Dear All,

     Please find attached the weekly GridPP Project Management
Board Meeting minutes. The latest minutes can be found each week in:

http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/pmb/minutes/this-week.txt

(as well as being listed with other minutes e.g. 020211.txt).

            Cheers, Tony
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Tony Doyle, GridPP Project Leader            Telephone: +44-141-330 5899
Rm 482, Kelvin Building                        Telefax: +44-141-330 5881
Dept of Physics and Astronomy           EMail: [log in to unmask]
University of Glasgow             Web: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~doyle
G12 8QQ, UK                                     Video - IP: 194.36.1.234
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                 GridPP PMB Minutes 21 - 11th February 2002

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Present: Dave Britton, Nick Brook, Tony Cass, Tony Doyle, John Gordon, 

Steve Lloyd.



Apologies: Robin Middleton, Roger Barlow.



Review of Actions

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ACTION 15.2 TD to iterate with Oversight (OS) committee on understanding

management of the Tier-2 centres. Ongoing.



ACTION 17.9 SL with Andrew McNab; improve website. Ongoing.



ACTION 17.11 TD Contact Astrogrid project manager and see what we can learn.

Tony still hasn't heard from him. Neil had said he could help.



ACTION 17.14 JG revise Tier 1/A staffing plans. This has started. There is

nothing to report yet.



ACTION 17.19 DB process spreadsheet from PC and use in reporting. DB has

looked at the spreadsheet and is learning how to use Excel macros to make a

database of work segments from it.



ACTION 17.23 PC, RM , NB  and Frank Harris to improve communication of TB

and EB with WP8. Stephen Burke is double booked on WP8 and so Frank will give

his input at the Collaboration meeting.



ACTION 17.26 PC & TC to get grid certificates and learn how to update the

GridPP website. JG can down add people to the list of webmasters. PC is

getting Ben West to look after the TB are. Ben is in contact with SLL.



ACTION 17.28 RB Provide BaBar+Intergrid slides for Robin. There is a BaBar

meeting on Tuesday and the slides will be sent on Wednesday.



ACTION 17.30 NB and RB to finalise EB meeting at end of March. NB needs to

chase up replies to his email.



ACTION 18.3 SLL to get GridPP personnel details on website. SL has had 33

replies to his call for details so far.



ACTION  20.1: PC & TD to produce integrated risk assessment document & GANTT

charts for OS meeting in April. Ongoing.



ACTION 20.2: PC will produce a draft document outlining procedures and help

available for installing Grid middleware/EDG testbed releases. A document was

produced for last Friday's meeting. There are different levels of users - 

'core' (RAL, Manchester, IC and Bristol) and those that rely on a more

production service. Some sites could have users in both categories. NB

confirmed that Bristol is happy to be a core site. The question of where CERN

fits in was raised.



ACTION 20.3: PC will also raise issue of MDS/R-GMA at this week's TB

meeting. There was no information available about this.



ACTION 20.4: JG to find out what WP3 tools are being used & deployed in EDG,

liaise with Antony Wilson. JG confirmed that the current situation is that

no-body is using the MDS tree information, for various reasons. A new GIS is

being set up at CERN and who is able to input to it will be controlled.



ACTION 20.5: NG to finalise written document describing how PPARC controls

unfunded EU effort with Fab. Ongoing.



ACTION 20.6: SLL to provide NG with GridPP personnel details. It was thought

that this was more a question of putting names against work areas. Possibly it

is something that could be discussed at Cambridge.



ACTION 20.7: SLL to send formal email to PMB reporting CB response to RAL 

recruitment with copies to appropriate PPARC people. This was done. SLL is not

expecting a formal reply from the PMB.



Collaboration Meeting

=====================



TD needs a couple of slides from TC. PC has already sent some. NB will send

some when he gets input from the EB. The agenda needs updating and the web

site linking from GridPP pages. (done by SLL during the meeting).



The meeting ended early because of audio problems.



Actions 11/02/02

================



ACTION 15.2: TD to iterate with Oversight (OS) committee on understanding

management of the Tier-2 centres.



ACTION 17.9 SL with Andrew McNab; improve website.



ACTION 17.11 TD Contact Astrogrid project manager and see what we can learn.



ACTION 17.14 JG revise Tier 1/A staffing plans.



ACTION 17.19 DB process spreadsheet from PC and use in reporting.



ACTION 17.23 PC, RM , NB  and Frank Harris to improve communication of TB

and EB with WP8.



ACTION 17.28 RB Provide BaBar+Intergrid slides for Robin.



ACTION 17.30 NB and RB to finalise EB meeting at end of March.



ACTION 18.3 SLL to get GridPP personnel details on website.



ACTION  20.1: PC & TD to produce integrated risk assessment document & GANTT

charts for OS meeting in April.



ACTION 20.5: NG to finalise written document describing how PPARC controls

unfunded EU effort with Fab.



ACTION 20.6: SLL to provide NG with GridPP personnel details as a function

of e-Science Project mapping areas.