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1. 2006 Kickoff Meeting Wiki

The meeting will be at LASP in Boulder, CO in the LASP auditorium, room 299 upstairs. Visitors please sign in and get a badge at the reception desk.

Telecon call in # 800.503.2899 Access code 4926412 VNC Session 129.174.113.201, password=

1.1. Agenda

The 9:00-12:00 time slot is the part of the meeting that I hope most people can attend. Not everyone will need to attend every section this afternoon and tomorrow (see list of suggested participants at each time slot).

Goals of this telecon:

   * Finalize what ViRBO software will consist of
   * Give feedback to Eric, Dmitry, and Mikhail on what we expect out of a data portal
   * Identify issues on obtaining data we promised
   * Set timeline leading up to first release
   * Discuss ideas for "our niche"

Monday, July 31, 2006

9:00-10:30: Introduction

   * The current state of the community
         o Astronomy VxO
         o LWS VxO Website
         o eGY
         o VSPO
         o VMO
         o VGMO.NET
         o GAIA
         o VSO
         o CSSDP
         o SPDF
         o GFZ
         o PAPCO
         o TSDS
         o CCMC
         o DAS2
         o ViRBO & virbo.org (ViRBO proposal on bottom of page)
   * Summary of interactions about metadata with other VxOs,  SPDF/CDF and SPASE
   * Discussion of surveys. Discussion of users guide and user interaction scenarios
   * Our niche
         o Making sense of it all.  Experts corner?  Data bundles?
         o Modern software engineering tools for scientists to facilitate collaboration
         o Ease of use
   * What should the ViRBO software code base contain?
         o Our two goals were
               + Objective 1: To enable scientific achievement and support hazard mitigation by providing a gateway for scientists, operators, and engineers to obtain an unprecedented combination of high quality, calibrated radiation belt data and model output in a unified form along with useful analysis and visualization tools.
               + Objective 2: To develop a generic, extensible, open software system that will quickly allow new VxOs to be implemented by other communities faced with similar challenges and barriers to scientific and technical advancement .
         o Near term issues
               + Should the algorithms be written in IDL? Matlab? Java with IDL and Matlab wrapper?
                     # IDL/Matlab Advantage: Familiar, 90% user coverage.  Disadvantage: Writing the same codes 2x.
                     # Java Advantage: Write code 1x.  Code can be easily used in web backend.  Disadvantage: Less code contribution from scientists
               + What algorithms should the analysis library contain?
                     # L-shell calculations
                     # Transforms
                     # http://wwwe.onecert.fr/craterre/home.html
               + What should our visualization tools be?  
                     # Basic time series
                     # L vs time
               + Should they be written in IDL? Matlab? Java with IDL and Matlab wrappers?
                     # Basic functions for interacting with ViRBO in both Matlab and IDL.  More advanced stuff in Java with web services call or Java with Matlab/IDL calling a Java library.

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45-12:00: Timeline and Budgets

   * Near term
         o The data (finished after 1.5 years)
         o Intercalibration projects
         o Enter metadata into ViRBO portal
         o Develop viz and analysis software
   * 07 AGU VxO session - most of Objective 1 completed
   * End of 3 years: Have Objective 2 completed
   * Long term?

1:00-3:00: Data and metadata details. (Bob, Janet, Paul, Reiner)

   * Discussion of Matlab file format.
   * LANL Data

3:00-3:15: Break

3:15-5:00: Management (Bob, Eric, Dmitry, Mikhail)

   * Discussion of ViRBO software repository.  What should it contain? How integrated should it be?
   * Discussion of use of SVN (Subversion) for version control of ViRBO software
   * Discussion of content management systems

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

9:00-12:00 Working meeting (Bob, Eric, Dmitry, Mikhail)

   * Start work on ingesting data
   * Start work on metadata