IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM101)

When: October 19, 2021
Time: 1pm (UTC)

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*Agenda TM101

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Minutes of TM100
3. Review of Exec ACTIONS
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Overall TCG Status
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
   • VODataService 1.2 standard
7. Future Interop meetings: Northern Fall meeting organization updates
8. CSP Status
9. Collaboration between IVOA and IAU: strategy for engagement

10. IVOA and Blockchain Open Development protocols.

11. AOB
12. Date of next Exec meeting
13. Review of New Action Items

Reports from the Projects:

Argentina-NOVA

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO (ASVO)

BRAVO

China-VO

ChiVO

CVO

Euro_VO

ESA

France VO

GAVO

HVO

NLVO

JVO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Vo-India

VObs.it

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

Report from the TCG

• Last meeting Oct 13, next meeting Oct 27
• Forwarded Architecture Doc on Oct 14 to BB for Exec review as an Endorsed Note with Exec review
• Forwarded VODataService-1.2 to BB for Exec review
• Current Recs in TCG review: GMS 1.0; EN-TAP 2.0, SimpleDALRegExt-1.2
• IVOA Interop - currently 84 attendees; Schedule in place; another reminder will go out this week
  • ADASS will have Gathertown for Posters (they are paying for a month and we fall within the timeframe)
  • Edu session on Nov 01
  • WG/IG leading sessions during interop

Report from the CSP

• First meeting took place on the 30th of September 2021.
• Membership: discussed possibility of adding a bio to the wiki for each member. Status: Still gathering information.
• Follow-up on feedback gathered during and in between interops. Status: continuous effort through participation to running meetings, TCG meetings, different slack channels and GitHub repos.
• Interop prep: The CSP will have a panel session around how we interact with astronomers to improve their experience with our services and tools and how this can help us to improve our services / tools. We have six confirmed panelists representing different organisations.