Thursday, 15 September, 1994 @ 10.00 am
Slough/Heathrow Marriott
The members of the consortium present were as follows: Jean Phillippe Solvay - CAP Gemini, Franck Boissiere - CEC DG3/F5, John Barr - Convex, John Hughes - Convex, Terry O'Brien - ICL, Thomas Bemmerl - Intel, Peter Dzwig - LPAC, Chairman, Neal Quin - LPAC, Matthew Holford - LPAC, who took the minutes, Graham Roberts - UCL, Philip Treleaven - UCL, Russell Winder - UCL, Roger Brewer - Tandem Computers.
Apologies were received from Guiseppe Sardu of Systems and Management and from Gavan Duffy of DEC Ltd.
Frank Boissiere explained the Working Group philosophies. With regard to R and D: There will be no R and D costs. Funding will include 100% of the cooperation costs and the reviewing period will be six months.
The rights and obligations of the partners were outlined with regard to the use of subcontractors.
All the results of the project will belong to the participants and they have the right to commercialise, publish, etc.
Financial provisions - only participants are entitled to be funded and must have written agreement from LPAC and CEC to be able to draw funds from the contract. Most of the costs will be devoted to travel and subsistence (details of this can be found in the Technical Annexe). Durables or consumables are as per the Technical Annexe or prior approval.
There will be three classes of membership: Full Membership, Associate Membership and a mailing list for those who simply wish to be kept informed. At this point it is assumed that everybody will be applying for full membership.
It was suggested that Plenary Meetings would be held twice a year and SIG meetings will be held at the rate of up to six a year. Additional workshops will also be instituted.
The following SIGs were agreed after some discussion: EUROPA ||C++ Architecture SIG, Applications SIG and Implementations SIG.
It was decided that it was necessary to set up the Architecture and Applications SIGs immediately with the Applications Group taking effect after the plenary meeting which the Architecture SIG would have presented at. The Implementations SIG to be deferred.
4.1 It was agreed that contact should be made with groups in both Europe and elsewhere who are currently working on similar projects. Graham Roberts agreed to compile the necessary E-Mail contact list.
Architecture SIG - Russell Winder, Philip Treleaven, John Hughes, John Barr, Bull, DEC, ICL. Philip Treleaven was proposed as the Chairman, to which there were no objections.
Philip Treleaven was asked to appoint a reducteur so that all decisions of the SIG would be recorded in an appropriate form.
Applications SIG - This would be introduced at a later date and it was hoped that CAP would drive it.
LPAC will be providing pages on the World Wide Web. Access to certain areas will be by permission only.
Members were also advised of appropriate mailing addresses and contact points within LPAC following communication problems in both directions.
Franck Boissiere announced that the Project Officer from this point on would be Michael Arentoft - DGIII/F5.
The date of the first Architecture SIG Meeting is to be arranged for early December.
To be arranged.
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