Proposed Agenda for Applications Interest Group Session

[Robert Hanisch]

Looks like a comprehensive agenda, Tom.

Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas McGlynn" <tam at lheapop.gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: <apps at ivoa.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:53 AM
Subject: Proposed Agenda for Applications Interest Group Session


> Below is skeleton agenda for the Applications Interest Group
> Session at the May interop meeting.  Currently this is
> scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.   Please feel free
> to suggest additional topics or directions, and let
> me know if you have any presentations you would like
> to give.
>
> See you all soon,
> Tom
>
>
> Introductions
>
> Role of the Apps Interest Group
>    - What this group is for?
>    - Does the current charter make sense?
>    - How should the group function?
>    - How do we use the Twiki, mailing list?
>
> Existing VO applications (short presentations by developers)
>    - What VO applications are out there that people can
>      use in doing science?
>         SkyQuery, DIS, GAVO correlator, Spectrum/filter server, VOPlot,
..
>    - What is currently under active development?
>
> What are the obstacles to developing VO applications?
>    - How do existing VO standards help in the existing tools?
>    - Where would it be most helpful to have additional standardized
>      protocols/formats
>
> How can we share software?
>    - Which libraries are currently being used?
>    - Are there other libraries that can be distributed?
>
> Does the VO need any common infrastructure to support application
development?
>    - Standardized documentation
>    - Configuration management
>    - Testing
>    - Portability of applications
>    - SOAP and CGI
>
>
>