Pre-Panel Meeting

Friday 21 Oct 2022, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

Zoom

Zoom link

11:00 → 11:10 Welcome, Introduction & Apologies

Catherine would like to record this meeting to ease the note-taking process. Any objections?

We have an email list for panel members + Catherine: STFC-DI-Review@cern.ch.

Speakers: Catherine Jones (STFC UKRI), Tony Cass (CERN)

STFC-DI-Review-Panel-Bios.docx

STFC-DI-Review-Panel-Bios.pdf

11:10 → 11:20 Purpose of the Review

Speaker: Andrzej Sawko (STFC UKRI)

Purpose of the DigitaI Infrastructure Department Review.pdf

Purpose of the DigitaI Infrastructure Department Review.pptx

11:20 → 11:25 Conflicts of Interest

Speaker: Catherine Jones (STFC UKRI)

11:25 → 11:40 ToR Discussion

• Are these clear?
• Is anything in scope that we don't think should be?
• Are there additional points we thing should be in scope?

Speaker: Tony Cass (CERN)

DI Department Review ToR.docx

DI Department Review ToR.pdf

11:40 → 12:10 Review of paperwork provided

And identification of areas for further clarification

See the attached presentation. Who has reviewed the documents? At all or in depth?

Speaker: Tony Cass (CERN)

DocumentationProvided.pdf

DocumentationProvided.pptx

12:10 → 12:25 Panel meeting agenda/process

1. And decide who from the stakeholder groups should be interviewed.Catherine has suggested
   • Tom Griffin (Director of Scientific Computing Dept): as chair of STFC’s IT Committee; this has strategic oversight of IT within STFC
   • Nigel Townley (UKRI’s CTO) as leader if UKRI’s DDAT which provides corporate UKRI IT and overarching strategy.
   • Anton Lawrence (DI) as chair of the IT Operation’s Board:, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operation and development of IT services. It has representatives of the federated IT support teams within STFC.
2. Interactions with DL staff
3. John Ginever would like to have a discussion with Tony Cass before the December 5th meeting. Are we happy with this?
4. Catherine will propose dates in the weeks of January 9^th, 16^th & 23^rd for a follow-up Zoom meeting.

Speaker: Tony Cass (CERN)

12:25 → 12:30 AOB