Attendees

• Marco, Janet, Tim, Anne, Hendrik, Ada, Mark L., Mark T., Gerard, Adrian, James, Laurent, François, Giuliano, Theresa, Pierre

Regrets

• Raffaele, Markus, Mark CD, André, Gregory, Giulia, Tom, Jesus, Christine, Pat, Carlo

Meeting Link

Time: Aug 25, 2021 20:00 UTC (04:00 PM Eastern Time)

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Agenda

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Some further detail in the attached notes text file - see below

ACTIONS

• New
  • Adrian - Follow up with Tom on a PyVO Hacjathon for May
  • Mark CD - to respond to Vandana's feedback at the May Interop - consider a errata/note to add to Utpes to the current Spectrum model
• WORKING
  • ACTION [all]: check and fill in the IVOA Roadmap 2021A. - WG DONE; IG Partial - encourage folks to outline goals for the semester
  • ACTION [all]: review/RFC VODataService-1.2. - Still need to hear from some folks on the RFC page
• DONE
  • ACTION [MM]: send out a reminder on TWiki accounts. (DONE)
  • ACTION [JE/MM]: remove PR-Vocabularies-2.0 line from the TCG On-going RECs table. Same for UDF Catalogue EN from Current Note's one. (DONE)
  • ACTION [UCDList v.1.4 editors]: endorsed, push 1.4 to repo
  • ACTION [JE/MM]: remove UCDList-1.4 from TCG Current Note table. (DONE)
  • ACTION [all/new members]: ask IVOADoc for a TWiki account (used also for personal landing page in TWiki). Instructions for email available at new user registration page.

Meeting agenda

• Welcome to the (Near) End of Northern Summer!!
• TCG Ongoing Recommendations / Endorsed Notes /Errata
  • VODataService 1.2 (Rec) - 3 groups have responded, rest have not
  • VEP006 & 007 (Note) 006 has 4 new terms - #calibration, #bias, #dark, #flat; 007 - adds #detached-header -- MD presented last meeting - Are with good with this??
    • missing Markus, François report on the two VEPs: 006 seems not to have an agreed solution, will need new discussion; 007 might be easier, but not enough discussed - decision postponed
• Highlights - Go around the Virtual Table (WG/IGs) Working on/Aiming towards!!
  • WG - Apps, DAL, DM, GWS, Registry, Semantics
  • IG - DCP, Edu, KDD, Ops, Radio, Solar Sys, Theory, Time Domain
• Next Interop - Nov 2-4 (Virtual 3 day meeting)
  • Save the Date email to go out to Interop List in Early Sept
    • discussed on schedule and video recording advertising
  • Special Session??
    • We discussed one on Interops going forward (Mixed meeting accomodating 'in person' & remote)
      • Discussion on mixed/hybrid physical/remote meetings: highlighted pros and cons, looking forward to more experience in hybrid solution, also technically
  • Should we solicit outside sessions or do folks within the WG/IG think they need the schedule space this time
    • try to focus on invited contributions rather than a general call, also because the Nov. Interop is a short one
  • Education - pre-Workshop session??
    • there will be, like in May, updating that one or adapting the ADASS tutorial one
• Architecture Doc -- PD summary
  • Missing Pat (new DocStdProc chair) it is reported that the Note should be finalised now that GMS is in RFC and thus it completes the AAI section.
• AOB
  • Ada (CSP) asks about PyVO/astropy follow up meetings: Apps coordination will check
  • Ada (CSP) asks for follow up on Spectral Access/Spectrum DM updates: SSA will see some updates, SpecDM might see an addendum or errata while waiting CUBE DM for a major revision
  • Hendrik (Edu) alerts about the https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/EduResourcesTutorials page and asks for contributions
  • Keep advertising the KDD and CSP vice-chair positions, still open
• Next meeting
  • TCG meeting on Wednesday September 15 - 20:00 UTC