First VOQL-TEG meeting

[Pedro Osuna]

Dear all,


welcome to the VOQL Technical Experts Group and mailing list (voql-
teg at ivoa.net).

The final configuration of the VOQL Technical Experts Group is as
follows:

NVO:		Alex Szalay
CDS:		Francois Ochsenbein
AstroGrid:	Kona Andrews
CVO:		Pat Dowler
JVO:		Yuji Shirasaki
ESA-VO:		Inaki Ortiz
GVO:		Benjamin Gufler

Doug Tody is invited in the list, as he will be giving the required
inputs from the DAL community for the Table Access Protocol (TAP) that
the VOQL-TEG will create.


I would like to celebrate the first VOQL-TEG teleconf next Monday, Oct
9th. 

Bear in mind that the times are restricted by the fact that we need to
teleconf with USA and Japan at the same time. This puts Yuji in the
worst situation, as he will have to meet at night, but he has kindly
accepted to do so whenever needed.

In principle the teleconf would be held at 13:00 UTC, which I believe
would correspond to 09:00 in USA East Coast and 22:00 in Japan, 15:00 in
Centre Europe (this all depends on the summer time settings, etc., but
we can work the details out later).

Before sending a tentative agenda for discussion on this first teleconf,
I would like to make sure it can be celebrated.

I appreciate that having a full quorum every month to celebrate the
meeting will be quite difficult. I am tempted to establish that the
meetings should be celebrated as soon as there are five out of the seven
representatives (i.e., not counting me). Otherwise we might run into
never being able to celebrate the meeting. I would like to hear your
opinion on this.

As soon as I have inputs from all of you, I will try to pencil an
agenda. I have clear ideas of what is needed to discuss on the first
teleconf, so please wait for my agenda to give your comments.


Please send me your inputs asap.

Thank you for joining this effort, and get ready for the fun. This is
not going to be a piece of cake.... ;-)

Cheers,
P.






-- 
Pedro Osuna Alcalaya

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