Meeting Notes for 8 March

Present: Liz, Ken, Sudha, Joel, Mark, Tom

Drupal

• Kevin couldn't join the telecon today, but he'll contact Joel with updates by the end of the week. Xeno Media is working on integrating the theme with the groups module.
• As a future task, Liz recalls that the site's webforms still need to be sorted out. Ken used a Google form this year for the CERN HST applications, and that worked acceptably but somewhat clumsily, with document relays among Ken, Marge, and Anne. Ken wonders if we can QuarkNet/Fermilab-brand a Google form to make it look nicer. Sudha will work on using the Drupal Forms module once XM has the new site in a ready enough state.

Cosmic

• International Muon Week is next week, March 13-17. Mark reports 20 sign-ups so far, with more promised.
• Sudha got her instructions for using EQUIP on the RaspberryPi uploaded to the resources page.

Schedule Coordination

Ken points out that QuarkNet participates in multiple yearly events:

• International Muon Week, scheduled by Mark
• International Masterclasses, scheduled by Ken and Uta
• International Cosmic Day, scheduled by Caro at DESY
• World Wide Data Day, scheduled by Ken

Uta will visit ND in September/October of this year; Ken suggests meeting at Fermilab to coordinate these schedules to minimize interference and maximize effectiveness.

CMS/CIMA/iSpy

• Masterclasses are underway. Everything's going well with CIMA and iSpy so far. There are a handful of known quirks and some small problems reported by users, but nothing severe.
• Ken's making a troubleshooting guide to help users navigate the upgrades. Tom will let Ken know what info (OS, browser, etc.) to try to collect when users do report problems.

LIGO

• No news from Joel on e-Lab fixes
• Ken recalls that Amber, the LIGO outreach coordinator, expressed strong interest in maintaining and improving the e-Lab when he and Shane met with her previously. There's particular interest among all in introducing Data Portfolio Tier 4 activities, perhaps involving interferometer data. The developers agree that if we're going to offer the LIGO e-Lab, it should be fully integrated into the Data Portfolio scheme.

Servers

• Major browsers have revoked trust in StartSSL, the Certificate Authority that issued the SSL certificate for www.i2u2.org. Joel obtained replacement certificates from Let's Encrypt and will make them active on i2u2-prod this weekend.
• i2u2-dev now has an SSL certificate installed, so https connections should work on it.

-- Main.JoelG - 2017-03-08

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