Workshop

Sumover Mbone tools Workshop: 28-30 November 2005, Computer Science Department, University College London, UK.

The meeting went ahead as planned. The presentations are linked into the final agenda below. A workshop report will be posted here shortly.

The UCL Mbone tools, namely RAT and VIC (as adopted and developed by UCL) have been deployed in a number of conferencing environments, most notably AccessGrid and VRVS. Since UCL has had minimal resources to maintain these tools over the last few years, their development has diverged and fragmented. We plan to change that under the SUMOVER project.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together the key people in the projects that are using the tools and work on a plan for their future support and development. We are looking for your input on what is seen as the most important potential work and development required on the tools.

Meeting Information

Agenda

•  Scaling Multimedia Conferencing, Colin Perkins (University Of Glasgow)
•  AGSC, Mike Daw (University of Manchester)

• VRVS/EVO, Phillipe Galvez (Caltech/Cern)
• VRVS/EVO video/audio tools, Pavel Farkas (Caltech/University in Kosice)
• AcessGrid and the media tools , Tom Uram (Argonne National Labs, USA) [presentation over AG]

• Activities in the IETF, Colin Perkins (University Of Glasgow)
• VRVS video/audio (continued)
• Conferencing and WebC@ast @ DESY, Reinhard Eisberg (DESY)

11:00 Coffee
14:30 Common code base and licensing, Piers O'Hanlon (UCL)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Software management systems, Socrates Varakliotis (UCL)

• Source code Management
• Bug/feature tracking

• Common Library
• ANU use of UCL Common library, Rhys Hawkins (ANU) - presented by Piers O'Hanlon
• RAT

• An intro to the inSORS Grid, Terry Burke (inSORS) [presentation over AG]

• VIC

• Collaboration initiatives
• Formation of Evaluation Steering Group

The current list of 'real' participants:

Those participants who did not attend, though had planned to have been indicated with a line throught their name.