TCG Meeting (online) - Wed, Sep 13 2023 @ 20:00 UTC

• Attendees : Janet, Marco, Adrian, James, Grégory, Mark CD, Mathieu, Jesus, Sara, Sebastien, Renaud, Tess, Gilles, Hendrik, Raffaele, Steve, Tamara, François, Mark K, Rafael, Pierre F, Francesca
• Regrets : Gus, Baptiste, Ada, Christophe

Actions

• Existing
  • [ALL] - check on DataLink -1.1 RFC to prepare for the next TCG meeting - [*moved to next meeting*]
• New/Restated or modified
  • [ALL] - review documents in RFC (see details below)
  • [JE/MM] - add TCG running list of topics to TCG main wiki

Agenda

(Annotated in Bold with meeting notes after session)

• Few Notes:
  • Home base for TCG : https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaTCG
  • ADASS Nov 5-9 (University of Arizona, Tucson); IVOA Nov 10-12
    • Logistics (from Christophe)
      • Exec meeting on Thursday Nov 9 17:00-18:30
        • Where ? in ADASS venue ?
      • TCG meeting on Friday Nov 10 08:30 – 10:00 or even 08:00-09:30 ?
        • In NOIRLab
        • Followed by the usual IVOA meeting
          • [Finalisation of deatils after Exec meeting on Sep. 18]
  • Northern Spring Interop - Sydney - week of May 12 - Simon initiated planning
• Review current Recs
  • DataLink -1.1 status - Francois says there are still discussions ongoing - HOLD
    • Should be OK for next time, some discussion among authors took place, the idea is not to complicate the spec further
  • ADQL-2.1 status - will be explained at this TCG meeting RFC page
    • Should be OK, but few feedback. Please, read/review to move on
  • Based on email iteration after last mtg, Spectrum Data Model/RFC- it's enough to present the implementation of the providers that requested the change
    • waiting for comments, otherwise ready to go
  • VOUnits-1.1 RFC is available, please contribute
    • should be ready in one week. Vizier will have a look at changes. Prepare for vote, continue reviewing
• 2023 Roadmap Status Review - https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/2023ARoadmap
  • Roadmap status - 2 WG / 2 IG (GWS, Apps, SSIG, OPS done)
  • Let's review 2 WG / 2 IG Roadmaps
    • DAL and Registry for WGs
    • Radio and DCP for IGs
• Nov IVOA Mtg
  • Start of TCG Session planning page: https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ProgramPrepNov2023
  • One suggested session from last mtg: Presentations from data centers explaining their usage of Data Models
  • JE suggestion for keeping up with IVOA user directed web pages - Hackthon at IVOA mtgs to curate pages & find an owner (sent to Exec) - thoughts??
    • a proposal for a standing slot (not necessarily a session one) at interops to gather interested people and move on
• AOB
  • Page to request IVOA un/pw - needs modification (http://mail.ivoa.net/mailman/listinfo/interop)
  • Running list for TG of things we see out of place -or- need to be addressed; candidates for future mtg agenda items or actions
    • https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/TCG_RunningList_2023
      • the topic list will be move to the TCG page also
• Next TCG meeting:
  • Tue. Oct 10 @ 13:00 UTC (4 weeks)
  • IVOA Events page: https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaEvents