SwissFEL Controls Architecture

["White, Greg" <greg AT slac.stanford.edu>]

Colleagues,

Please find below the agenda for our SwissFEL Controls Architecture meeting 
tomorrow.

Date/time: Friday 12.04.2013, 2:00 pm.
Location: WBGB 20.

Cheers
Greg

Agenda
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0. Preliminaries (5 mins, *Greg*).
   
1. Documentation logistics (15 mins, Greg). 

   Need to decide on the nominal document format for SwissFEL Controls 
documents - 
   which of Plain Text, Word, HTML or even Enriched Text Format, should be 
the standard 
   document format. Plain text is easy; Word is popular with managers but 
cumbersome and
   slow to write and slow to get and read; HTML is fast, allows cross 
referencing,
   but requires a little bit of learning and may be just too big a step for 
the
   organization.

   Note that we have set up a PSI intranet wiki site for document references 
and coordination [1], 
   and an Alfresco document site for documentation storage [2].

2. First look at the development environment of SwissFEL Controls, 85 mins.

   From the SWISSFEL PHYSICS ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT WORK ITEMS [3], part 3, 
we
   should at least attack CVS or SVN, and software distribution. That is,
   whiteboard how a matlab program gets from physicists desktop computer to 
all
   control room consoles, and how SOA middleware is created, distributed and 
hosted.

[1] https://intranet.psi.ch/Swiss_FEL/ControlsArchitecture
[2] 
https://ecm.psi.ch/alfresco/n/browse/workspace/SpacesStore/80127168-064c-4edb-a748-4f3972d55231
[3] 
https://ecm.psi.ch/alfresco/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/1de58a69-0a5a-4a5c-a296-3f427732218a/SwissFELBasicArchitectureAreasAndQuestions.txt