StratusLab Kick-Off Meeting

14 juin 2010, 14:00 → 15 juin 2010, 18:00 Europe/Paris

You can find information on getting to LAL and a list of hotels on the LAL website.

Generally, I recommend that people stay in Paris rather than here locally. (There's not so much to do in the evenings and the hotels around the lab are rather isolated.)

The most convenient airport is Orly; it takes about 30' to get to LAL from Orly. Iberia has quite a few flights from there so this may work well for our Spanish partners. It is also easy to get to LAL from CDG, just longer (about 1.5 hours). The third airport (Beauvais) is served primarily by RyanAir and is extremely inconvenient; weigh carefully the pain you'll suffer from choosing Beauvais against the low fares.

lundi 14 juin

14:00 → 15:30 Management (WP1) and Dissemination (WP3)

1. Management (WP1) Cal Loomis
2. Dissemination (WP3) David O'Callaghan
3. Overview of WP
4. Discussion of tasks and allocation of responsibilities

document survey-stratusLab.pdf

slides wp3-dissemination-DOC-20100614.ppt

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:00 Interactions with Targeted Communities (WP2)

20:00 → 23:00 Dinner

We'll be dining at the restaurant Nicolas Flamel. You'll be able to choose from the plates listed in the Menu Gourmande. Please let Cal Loomis know if you have any special requirements for dinner.

The Metro/RER stops nearby are:

• M4: Etienne Marcel
• M3, M11: Arts et Metiers
• M11: Rambuteau
• RER B: Chatlet-Les Halles

The map of the area shows the locations of the stops and the restaurant. The restaurant is a bit hidden on a back street. Be sure to take the address and a map of the area!

mardi 15 juin

10:00 → 11:00 Processes and Procedures (TSCG, WP4)

1- The TSCG description, role and roadmap
2- Proposal and discussion on if and how to apply them to StratusLab as a whole: sprint duration, daily stand-up, etc. Discussion on definition and maintenance of the Product Backlog: user stories, prioritisation, persona, etc.
3- Tooling.

slides TSCG_ONE_ARCH.odp

slides TSCG_ONE_ARCH.pdf

About "the group"

• Agreement on the role, short-term roadmap and process for the group as described in the slides.
  

About Development Process

• Product Owner: The group, being the technical coordinator decision factor in case of conflicts, lack of consensus...
• Sprints: 
  • Public Releases:
    • every 3 months
    • support for releases made in each year, backward compatibility not  guaranteed for release candidates to v1 and v2.
      
  • duration: 3 weeks
    
• Demos: on-line demos attended by the group.
• F2F meetings for before each public release every 3 months.
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11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:30 Processes and Procedures (TSCG, WP4)

1- Overview of OpenNebula, including a mini hands-on tutorial so that all partners can get a clear view of the features and limitations of our starting point
2- Discussion on the StratusLab Architecture, with all the hot topics we've already identified. The idea of this part is to guide the discussion and make progress on the architecture definition. Ideally we should be able to have a first draft and a list of features and gaps...

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Production and Test Infrastructures (WP5)

Activity introduction and goals. Subtasks. Preliminary steps. Interaction with the rest of the activities. Resource allocation. Commitment of resources per partners. Resource requirements from other activities. Planning of subtasks. Preparations for the first deliverable.

slides StratusLab_kick-off_-_WP5.ppt

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:00 Architecture/Advanced Functionality (WP4, WP6)

Open questions:
1- Release planning (ALL) and new features (WP6)
2- Packaging and distribution (WP4/WP5)
3- Reference deployment for acceptance testing (WP4/WP5)
4- Release process (WP4/WP5)

Plan for Architecture Definition (editing: SixSq, UCM, TID; review: ALL):
1- Who does what?
2- How much requirement analysis do we need/can count on for v1?
3- What's the scope of our architecture (e.g. vision y1, y2, y3, y4)?

slides StratusLab-SGEUseCase.ppt