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Matias Mora edited this page Feb 17, 2015 · 2 revisions
  • Date: Tu Dec 16th 2014, 14:30 UTC
  • Location: Skype
  • Attendees: Alessandro Caproni, Jorge Ibsen, Matthias Fuessling, Matias Mora, Guillermo Gimenez, Jorge Avarias (representing CCB)

Pre-meeting Homework

Agenda

  • ACS Community status.
  • Elect board Chair and define other roles.
  • Approve current community organization outline, or propose improvements.
  • Define community's infrastructure priorities (build system, documentation, etc).
  • Define community's development priorities (code).
  • Define efficient communication channels.
  • Summary:
  • Action items.
  • Tentative date for next meeting.

Minutes

ACB Meeting #1

  • AI Matthias F.: ACS Workshop advanced track comments addition
  • Matias M.: community status overview
  • Board member elected roles:
  • Board chair: Matias M. chair
  • Deputy board chair: Matthias F.
  • ACS Community Organization: approved unanimously
  • AI Matias M.: add board members to wiki
  • AI Matias M.: restrict management pages access/edit?
  • AI All: add e-mail address to github profile
  • Future: define board election protocol
  • AI Alessandro: write protocol and membership rules draft
  • Note to CCB: future CCB size might depend on amount of contributions
  • Community resources:
  • UTFSM build server / repository (maintained for now by Jorge A.)
  • LLAMA: to set up repository mirror (llamaobservatory.org); build of latest ACS release to be set up in Brazil and binaries to mirror as well
  • LLAMA: offers to provide a private area in the LLAMA Wiki.
    • proposal open, but for now we will focus on github-based platforms
  • acs-community.org (hosted in github)
    • AI Guillermo: contact Jonathan and ask about website status
    • AI All: Identify resources to contribute to web platform
  • AI Jorge I.: add community training material based on past ACS Workshop courses
  • Matias F.: CTA needs to internally discuss available resources by beginning of 2015
  • New ACS releases
  • ALMA has already defined which ACS releases are to made available to the public
  • Note to CCB: to establish protocol when ALMA ACS patches are merged into github; formalize a way of giving progress feedback to the community
  • Roadmap
  • Matthias F.: focus on ease of ACS use, and ease of ACS development; individual projects will continue developing areas of interest (e.g. CTA on embedded system)
  • Guillermo: priority for LLAMA is to move to CentOS 7
  • Alessandro: come back to more detailed discussion to define guidelines; coordinate to avoid duplicating efforts; from the current roadmap, ALMA is intending to mainly work on ACS Services and development tools (e.g. plugins)
  • Jorge I.: ESO should provide a list of development goals and timeline and nice-to-haves to facilitate interaction with community; current focus on trying to increase work contribution through existing ALMA-Univserity collaborations; another ACS Workshop to be organized in Chile in early 2015
  • AI Matias M.: start wiki page with potential collaboration projects, to be discussed at next ACB meeting
  • AI All: contribute to this wiki once created
  • Note to CCB: define guidelines for new issue creation as part of patch integration standards
  • Next meeting:
  • Second half of January; to be coordinated by chair(s) through a Doodle poll
  • Report of open action items
  • Discuss development guidelines and collaboration opportunities
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