D4SCIENCE-II MEMBERS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The 25 May D4Science-II Members General Assembly took place in Rome, Italy, with the presence of: Andrea Manieri, E-IIS, Donatella Castelli, CNR, Pasquale Pagano, CNR, Fabio Simeoni (representing US on behalf of Richard Connor), Fabrice Brito (representing Terradue on behalf of Pedro Gonçalves), Jessica Michel, ERCIM, Marc Taconet, FAO, Tim Smith, CERN.

Following the agenda, the Members voted to add two representatives to the PMB to include presence of the communities, one loosely referred to as “Biodiversity Scenarios” and the other as “Digital Libraries”. This consultation was accepted as well as the actual representatives, that will be the following: Marc Taconet with Johannes Keizer or Anton Ellenbroek as Deputy for FAO, and Tim Smith or Salvatore Mele for CERN.

The minutes of the meeting can be found on the BSCW
 AGENDA

11:00 – 11:20 Intro (Donatella  Castelli)
11:20 – 11:50 Project status – next steps and other open issues with respect to the reporting to the Commission – QATF reporting (Jessica Michel, and Lino Pagano)
11:50 – 13:30 Discussion about PMB membership and gCore-II  experimentation (chaired by Jessica Michel)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Discussion about the Dissemination and Sustainability plan - design and implementation of it? (chaired by FAO)
15:30 – 17:00 Open Discussion on topics raised by the MGA participants & Agreement on future MGA meetings (chaired by Donatella Castelli)