 2-4 December near Madrid. A first announcement will be made soon, and participation will be via application.



---+++ GAVO (Germany)

---+++ JVO (Japan)

---+++ Kazakhstan VO

---+++ NLVO (Netherlands)

---+++ OV-France

---+++ RVO (Russia)

---+++ SA^3 (South Africa)

---+++ SKAO (Square Kilometre Array Observatory; Australia & South Africa)

---+++ SVO (Spain)

---+++ UkrVO (Ukraine)

---+++ USVOA (United States)

---+++ VO-India

---+++ VObs.it (Italy)

   * Radio obscore extension - continued contribution
   * web assets: new server setup with services disentanglement

---+++ Report from the TCG

   * TCG met 2(+1) times since College Park's Interop
      * 26 June: with a wrap up of the June's interop
      * (29 July): chat on IG/TCG/CSP connections
      * 28 August: round table highlights in view of Northern Fall Interop
      * new members welcome
      * Radio IG vice role still open, chair will expire (possible extension) May 2026
   * REC/EN in progress
      * VOEvent-2.1
         * RFC closed but waiting last minute implementations
         * potential last minute change to registry extension
      * StandardsRegExt -1.1 - nearly ready
      * MANGO-1.0 - currently lacking reviews (northern summer break)
   * (among) other documents and standards
      * vocabularies: calibration levels, object types (ongoing works)
      * ObsCore & extensions
      * HATS Note and further steps
   * trying to involve people in a DM hack-a-thon workshop
   * starting steps in a revision of the Documents Standard
      * trying to focus more on take-up before REC stage
   * new web pages
      * should fit in Exec agenda (Media Group connection)
   * astronet.ru publishing registry - still open
   * next TCG vconf on 25 September: focus on interop's programme

---+++ IAU Working Group Report

---+++ Report from the CSP
Topic revision: r7 - 2025-09-10 - MarkAllen
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