December 1, 2005, 10h

Agenda

• Protokoll of previous meeting
• Definition of our aims. What do we want? Control systems for Experiments and interaction/interfaces with DAQ and Accelerator? Or control systems for DAQ? Or do we understand ourselves more as a kind of controls coordination group that works out recommendations? Or are we a working group that actually provides tools and intefaces that can be used in real life?
• Commitments of FAIR collaborations
  In order to make this series of meetings efficient we definitely need commitments of the FAIR collaborations and affected groups. Do we want to go for a Memorandum of Understanding?
• Controls School
  I proposed at ICALEPCS 2005 to organize a Controls School. I will report about the ongoing discussion. Are the member of FAIR collaborations interested in such a Controls School?
• EMailList for invitations etc.
• ...

Participants:

Meeting minutes:

• Protocol of the previous meeting was accepted.
• FAIRcontrolGroup could be used as mailing list via wiki change notification. All known candidates should be included in the wiki group initially.
• Discussion of our mission statement
  • The MissionStatement is the agreement about goals of the FAIR Controls Advisory Board that has to be founded in near future.
    • Members: Responsible persons of Accelerator, Experiments and Infrastructure
  • Possible topics:
    • Synergy by standardization of controls in hard- and software
      • Conflict: Tailored solution <-> Frameworked standardization
    • Advantages must be obvious to the collaboration partners:
      • Help in project management, e.g.
        • Collection of primary requirements and their analysis
        • Discussion of solution proposals and risk analysis
        • ...
      • Consulting and access to controls knowledge base
        • Check lists for activities during the life time of projects.
        • ...
      • Communication platform to enhance the attractiveness
        • Organization of meetings and talks
        • Discussion forum
        • This Wiki-Web
      • Development of prototypes to gain experience to prepare:
        • Recommendations of tools and their support.
      • Training for frameworks
      • Design in support
  • The results of the previous topics aim at obtaining mandatory agreements!
• To do list:
  • Contacting of responsible persons and registration for this wiki web.
  • Comparison with existing detectors and solutions.
  • Indication of critical points

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