Mid-term review will take place second half of November 2020.
- The reviewer from the EC reviewer has been appointed.
- Preparations: ~30mins/WP + ~20mins discussion draft to be circulated with project management by Friday 23 October
- E-EB meeting in the first week of November (2-6) to discuss and review the slides of each WP.
Milestones and deliverables:
- M2.3 (M22): Second WP2/DIOS Workshop (virtual event)
  - Proposal: 9th of December
    - At the last meeting we were targeting 26 Nov but WP5 just sent yesterday the agenda for their progress meeting 26-27th November: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/22482/)
- M2.4 (M24): Expanded prototype. Verify experiment data access from compute platforms (including commercial clouds)
  - Heads-up to review storage resources deployed. To evolve data lake infrastructure towards a meaningful size, allowing to scale-up data ingestion and throughput challenges.
FDR exercise dates proposal
- 1st Dress Rehearsal: approx. one week before the workshop (24th Nov)
- 2nd Dress Rehearsal: approx. two weeks after the workshop (15th Dec)
Misc:
- EC-Projects:
  - EOSC-Future (INFRAEOSC03) proposal approved.
  - MECHANICS proposal not approved (interest of ESCAPE was related to the integration of commercial cloud resources)
- PRACE-CERN-GÉANT-SKAO kick-off workshop on High Performance Computing 29 September [agenda]
  - Presentations by Ian, Rosie and myself
- 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)