P&S Monthly Telecon - February 13, 2012

Minutes for: ESIP Products & Services Telecon - Monday, Feb 13 @ 1pm CST

Call-in details:

1-877-668-4493

Attendee Access code: 23140358#

WebEx online access: https://esipfed.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=esipfed

Note: the access code above (with no spaces or dashes) is the password for the online access

Participants: Christine White, Erin Robinson, Carol Meyer, Hook Hua, Yuechen, Phil Yang, John Scialdone, "maybe some lurkers"

Agenda:

New ESIP web infrastructure to help support ESIP web development & Testbed activities!!
- Info from Erin about the services being used and how to access
  - Created a GitHub Account here: GitHub - probably other's with testbed activities could also create accounts and then share code with ESIP in these repositories
  - Also have started a Bluehost subscription for general webhosting needs. It has drupal capabilities, but is not limited to drupal.
Present proposed State of the Art Template for committee/working group topical activities
- Opportunity for volunteers to fill out the current draft with their topic as examples for the rest of ESIP
Testbed Task Presentation Series - first up...Christine White and Hook Hua on the Discovery Cluster Task

Meeting Notes:

Discussion of plans for ESIP web hosting service(s) and software management
- Drupal-specific hosting for portal
- Generic web hosting for other functions - to include several of the Testbed tasks as appropriate. Hope to have both production and Test&Integration environments
- GitHub project to host and manage ESIP-related software, with the goal to deploy software from GitHub to the ESIP Test & Integration environment(s) and once verified complete, rollover/copy to production
- discussed what the long-term vision might be for ESIP-provided resources - maybe inclusion of, or migration to cloud resources
- discussion about use of GitHub (or other tools) to host ESIP software
  - there was question/discussion about re-hosting software from other sources in ESIP - e.g. GeoPortal
  - the consensus seemed to be that hosting a new fork of an open-source project is not a problem - probably expected
Presented and discussed the "State of the Art" document that Karl has suggested
- used to document topics of interest within and across ESIP clusters and committees - not for group mission statements
- maybe a good tool for Products&Services to document information about Testbed tasks
- Christine had worked through the template in preparation for today's presentation and had reservations about the "State of the Art" heading/section as that is somewhat intimidating unless a lot of prep and research have gone into the topic. Some alternate terms were suggested and discussed:
  - Comparative Assessment - used in a lot of proposal documents
  - Current Technology Boundaries
  - Current Capabilities
  - Technology History or Background
- Revised Template as a result of Christine Iterating with Karl - they decided on the wording or "Solutions for Addressing the Problem" instead of "State of the Art...."
- Asked for volunteers to attempt documenting testbed tasks with this template. Volunteers are:
  - Christine White for the Discovery task
  - Phil Yang will pick one of GMU's tasks
Start of the Testbed Presentation Series - plan to have one of the Testbed Tasks present overview, plans and status information on each of the monthly telecon
- First up - presentation of the Discovery task by Christine White, with Hook Hua.
  - Overview
  - Vision
  - Technology
  - Status - The team is working closely with the Discovery cluster to gather requirements and solicit participation
  - Plans
- Link to Presentation Slides (pdf)