Minutes from the VC of October 9th

Alun suggested in the VC today to create an EDNA Newsletter. I suggested to create a blog, however as Alun pointed out that many people don't follow blogs we agreed that the postings on the blog should also be sent to the EDNA mailing lists. So, this is the first entry in this new blog!

We agreed also in the VC today to do the following amendments to the developers' meeting agenda:

• Alun will give an overview of the possible requirements / use cases in general for workflow tools at synchrotron radiation facilities (Monday October 12th 11:40 - 12:00)
• There will be no parallel sessions on Tuesday October 13th, however the proposed agenda might be changed as a result of the discussions on Monday.
• In order to give some more time for a refreshment in town prior to the meeting dinner we decided to change the departure of the bus from the guest house to 18:30.

I will add detailed descriptions on the agenda were to find the seminar rooms.

Andrew asked which were the goals of the workflow discussions of the meeting next week, and what the impacts would be on the MX developments. I answered that the goals were to set up milestones for any eventual implementation of workflows in EDNA, and that the impacts on MX developments could only be assessed after the meeting next week.

We decided to meet again in two weeks (October 23rd) in order to revise the MX development plan as agreed in the June meeting in Hamburg.