Third Euro-VO Technology Forum

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Important: The dates of this meeting have been changed. It now ends on Wednesday 18th.

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Strasbourg, 16-18 March 2009

The meeting intends to provide joint planning, sharing of best practice, dissemination of results, and technology exchange for all Euro-VO partners. It will also aim at gathering the present status of the work on the standards development in preparation for the Strasbourg May IVOA Interoperability meeting.

Dates and general information

The DS Planning meetings will be held at the Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, Strasbourg, France, 16th-19th March 2009

Strike warning on March 19th : at present (February 24th) it is expected that many sectors will be hit. It has therefore been decided to reduce the duration of the meeting by one day (see announcement above)

The observatory is located in the Downtown campus (Esplanade). Please refer to directions on how to get there. The "Observatoire" tram station (line C towards Esplanade) is located just in front of the observatory.

Registration Deadline: 6th March 2009

Workshop Dinner

There will be no formal workshop; dinner, but we will make efforts to co-ordinate a gathering if that is the general preference.

Accommodation and Visitor information

Hotels

Please book your hotel rooms directly. Hotels in the centre of Strasbourg will be convenient as the Observatory is within walking distance (20 min) and can be accessed via tram (Tram Stop 'Observatoire').

The Strasbourg Tourist office has useful travel links including accomodation booking http://www.otstrasbourg.fr/?lang=en

Also, some of the nearby hotels are listed here: http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/observatoire/hotels.html although price information is probably out of date.

Provisional Agenda

Mon 16	10:00	Registration - Coffee
	10:30	Welcome	FrancoiseGenova
	10:45	AIDA: Project Review and Milestones (including Wp2 Report)	FrancoiseGenova
	11:15	WP1 Report	FrancoiseGenova
	11:45	WP3 Report (pdf)	AurelienStebe
	12:30	Lunch
	14:00	WP4 Overview (pdf)	PaoloPadovani
	14:45	WP5 report (pps)	MassimoRamella
	15:30	WP6 Report	KeithNoddle
	16:15	WP7 Report	PedroOsuna
	17:00	Close
Tues 17	09:30	Introduction to Day Two
	09:45	WP8 report	ThomasBoch
	11:00	Hack-a-thon / Science & Management meetings
	12:30	Lunch
	14:00	Hack-a-thon / Science & Management meetings
	17:00	Close
Weds 18	09:30	Hack-a-thon
	11:00	WP3 Plans (pdf)	AurelienStebe
	11:30	WP4 Input to other Work Packages (pdf)	PaoloPadovani
	12:00	WP5 Plans	MassimoRamella
	12:30	Lunch
	14:00	WP6 Plans	KeithNoddle
	14:30	WP7 Plans	PedroOsuna
	15:00	WP8 Plans (pdf)	ThomasBoch
	15:30	Wrap-up
	16:00	Close of meeting

Attendees

Please indicate below the days on which you will be attending the DS Planning Meetings

(Can you please note any dietary requests that you might have - vegetarian, no nuts, vegan, etc - so that we can arrange the correct selection of lunches)

Name	Monday 16	Tuesday 17	Wednesday 18	Dietary requests
Keith Noddle	Y	Y	Y	N
Francoise Genova	Y (morning only)	N	N
Massimo Ramella	Y (after ~3pm)	Y	Y	N
André Schaaff	Y	Y	Y	N
Thomas Boch	Y	Y	Y
Patrizia Manzato	Y(NO morning)	Y	Y
Giulia Iafrate	Y (no morning)	Y	Y
Riccardo Smareglia	Y (afternoon only)	Y	Y
Marco Molinaro	Y (only afternoon)	Y	Y
Florian Freistetter	Y (only afternoon)	Y	Y
Paolo Padovani	Y	Y	Y	N
Alberto Micol	Y	Y	Y
FabienChereau	Y	Y	Y
Carlos Rodrigo	Y	Y	Y
Alexandre Richard	Y	Y	Y
BrunoRino	Y	Y	Y
Pierre Fernique	Y	Y	Y
Brice Gassmann	Y	Y	Y
Sebastien Derriere	Y	Y	Y
Paul Harrison	Y (afternoon only)	Y	Y
Mark Taylor	Y (only afternoon)	Y	Y
Pedro Osuna	Y	Y	Y
Jesus Salgado	Y	Y	Y
Aurelien Stebe	Y	Y	Y
MireilleLouys	Y	Y	Y
Francois Bonnarel	Y	Y	Y
Main.NoelWinstanley	Y	Y	Y
Norman Gray	Y	Y	N	veggie
Jean-Charles Meunier	Y (no morning)	Y	Y
Yohann Granet	Y	Y	Y

Anita Richards	Y	Y	Y
MarkAllen	Y	Y	Y

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-- KeithNoddle - 23 Feb 2009