ESCAPE Periodic Progress Report
- Periodic technical report: draft sent to the GA.
- Mid-term review: ESCAPE mid-term review is expected to take place in November 2020. The mid-term review will be a virtual meeting and exact dates are yet to be finalized.
Milestones and deliverables:
- M2.3 (M22): Second WP2/DIOS Workshop (virtual event)
- M2.4 (M24): Expanded prototype. Verify experiment data access from compute platforms (including commercial clouds)
WP2/DIOS Q42020:
- Focus on preparations for the Dress Rehearsal exercises. Follow-up task work plan.
  - WP2 workshop: best dates on the poll 26th-Nov and 9th-Dec.
  - Dress rehearsals, tentative dates proposal:
    - 1st Dress Rehearsal: one week before the workshop (19th Nov)
    - 2nd Dress Rehearsal: two weeks after the workshop (9th Dec)
- Dedicate one WP2 meeting to have a sites and experiments reports sessions before the end of the year.
- Anything I am forgetting?
Misc:
- PRACE-CERN-GÉANT-SKAO kick-off workshop on High Performance Computing 29 September [agenda]
- Confirmed ESCAPE talks:
  - American Geophysical Union conference:
    - https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting (date not fixed yet: ~1-17 December)
  - PHIDIAS project (13 Oct, webinar):
    - https://www.phidias-hpc.eu/
    - https://www.phidias-hpc.eu/events/webinars/phidias-steps-forward-detection-and-identification-anomalous-atmospheric-events
  - Research Data Alliance (RDA) virtual plenary meeting: Talk + BoF session (date TBD)
    - https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-16th-plenary-meeting-costa-rica-virtual
- Possible contributions:
  - ADDASS (poster call still open): https://adass2020.es (Nov 8-12)