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  • Date: Monday, May 11th 2015, 14:00 UTC
  • Location: Skype
  • Attendees: Alessandro Caproni, Matthias Fuessling, Guillermo Gimenez, Jorge Ibsen, Matias Mora, Jorge Avarias (as CCB Chair)

Pre-meeting Homework

Previous Action Items

  • AI Matias M.: iterate project notes and comments with the board and issue a public announcement DONE
  • AI Matias M.: create admin sub-repo to have a read-only wiki area for certain topics, only editable by board members DONE
  • AI Matthias F.: ACS Workshop advanced track comments addition TODO
  • AI Jorge I.: add e-mail address to github profile DONE
  • AI Jorge I.: add community training material based on past ACS Workshop courses TODO (as part of ongoing course organization)
  • AI Alessandro: add e-mail address to github profile TODO
  • AI Guillermo: follow up on web page status with Jonathan; inform the board if help is needed to make progress IN PROGRESS (first web site version is up)
  • AI All: seek resources for high priority projects IN PROGRESS

Agenda

  • ACS Community status and update on previous action items.
  • Board Chair and Deputy Board Chair election.
  • Define community service tasks path forward
    • Infrastructure: build farm(s) and binary distribution (incl. mirrors)
    • ACS workshops/courses
    • Documentation
    • Web site
  • ACS development projects
    • Identify at least one high-impact project to focus resources in short term.
  • Summary:
    • Action items.
    • Tentative date and topic for next meeting.

Minutes

  • Review of past action items (see comments above).

  • Matias M. stepping down as Chair for personal availability reasons, but will remain as board member. Jorge I. unanimously named new Chair (effective at the end of this meeting), Matthias F. to remain Deputy Chair. Office will be held until June 2016 (update during SPIE 2016 in Edinburgh).

  • Discussion of ongoing activities and path forward related to community services

    • Infrastructure:
      • ALMA donating 20 machines to Chilean universities to set up as distributed buildfarms. Donation to be effective during June.
      • UTFSM prototype build+test server up and running (see #4 and #25).
      • Student working at ALMA office (in ALMA collaboration framework) on buildfarm and binary distribution design and prototyping (see #36).
      • Jorge A. giving overview of buildfarm and mirrors status. Ongoing efforts seem to be enough for CCB needs. CCB patch procedure document is in draft status and will be circulated soon.
    • ACS Courses:
      • Jorge I. is organizing an ACS course to be held at Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) in Chile during June.
      • Goal is to attract interest to the acs-community and motivate people to participate in community projects.
      • So far 10 students from UFRO have expressed interest. The public announcements will be issued once date is fixed.
      • Course material to be updated for this course. The acs-community wiki will be used as the official course platform (i.e. all material will be available as official reference).
    • Documentation
      • ACS courses update material and code examples with every new edition
      • Short user tutorials could be prepared by newcomers and reviewed by the community; an initial effort to produce such tutorials could be integrated as part of upcoming ACS course
      • ALMA is also discussing future approach towards better documentation at a management meeting next week
    • Public Web site
      • Important to publicize community to a general audience
      • A first version is (see #29)
      • Gather feedback on current prototype

  • Astro-Engineering workshop in Chile

    • Sponsored by the Chilean Government (CORFO and Economics Ministry); contact person is Jorge I.
    • Dates should be fixed in mid-June (for mid-November)
    • Will be focused on astronomy industry development and technological transfer with related industries
    • LLAMA and CTA potentially to participate

  • ACS development projects

    • Some high and mid priority projects are being worked on at the different sites. We need to make activity more visible to the community, initially through the issue tracker.
    • Matias M. proposes to identify at least one high-impact project that can be successfully completed before mid-2016 to showcase the ability of the community to produce collaborations and deliver results.

  • Next meeting: After ACS Workshop (before mid-July); to focus on community "manpower" status and feasible projects for the second semester.

  • AI Jorge: send new Chair announcement and ACB status to acs-community-announce (Matias M. to prepare a draft)

  • AI Jorge: send email notification to acs-community-announce list as soon as dates are fixed

  • AI Matthias F.: ACS Workshop 2014 advanced track comments addition

  • AI Matthias F.: gather list of projects currently being worked on by CTA (status to be reported on associated tickets)

  • AI Alessandro: add e-mail address to public github profile

  • AI Alessandro: write ACB protocol and membership rules draft

  • AI Guillermo: add ongoing LLAMA activity to corresponding issue tickets

  • AI Guillermo: follow up on web page status with Jonathan (see #29)

  • AI Guillermo: create Wikipedia sandbox draft on ACS and ACS-Community (see #39)

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