IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM105)

When: April 19, 2022
Time: 8pm UTC

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Topic: IVOA Exec TM105

*Agenda TM105

1. Roll Call and Agenda
   • Regrets: C. Cui
2. Minutes of TM104
3. Review of Exec ACTIONS_for_TM105.pdf
4. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
5. Overall TCG Status
6. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
7. Future Interop meetings
8. CSP Status
9. SKAO as an IVOA member
10. Chair and Vice Chair open positions
11. IVOA landing page
12. AOB
13. Date of next Exec meeting
14. 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

France VO annual meeting took place last week from Monday to Wednesday.

GAVO

HVO

NLVO

JVO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

Vo-India

VObs.it

Ukraine_VO

USVOA

Report from the TCG

Interop planning front and center - ~130 signed up so far

• Program published, sessions set up with WGs/IGs
• Sent out reminder to Interop list on April 12, last reminder planned later this week
• WG/IG setting up sessoin pages that link off of the program; ~ 1/2 done

Advertised highlights on Poster in last mailing:

• Newcomers sesstion - Mon
• IVOA Engagement with the IAU - Tue
• Publishing Data In the VO/Results of recent IVOA usage survey - Tue
• Hack-a-thon - Thu

Few side meetings planned in Gathertown - Plan to use CDS paid version of Gathertown (in coordination with M Allen)

• Hack-a-thon gathering place between 2 sessions scheduled in program
• MCD planning

We're missing not being at the Interop in person - this will be our 5th virtual interop

• Not seeing a lot of Positive energy in group, though folks are trying
  • difficult missing the face to face collaboration and idea exchanges
  • also seems like folks are working against very challenging schedules/deadlines for their own work projects
• New Ch/V Ch that haven't been part of face to face IVOA & are not catching on so well
  • I think we see this in the Apps V Chair feeling he's not ready for the Chair position
  • See it in other positions not up for renewal this time too
• Wonder if we should come up with another possible Host for the Fall Interop ???

Report from the CSP

• Newcomers session : History of the IVOA (Bruce Berriman) + Intro to the IVOA (Ada Nebot) + tutorial (Hendrik Heinl + Dave Morris)
• CSP panel session : summary on the Project Survey + 4 panelists confirmed and the program is up
• CSP status :
  • gathering high energy astronomy community (aiming northern fall interop for a session on the topic)
  • Spectral Lines: LineTAP & SLAPV2 : authors of documents will meet and talk about the next steps