TCG Meeting (online) - Tue, Feb 15 2022 @ 20:00 UTC

• Attendees : JE, MM, TD, AD, JD, GM, LM, GT, ThD, MD, HH, RDA, MT, ML, FB, AR, BC, BM, MCD, PD, AN, FC

• Regrets : JS

Meeting details

TCG Meeting - Tue, Feb 15 @20:00 UTC

ACTIONS

• Existing
  • Dave - integrate code of conduct with IVOA current one and move repo to github.com/ivoa [ONGOING]
  • GT prepare GMS-1.0 PR and JE/MM review and send to Exec [ONGOING]
  • JE/MM review and send SimpleDALRegExt-1.2 to Exec [ONGOING]
• NEW
  • JE/MM - start wiki/web/registration steps for April Interop schedule and attendance
  • LM+MCD - define and set the RFC dates for meas/coords documents

Meeting Agenda

(Annotated in Bold with meeting notes after session)

• Sad news Doug Tody's passing: thinking about saying/writing a few words, including at oncoming interop
• April Interop Planning and Discussion
  • agenda structure
    • Plenary / CSP: High Energy astrophysics session with talks followed by a panel discussion (better back-to-back)
    • Workshop(s)
      • python could be, but needs some specific interest
      • specific topics of interest with hands-on during the week
      • difficult to find a proper format while in online mode, also attention span is difficult
    • Publishing in the VO Session: introductory session(s) before the interop's opening
  • Abstracts for talks:
    • WG/IG managed organisation of sessions: solicit explicit abstracts to report in the schedule pages
    • through registration page?
    • If too many - is it time to assign posters and use gathertown to present no posters, too much work w.r.t. benefit
  • gather.town: test the use of the free of charge solution and check whether it suffices (ObAs gather space will be used)
  • Registration page this and similar setups will be taken care by TCG coord and INAF partner
    • (Post code of conduct)
    • Update IVOA front page
    • TCG Planning twiki page
    • Emails to IVOA, announcements, ...
    • Discussion
  • WG/IG session requests - https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ProgramPrepVirtualApr2022
• Northern Fall Interop: discussion date - currently week of Oct 17 (based on our recommendation & Exec approval)
  • keep the week of Oct. the 17th
• (quickly) ongoing documents review moved to next TCG meeting, only alerted about MOC-2.0 and SSA-1.1 Err.2
  • link to TCG wiki topic section
• (quickly) highlights from WGs/IGs - better if focused if towards April's Interop to be discussed at next TCG meeting
• CSP
  • survey on data providers/archives will be advertised soon and reported in CSP session at Interop
• Next TCG meeting: Tuesday, March 08 2022 @ 20:00 UTC