ECOI group weekly
Room 42/1-018
The meeting was fully dedicated to the chatbot project, described in very nice slides.
The deadline for early contributions and feedback is May 1st, as the team will then rework on the tool and will submit it for validation to the FCC Pillars coordinators.
The discussion helped to clarify the expected role of the PED pillar during this "Sprint" phase:
- Input documents: are currently curated by Panos, who already integrated well known sources such as the Feasibility Study report --> We can review the list and propose new documents. Many projects have evolved since the FS report, e.g. on the Detector R&D side, and conference proceedings could maybe be added.
- Balance between topics: can we identify a small team representing the whole PED activity spectrum, e.g. one per work package ? For ECR, Armin was connected and will follow up.
- The existing documents mention FCC-ee and FCC-hh explicitely and on the same footing. The changes in the scientific programme (e.g. supression of the top run and descoping) as well as reformulations by the CERN management (renaming of FCC-ee as FCC) or any rephrasing by the council will have to be implemented at a later stage, as they will not be publicly endorsed in time for the "Sprint" --> We will thus proceed with the Feasibility Study style.
A lot will happen in June, including a presentation at the FCC week but also (and more importantly for outreach) contacts with the Visit Service. Matthiew mentions that discussions on the CERN guides training have started, and that the Education team is very interested. A few of us think that an App would be more adapted than a web portal for guides struggling with questions "on the field".
The timescale for the opening to the public looks a bit optimistic to some of us, but it is in the hands of the CERN/ECO team. It will happen via the cern.ch/FCC web area and social media. Interplay with the current French and Swiss "consultation" is in the hands of the dedicated team, not ours.
We conclude that a lot will happen in the coming months and a brainstorming on "new ideas" will be more relevant in fall. We'll have to see, in particular, if it is relevant to push "on the physics programme side" beyond the current use cases.
Languages: French, English and Spanish are already in. The team wants to cover next the CERN members and associated states, which of course makes sense given the council discussions. We suggest to also take into account the collaboration map: https://fcc.web.cern.ch/collaboration [given that CERN has signed an MoU with those institutes ]