For those of you who will be at the Victoria meeting, I am asking for discussion topics and for level of interest for various topics.

Are you interested in VOEvent? Which topic below interests you most? Would you like to join the exciting field of transient astronomy? Do you have an event stream or a robotic telescope? Do you have expertise in messaging protocols?

We need you help on the Event Vocabulary. If you have a favorite type of event that you want a standard name for, please check that the proposed draft vocabulary (VOEventVocabulary) can express its semantics. If not, please write to voevent at ivoa.net with your concern.

Agenda

Monday 15 May 14:00

• 20 min: Roy Williams: What is VOEvent, what are the schema changes (PPT)
• 10 min: discussion: Who has events and who has a robotic telescope?

• Building a real network: Instant Messaging for Astronomy
  • 15 min: Alasdair Allan: TCP Vanilla ( PPT )
  • 15 min: Matthew Graham: Jabber/XMPP (PPT)
  • 15 min: Phil Warner: Java Messaging and Mule
  • 15 min: discussion

Thursday 18 May 16:00

• 20 min: Andrea Preite-Martinez: What caused that event: A proposed IVOA vocabulary for Objects and Processes
• 10 min: Discussion
• 15 min: Matthew Graham: Progress in VOEventNet
• 15 min: Alasdair Allan: Progress in eStar
• 30 min: Open discussion: How to register Publisher and Repository with the VO

Links:
1. VOEvent Working Group

2. VOEvent Vocabulary

3. IVOA Interop, Victoria

• VOEventStandardVocabulary.pdf: VOEvent Standard Vocabulary