HEPiX Preparation Meeting - Autumn 2023 #2

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Tomoaki Nakamura, Peter van der Reest

16:00 → 16:05 Welcome, Notetaking, Approval of previous meetings' notes

Speakers: Peter van der Reest, Tomoaki Nakamura

16:05 → 16:15 Preparations for the Autumn 2023 meeting

• Update on preparations, hickups, problems or questions to previous organizers
• Preview of Indico page

• Time plan for opening of Indico for abstracts and registrations, Email to hepix-users

• sponsor talk - make sure this is technical talk, no marketing. Extra scrutiny may be advisable.

Speaker: Randall Sobie (University of Victoria (CA))

16:15 → 16:25 Workshop Program

• Tracks
  --- Site Reports
  --- Networking & Security
  --- Storage & Filesystems
  --- Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation & Operating Systems
  --- Computing & Batch Services
  --- IT Facilities & Business Continuity & Green IT (new)
  --- Basic IT Services & End User Services
  --- Show Us Your Toolbox (demonstration)

• AOB
  --- abstract reviewing (to be done in Indico)
  --- track summary

16:25 → 16:35 Future meetings

• Offer
  --- Paris, Pierre-François Honoré (Spring 2024)
  --- Lugano, Dino (spring 2025)

• we need a location for Autumn 2024 (Univ of Oklahoma?)
  --- Peter should contact Horst Severini (not yet done)

• potential new Asian conference venues?

16:35 → 16:40 Search committee

• co-chair (North America)

16:40 → 16:50 Working groups

• Status and plans
  --- CPU Benchmarking
  --- IPv6
  --- Technology Watch

• Informal discussion group
  --- IAM, SSO, 2FA, KeyCloak

16:50 → 16:55 Infrastructure

• Status and updates

16:55 → 17:00 AOB

• Date for next preparation meeting