* ACAT abstract submission deadline: 29 April 2017
        * https://indico.cern.ch/event/567550/abstracts/
    * CERN Openlab workshops with aim of identifying potential areas of work
      for the next three-year phase of CERN openlab (phase VI)
        * Data Center Technologies and Infrastructures, March 1, agenda:
          http://tinyurl.com/l4ru23o
        * Compute Platforms and Software, March 23, agenda:
          http://tinyurl.com/l3uddp6
        * Machine learning and data analytics, April 27, agenda not yet
          available
            * We will be asked to give a talk about the Intel Big Data project
    * Community White Paper (CWP): A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D
      for the 2020s
        * main page: http://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/activities/cwp.html
        * working groups:
          http://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/cwp/cwp-working-groups.html
        * Data Analysis and Interpretation WG: google docs:
          http://tinyurl.com/jsxytph
            * Planned workshops
                * CWP discussions at HEP Analysis Ecosystem Retreat, May 22-24
                  (agenda: http://tinyurl.com/lctgf3f)
        * Machine Learning WG: google docs: http://tinyurl.com/m559fmy
            * Planned workshops
                * a CWP session during the IML topical workshop at CERN, March
                  20 - 22, 2017
                * a CWP session (TBC) during DS@HEP 2017, FNAL May 8 - 12, 2017
        * subscribe to the google groups to stay informed and maybe get
          involved
    * Monthly Intel/Openlab meeting -> Vagg is going to join the meeting and
      report