<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>The agenda for today's discussion:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">-------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-family: Consolas; ">one of the portal links like <a href="http://pcmdi9.llnl.gov/">http://pcmdi9.llnl.gov</a>.</div><div><br></div></span></div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000">Plan:<br>Dean - Introduce the ESGF P2P Node and recap the above agenda.<br> - Start the ball rolling by pointing everyone to the main ESGF P2P Node wiki page:<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGF_Index">http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGF_Index</a><br> - Give a system overview:<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGF_Overview">http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGF_Overview</a><br> - Discuss the vision and how the project works.<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGF_Manifesto">http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGF_Manifesto</a><br><br>Luca - Functionality<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGF_Functionality">http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGF_Functionality</a><br> - Architecture<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGF_Architecture">http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGF_Architecture</a><br> - Interface groups (how we work)<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGFInterfaceGroups">http://esgf.org/wiki/ESGFInterfaceGroups</a><br><br>John - ESGF User Interface (administration, search & download)<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/wiki/fe-user-guide">http://esgf.org/wiki/fe-user-guide</a><br><br>Gavin - Releases & Components (the stack)<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/releases/">http://esgf.org/releases/</a><br> - Installation<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/wiki/Cmip5DataNode/InstallationProcedure">http://esgf.org/wiki/Cmip5DataNode/InstallationProcedure</a><br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rainbow.llnl.gov/dist/">http://rainbow.llnl.gov/dist/</a><br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/esgf-installer-site/">http://esgf.org/esgf-installer-site/</a><br> - Roadmap<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://esgf.org/wiki/RoadMap">http://esgf.org/wiki/RoadMap</a><br> - Timelines <br> * Sort term monthly release cycles, elongated after full standard functionality established)<br> - Quick governance (more details deferred for another discussion)<br> * Every project has a project leader with one or more work group initiatives <br> (Luca, John & Feiyi, Rachana & Neill, Bob, Estani, Stephen, Gavin, Sandro)<br> * There is an ESGF Node <i>coordinator</i> that puts together the releases and helps coordinate overall testing (Gavin)<br> * <i>Project Leaders</i> manager all project related activities and meet together with coordinator to create a release.<br> * There is a <i>director</i> that expresses the overall direction and initiatives for the project a whole (Dean [et. al.])<br> - Repos are administered by the Project Leaders who may delegate to lieutenants as they choose... et. al.<br> - It is encouraged that Repo forks should live at <a href="http://esgf.org/">esgf.org</a>, email coordinator for forks.<br> (overall flat org structure)<br> <br>Key concepts:<br>Collaboration with broad developer community. Merit based system of contribution. Delegated hierarchy.<br>Ability to provide agile response to user community needs. Customizable "scale-out" architecture.<br>Open standards where possible, community (working group) standards where needed.<br><br>Ex:<br>Sandro and Gavin - visiting, working on Dashboard<br>Zed and Estani work on installer<br>Estani - visiting to work on deep storage "stager" project and download / replication.<br>Stephen, Luca, Phil, Neill, Rachana - work on interoperable standards based security interface and infrastructure.<br>Bob & Feiyi publisher collaboration and integration.<br>etc....</div></blockquote></body></html>