ICAT Developer Workshop 25th & 26th August 2009

We welcome you to join a 2-day ICAT developer workshop to be held at Cosener's House, Abingdon, UK on the 25th & 26th August 2009.

A brief outline of the proposed agenda is described below. This will be refined in the coming weeks and we welcome your comments/suggestions in doing this.

Day 1 ---------------------------------------

Overview
What is ICAT?, Capabilities, Model (What information does ICAT store), Interaction Points (web services), Security

ICAT UI + demo
Demo, Architecture, Connection Steps, User mapping

Facility Integration & Maintenance
Users, Authentication, Proposal System, Data, Publications, Adding Instrument Scientists

Installation
Download bundle at code.google.com, Required software, Database installation, ICAT installation

Further development Roadmap and discussion

Day 2 ---------------------------------------
Development
Required software, Development guidelines, Define release cycle, Plan of action in light of further development discussion

Accommodation can also be booked at Cosener's House and there will be a dinner provided on the evening of Tuesday 25th of August. Please follow link below for information regarding room cost, location and other details:

http://www.scitech.ac.uk/About/Find/Coseners/Introduction.aspx

So far, the following people have registered an interest in attending this meeting. Please let me know if you would like to be added/removed from this list.

STFC - Michael Gleaves, Gordon Brown, Kier Hawker, Lakshmi Sastry, Srikanth Nagella, Shirley Crompton, Tom Griffin, Dan Badham
Diamond - Alun Ashton, Tobias Richter, Karl Levik, Mark Bashum, AN Other

ILL - Jean-François Perrin, Holger Gebhard + possibly 1 unknown

PSI - Simon Ebner, Mark Koennecke

University of Sydney - Peter Turner
Soleil - Stephane Poirier, Celine Marechal

Thanks!

Tom