EuroVO-DCA Common Board-PCT Meeting

4&5 October 2007, Trieste

This common Board - PCT meeting is organised at the end of Cycle 1, in order to avoid multiple travels and to manage the production of the revised Project Plan (D3; October 2007), a major milestone, in a pragmatic way.

Travel, Accommodation and Visitor Information

• Host: INAF
• Location: INAF- Osservatorio astronomico di Trieste : Via Bazzoni 2 (OAT2 on the city map in the attachments). Cars can be parked inside the garden.
• Wire and wireless connection will be available in the "Sala Pompeiana", where the meeting will be held.
• Accommodation : Here is a list of Trieste Hotels. In some INAF has a special fare (see yellow mark in the list). The hotels which could be practical are SAN GIUSTO, 10 min by foot far from OAT, or CONTINENTALE, in the town centre.
• In the map, the red line indicates the route from the railway station to OAT by car. The blue and green lines indicate the routes of buses from the railway station to the OAT. Bus stops near Hotel Continentale and OAT are drawn in pink. The Black thin line indicates the path by foot from Hotel Continentale to OAT2 (10-15 min)
• Here is the web address of Trieste Airport: http://www.aeroporto.fvg.it/UK/html/index.html. The official taxi fare from the Trieste Airport (Ronchi dei Legionari) to Trieste is about EUR55-60. There is also a Bus line from the Airport to the Trieste railway station (3 euro). Timetable is available here. If you plan to land at the Venice Airport remember that you need about 1.5 -2 hours by car to arrive at OAT2 in Trieste.
• Mrs Alice Sossi (who have provided all this useful information) is available if someone needs help to book the hotel : sossi@oats.inaf.it - +39 040 3199181.

Attendees

Please indicate below your attendance to the meeting and to the dinner on Thursday Oct 4.

• Board members:

Name	Partner	Meeting Oct 4	Meeting Oct 5	Dinner Oct 4
Edwin Valentijn	NOVA	Y	Y	Y
Enrique Solano	INTA	Y	Y	Y
Fabio Pasian	INAF	Y	Y	Y
Francoise Genova	CNRS	Y	Y	Y
Mark Allen	PS	Y	Y	Y
Martin Kessler	ESA	N	N	N
Mike Watson	LU	N	N	N
Paolo Padovani	ESO	Y	Y	Y
Wolfgang Voges	MPG	N	N	N

• PCT members:

Objectives

• Assessment of Cycle 1 activity
• Preparation of the revised Project Plan for Cycle 2 (deliverable D3); also for WP3-6.
• Preparation of the First periodic report to EU (deliverable D15, under WP1 responsibility)
• Discussion of the Data Centre census information collection and collation

Agenda

Thursday, 4 October 2007

Friday, 5 October 2007

The Board-PCT meeting agenda (word version) is available here.

Meeting Folder

• Project Schedule
• Preliminary Project plan
• Draft Preliminary Census
• Draft Periodic activity report
• Draft Periodic management report
• Annex Draft Periodic management report

Meeting Minutes

The minutes of the Board-CT meeting are available:

• Minutes Board-PCT (Final)
• Annex 1 - Actions to be taken
• Annex 2 - Self evaluation matrix
• Annex 3 - Risk Register

-- MathiasDepretz - 20 Nov 2007