Description
Helene, Tiziana, John and Claire had a phone conference last week to discuss the formation of a joint Advisory Group for the GAG and Operations Portal. We have agreement in principal and a timeline in order to do this. It was decided that the place for technical discussions, milestones and dependencies is and will remain the OAT. The GAG is currently used for capturing customer requirements, prioritizing tasks and to announce future plans and releases which roughly coincides with the Operations Portal remit.
Most (but not all) stakeholders attending each group are the same people so it should be a good use of people’s time. We have some small issues to work on (such as deciding on a name, setting up mail lists, announcing the changes to stakeholders etc).
The GAG will hold a regular meeting in November. We then have plans for a joint meeting in December (teleconference) and a first face to face in January/February. Ideally this could run alongside the SA1 meeting, but if this is a problem Helene is able to host the meeting in Lyon.