WLCG Open Technical Forum [Indico Category]:

• Recent meeting at the FTS & XRootD Workshop (OTF#7) 

• Planning OTF#8 for early February, with a focus on tape performance

WLCG Workshop on Heterogeneous Architectures

• The Indico agenda is populated and speakers mostly confirmed: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1526077/timetable/
• 67 registrants, according to Indico

Work on the WLCG Technical Roadmap (TR) is progressing within the TCB:

• Data management (Ch. 3) and Network (Ch. 4) are already quite advanced.

• Most other areas have met and are discussing the path forward.

• Goal to complete in H2 of 2026.

• Question relevant for Ch. 1 of the TR: Who is the main contact for the new task force on the computing resource model for HL-LHC?

Technical Roadmap Chapters (for reference)

1. Experimental Computing Requirements
2. Facility Evolution
3. Data Management
4. Network Infrastructure and Management
5. Workflow Management
6. Security and Authentication & Authorization Infrastructure 
7. Services
8. New Architectures and Infrastructures
9. Sustainability