Minutes of SG Meeting of 02 02 2000

Present:   T.Cass, M. Cattaneo, C.Gaspar,  J.Harvey, B.Jost, P.Mato, F.Ranjard, I Videau

Excused : T Cass, F.Harris

• Interviews have been made for the LHCb/DAQ vacanacy and an offer is being made now.
• We have made a request for 3 summer students
• We are actively lookly for someone from within the collaboration to support the DAQ in the testbeam. The same person could obviously also contribute to LHCb DAQ/Controls projects.
• Requests for technical students are solicited via the Spanish/Portugese programme.
• The weekly Computing Meeting is moved to Monday afternoon at 14.00. First meeting at this time is March 6th.
• There is now a monthly IT/LHCb coordination meeting held on the first Friday of the month at 2 p.m. The venue will be Salle B near the council chamber. Attendees Joel, Marco, Florence, Pere and Beat.

• Florence pointed out some difficulties in managing releases of SICb. John will discuss with those concerned and try to devise a procedure for allowing better control of the releases.

• Ioana pointed out that the LHCb management would like to have comprehensive reports covering all aspects of the migration at the Computing Meeting in the next LHCb week. There has been much activity in the subdetector groups e.g. RICH code has been ported to GAUDI, calorimeter group are to review their detector description etc.
• The decision on whether to use a commercial SCADA tool has to be taken at the next meeting. David Myers is preparing an agreement to be signed by the four collaborations. Clara will discuss this with Hans Jurgen beforehand to see how he wants to handle it.
• Clara pointed out that there is to be a JCOP Steering Meeting on Feb 22nd (during LHCb week). This is likely to clash with Trigger meeting. We will see if it can be re-arranged.

• The first Steering Panel meeting has been held, reported on by John.
• Goal is to secure funding, setup Computing MoUs. Ioana asked whether it makes sense to produce MoUs before the TDR is finished.
• Guidelines exist for for the Software Panel and LHCb has to give its presentation (answers to questions) on March 15th (tentative). The final report is due by the end of May.
• The four coordinators are sending a memo asking for there to be adequate external experts to solidify the review aspects.