• ESCAPE General Assembly on 29 September, a one day meeting organised, possibility to be an hybrid event f2f and remote, possible location CERN or Amsterdam Airport
    • ESCAPE  Financial  reporting will be one of the main topics. Need reporting from Partners by WP and involvement in the activities. A template will be circulated by Project Management.
  • Data Lake Video/Webinar+Note with the goal to expose the ESCAPE Data Lake in a simple way, goal is to demystify complexity and have a reference where to point to (Ian/Xavi to start draft)
  • Several EOSC meetings last week and this week:
    • 11/06 ESFRI Science Clusters' Long Term Commitments to Open Science: 
      • https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24327/
    • 10/06 EOSC Future Kick-off
    • This week: EOSC Symposium 2021
      • https://www.eoscsecretariat.eu/news-opinion/take-part-eosc-symposium-2021-call-contributions.
        • ESCAPE joint 10' talk rather than the three proposed.
        • Tomorrow 17th June 14:25 – 15:30 Breakout Session 3: Interoperability challenges for thematic communities:
          • ESCAPE interoperability of data and services - Mark Allen, CNRS & ESCAPE
  • FENIX project (https://fenix-ri.eu/). Ian and myself representing ESCAPE in early discussions with the FENIX project.  They are interested in "partnering" with the Science Clusters in Europe.
    • Technical meeting next Monday to Address AAI (IAM as IdP) and FTS3 integration (swift) 
  • WP2 Main focus: DAC21. A special summer is next door. The different activity groups should set direction and pave the way this last weeks before vacation to start representative testing Sep/Oct/Nov for DAC21. Please keep involved our work package colleagues. DAC21 will be a common achievement:
    • WP3 (delivering of Software, calibration files, containers , etc, to compute facilities)
    • WP4 (HiPS storage endpoint)
    • WP5 (ESAPs integration)
  • Next WP2 meetings devoted to track status and address topics/issues from the three DAC21 activities